TWO SKELETON GRAVES FROM NEOLITHIC SETTLEMENTS IN MORAVIA (CZECH REPUBLIC)

In the region of Moravia, as well as all over central Europe, Neolithic farmers (5700–4500 BC) developed specific cultural behaviours – these are recorded in the earliest history of this territory and reflected also in the burial rite variations. For the first time in early human history, Neolithic...

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Published in:Anthropologie (Brno) 2006-01, Vol.44 (2), p.127-138
Main Author: DOCKALOVA, Marta
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age
Children
Cults, religions and funeral rites
Ethnology and art
Funerary rituals
Generalities
Graves
Human paleontology
Humeral fractures
Mankind origin and evolution
Methodology and general studies
ORIGINAL PAPERS • TRAVAUX ORIGINAUX • ORIGINALARBEITEN
Paleoanthropology
Pottery
Prehistory and protohistory
Skeleton
Skull
Skull fractures
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Summary:In the region of Moravia, as well as all over central Europe, Neolithic farmers (5700–4500 BC) developed specific cultural behaviours – these are recorded in the earliest history of this territory and reflected also in the burial rite variations. For the first time in early human history, Neolithic people started to systematically bury their dead. This was manifested by the existence of skeleton burial grounds, founded near their settlements, but also by burying the dead in the settlements themselves. Two cases of settlement burials from Moravia (Mašovice – Culture with Linear Pottery, Těšetice – Culture with Moravian Painted Pottery) evidence the existence of burial rites (Rulf 1996), as well as of religious ideas of Neolithic people.
ISSN:0323-1119
2570-9127