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unusual facts about burial mounds



Oldendorfer Totenstatt

The Oldendorfer Totenstatt is a group of six burial mounds and megalith sites in Oldendorf north of Amelinghausen in the valley of the River Luhe in Lüneburg district in the German state of Lower Saxony.

Pongrac

An Early Iron Age burial ground has been identified in the northwestern part of the settlement, part of a burial ground extending to Sveti Lovrenc in the adjacent Municipality of Prebold and numbering over 180 burial mounds.

Vix Grave

The area around the village of Vix in northern Burgundy, France is the site of an important prehistoric complex from the Celtic Late Hallstatt and Early La Tène periods, comprising an important fortified settlement and several burial mounds.


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A'ali

A'ali is famous for its ancient burial mounds, especially defined by several very large burial mounds in the middle of the city centre.

Bellahøj

The park also contains three or four burial mounds from the Bronze Age.

Decalogue Stone

Newark Holy Stones, a set of artifacts, including a Decalogue and stone box, allegedly discovered within a cluster of ancient Indian burial mounds near Newark, Ohio.

Elmalı

Excavations, by Machteld Mellink from Bryn Mawr College, of the burial mounds of Semahöyük and Müren have shown signs of copper production dating back to 2500 BC.

Łęki Małe, Greater Poland Voivodeship

Close to the village are a series of burial mounds (kurgans) dating from the Bronze Age, sometimes referred to as the "Polish pyramids".

Marija Gimbutas

In 1956 Gimbutas introduced her Kurgan hypothesis, which combined archaeological study of the distinctive Kurgan burial mounds with linguistics to unravel some problems in the study of the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) speaking peoples, whom she dubbed the "Kurgans"; namely, to account for their origin and to trace their migrations into Europe.

Phyllis Morse

Additionally, on retirement, the Quapaw tribe presented them with colorful tribal blankets in honor of the sensitive work that had been undertaken on their ancestors’ burial mounds.