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- Title
The Chronology of Danish Dolmens. Results from <sup>14</sup>C Dates on Human Bones.
- Authors
Sjögren, Karl-Göran; Fischer, Anders
- Abstract
The thousands of dolmens and long barrows spread across the Danish landscape are the earliest long-lasting expressions of architectural monumentality in Scandinavia. A series of new AMS dates on human skeletal material from several of them leads to a clarification of the generations-long debate on the relative chronology and typological evolution of this group of monuments. Earthen long barrows were raised from ca. 3700calBC. That is at least two centuries later than the arrival of such elements of the Neolithic world as funnel beaker pottery and domestic cattle to the region. The practice of using large stones (megaliths) for burial chambers was present by 3600calBC. Classical Urdolmen were built alongside various types of more complex dolmen chambers during the period ca. 3600–3400calBC, after which passage graves were erected.
- Subjects
SCANDINAVIA; DENMARK; ARCHAEOLOGICAL research; DOLMENS; MONUMENTS; TOMBS; HUMAN beings; POTTERY; NEOLITHIC Period; CATTLE
- Publication
Journal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2023, Issue 25, p1
- ISSN
2364-3676
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12766/jna.2023.1