TRBritueel

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

Much of what we have from the Funnelbeakers material culture, is from what was deposited in bogs. A wide range of objects are found in the peat, the soil that swamps turned into over the centuries; from pottery, to animal skulls, to flint stone – either beautiful flint axes or blades, or even just the raw material. We don’t know anything about the belief system of the Funnelbeaker people. The way that certain objects are clustered together and the frequency with which they were deposited, does suggest that they were possibly offered to the water.

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Depicted here is an artistic impression of such an offering.

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Drenthe region is famous for its bog bodies, naturally mummified bodies of people that have often been sacrificed. These bog bodies are from a much later time period, from the late bronze age and iron age, and from a much different culture.