Houses of living and houses of dead in the Neolithic and Copper Age of Central Europe

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Houses of living and houses of dead in the Neolithic and Copper Age of Central Europe

Original language description

One of symbolic roles of Neolithic long houses in central Europe might have been burial of ancestors. There is no hard evidence for the funerary function of long houses, however, it is commonly assumed (BRADLEY 2000). Already during their dwelling function some houses were possibly used for primary deposition of remains of ancestors. The burials were later in the time of abandonment of the house removed elsewhere or remained resting inside the building. This is the process of transformation from the house of living to the house of dead. This paper is presenting an outline of the origin and development of burial mounds in Central Europe during the Neolithic and Eneolithic Periods. In the first part of the paper I am considering the possible interpretations for the origin of barrows in the context of dying Neolithic longhouses. The main purpose of the second part of the paper is to discuss the question on missing evidence of barrows of the late Eneolithic Corded Ware and Bell Beaker period in Central Europe. Variety of problems of demographic representation of cemeteries, burial customs and spatial structure of funerary areas are connected to the missing barrows. I emphasise the variability of late Eneolithic funerary monuments, including the discussion on burial chambers and circular ditches, yet another type of funerary construction without an earthed mound that may be described as houses of dead.

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Fonctions, utilisations et représentations de l'espace dans les sépultures monumentales du Néolithique européen Functions, uses and representations of space in the monumental graves of Neolithic Europe

ISBN

979-10-320-0048-9

Number of pages of the result

23

Pages from-to

245-267

Number of pages of the book

372

Publisher name

Presses Universitaires de Provence

Place of publication

Aix en Provence

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