TRBuitvaart

Fri, 31 Dec 2021 17:34:27 +0100

Though we do not know anything about the belief system of the Hunebedbuilders, we do know that the impressive Hunebedden (dolmen) were made to burry people in. The ones that you are used to seeing dotted around the landscape are the bare stone structures, but back in the day they were covered with a mound of earth.

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Hunebedden were not built for one single grave. Once it was constructed, it was used for even several hundred years, burials kept being added.

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There is no sign of hierarchy among the Funnelbeaker burials, as opposed to burials in the following cultures, suggesting that they did not have a social structure with an important individual or house of power ruling over substitutes, but a likely a more egalitarian social organization.