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Excavated dolmen in Sweden one of the oldest in Scandinavia (phys.org)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Last summer, archaeologists from Gothenburg University and Kiel University excavated a dolmen, a stone burial chamber, in Tiarp near Falköping in Sweden. The archaeologists judge that the grave has remained untouched since the Stone Age. First analysis results now confirm that the grave in Tiarp is one of the oldest stone burial chambers in Sweden.

"It's an early grave which dates to the Early Neolithic period, about 3500 BCE," says archaeologist Karl-Göran Sjögren. However, the odd thing is that parts of the skeletons of the people buried are missing.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Got any good book recommendations to learn more?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

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.