Stereotype The role of grave sets in Corded Ware and Bell Beaker funerary practices

• Main Author: Wentink, Karsten (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden Sidestone Press 2020
• Subjects: Prehistoric archaeology; funerary archaeology; Bell Beaker culture; Corded Ware Culture; Late Neolithic; material culture studies; functional analysis; grave sets; social theory; identity; death; ritual; depositional practices; beaker; early metalworking; burial mounds; barrows; object biographies; categorization; presentation of self; usewear
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Throughout northern Europe, thousands of burial mounds were erected in the third millennium BCE. Starting in the Corded Ware culture, individual people were being buried underneath these mounds, often equipped with an almost rigid set of grave goods. This practice continued in the second half of the...