Chariot burial

A car grave (English wagon or chariot burial ) denotes a funeral in the deceased a car was given as an adjunct in the grave. Probably should (usually decomposed ) cars allow the deceased a befitting travel in the afterlife.

Description

Cart diggers come first in the Caucasian- Pontic space in the Maikop culture ( 3700-3000 BC) before, where the very early Radfunde were made. These cars grave tradition, which finds its expression in or under grave mounds of earth and stones, put the Nowotitarowskaja culture (named after the site Nowotitarowskaja ) and the late - Yamnaya or Katakombengrab culture of the steppe continued. The cars are shorter than their about 4 m long tiller, indicating that they - were driven - at least in the context of the funeral ritual. The wheel diameter of 60-80 cm are technically considered good values. On the fixed axis, the cargo area is drawn up very far from the superstructure and overhangs the wheels. Therefore, the car is very reminiscent of recent, only about 3.5 m² Shepherd or Pferchkarren.

A special feature is a 3000 BC dated grave with four wagon wheels from Plachi Dol in Northern Bulgaria, far from the simultaneous steppe tradition. This tradition grab the cultures in ancient China but many centuries later, the Celts and Germans on.

Later cars graves are known from the area of ​​distribution of the Hallstatt and La Tène culture; inter alia, from:

  • Amstetten, Lower Austria ( Hallstatt time )
  • Bastheim, the district of Rhön - grave field ( Hallstatt time )
  • Bell ( Hallstatt time ) ( see vehicle grave of Bell)
  • Böbingen, Pfalz
  • Boé, département of Lot-et -Garonne, France ( spätkeltisch )
  • Demmelsdorf, Landkreis Bamberg ( Hallstatt time )
  • Hallein -Dürr mountain, Salzburg
  • Großeibstadt, the district of Rhön - grave field ( Hallstatt time )
  • Hart an der Alz, Bavaria ( Bronze Age )
  • High village on the Enz, Eberdingen ( Hallstatt time ) (see Keltenmuseum high village)
  • Husby, district of Flensburg ( later pre-Roman Iron Age )
  • Kemnath Oberpfalz ( Hallstatt time )
  • Königsbronn, district of Heidenheim ( late Bronze Age )
  • Künzing, Lower Bavaria ( Hallstatt time )
  • Celtic Village Mitterkirchen Mitterkirchen in Machland, Upper Austria ( Hallstatt time )
  • Neudorf- Görau, Landkreis Lichtenfels
  • Niedererlbach, Lower Bavaria ( frühlatènezeitlich )
  • Nersingen ( Hallstatt time, double horse grave )
  • Poing district of Ebersberg ( Bronze Age )
  • Offenbach- Rumpenheim ( Hallstatt time )
  • Waldalgesheim: Waldalgesheimer princely grave
  • Wehringen district of Augsburg, [ 8 Century BC ]
Grave goods Caucasus Mountains Germanic peoples Lichtenfels, Bavaria Poing, Bavaria Ebersberg (district) Arras culture Yorkshire Viking Age Scania Newbridge chariot
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