67 Early Cremation
In the late Neolithic period, burial customs changed in northern Germany. Instead of burial chambers, people now buried their dead in individual graves with mounds of earth heaped over them. This is why this second Neolithic culture in northern Germany is called the single grave culture. Normally, the dead were buried unburnt during this period; however, only cremated graves were discovered at the Hamburg-Lohbrügge cemetery. The typical cups, which are usually found as grave goods, servedas urns for the cremated remains. The custom of cremation burial probably reached the north from the Hungarian lowlands via Bohemia.
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Urn with Cremation
Age: 2800 - 2200 v. Chr. Neolithic period
Neolithic period: In the Neolithic period, people began for the first time to actively shape and change their environment: sedentarisation was one of the essential prerequisites for civilisational progress. Farmers cleared forests for their settlements, fields and for keeping livestock. They built their farms out of wooden posts, wattle and daub and clay. Cattle, pigs, goats and sheep are recorded as domestic animals. The diet of the people was now enriched by cereals such as wheat and barley, which were cultivated on farmland.
Material: Ceramics
Location: HH-Lohbrügge
Urn with Cremation
Age: 2800 - 2200 v. Chr. Neolithic period
Neolithic period: In the Neolithic period, people began for the first time to actively shape and change their environment: sedentarisation was one of the essential prerequisites for civilisational progress. Farmers cleared forests for their settlements, fields and for keeping livestock. They built their farms out of wooden posts, wattle and daub and clay. Cattle, pigs, goats and sheep are recorded as domestic animals. The diet of the people was now enriched by cereals such as wheat and barley, which were cultivated on farmland.
Material: Ceramics
Location: HH-Lohbrügge