Secondary burial

The Nachbestattung is a prehistoric grave in plants of all kinds from the Neolithic period established, especially frequent in megaliths and barrows appearance.

Description

Clearly visible above-ground buildings and artificial hills have been used (even in later times, often even much later cultures ) for burials, bone or cremated depositions ( in polls ). These younger depositions, in whatever form, called the archaeologist burials. They find themselves at grave hills mostly in areas that may have been at the same time also excessive. For larger dolmen, passage tombs, stone boxes, etc. is usually a more timely re-use of the interior space available (eg through the Kugelamphoren culture ( CEC) ), possibly also accompanied by removal or application of secondary boards ( megalithic tombs of Hagestad ). The hills of the covered with earth megaliths were re-used for similar shape as the grave mound.

The subsequent uses of the individual grave and Bell Beaker culture were made in the upper part of fill of the grave chamber, and the access to the site was made in the rule from above by force. These were strangers who had no connection to the grave idea of ​​the builders of the megaliths. The destructive nature of the intervention suggests that it is not always acted to regular burials.

A distinction is Nachbestattung from the continuous use of natural caves, even if it falls in the same historical period, since this is not about building monuments. A distinction is also from the widespread during the pre-and early history of the custom of secondary burial.