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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.
Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.
The discipline involves surveying, excavation, and eventually analysis of data collected, to learn more about the past. In broad scope, archaeology relies on cross-disciplinary research. Read more...
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Funnel beaker culture then? The dolman points to that as well as the date, I think.
I don't know though. I just like prehistory.
EDIT: No mention of grave goods, though the article mentions that the dolman is not typical of the passage graves found around 200 years later.
I find this region fascinating because it lies on the outskirts of the Neolithic farmer expansion (and other explanations from the East), so the arising culture seems to be more of a conversation between new cultures and preexisting cultures.
The megalithic neolithic Atlantic culture that seems to stretch from Portugal to Scandinavia is fascinating too.
Got any good book recommendations to learn more?
I wish! I'd appreciate a good book incorporating recent archaeology and DNA contributions.
I've found Dan Davis' YT channel to be pretty good. He's a novelist, so not academic, but because he has written books in the era he has done a lot to synthesize data and his YT channel is him getting into his source material.