Archaeology breakthrough as 5,000-year-old sacrifices found in Europe | History | News
Germany’s ongoing Sugostlink is one of the largest infrastructure businesses in the country, designed to carry electricity from Northern Germany to Bavaria in the Southeast, to Bavaria in the Southeast. However, along the 105 -mile -long transmission route, Germany gives some of the most impressive and amazing archaeological findings of Germany over the years.
Now, archaeologists have revealed a dozen 5,000-year-old sacrifice pit near Gerstewitz in Saxony-Anhalt, offering old ritual practices a memorable idea. The first studies associated the culture of the pits, the graves of ceremonies with a culture (3400 to 3050 BC), a person who seems to reflect a violent and difficult world. This funnel gehe culture, known for its unique grave traditions, often placed the dead in crowning positions under the ruins of pottery pieces and burned houses. In these graves, partial skeleton reds and even the skulls were discovered.
The researchers revealed 12 deep, circular pits, each placed in a trench system – each of which was seven to 10 feet wide and up to eight feet depth. These pits kept the charred ruins of the buildings, probably the full ceramic ships used as sacrificial offers and bones from both animals and humans.
Especially a stunning, still in anatomical position and showing symptoms of fever damage, there were remains of a dog next to a solid human skull. The opposite conditions propose extended or gradient graves, which perhaps the temporarily shown or storage of the ruins before their last graves.
“This shows that the pits remain open during long ceremonies or that dog bones are kept elsewhere for a long time” announced in a statement.
In fact, a transformed oven pit revealed the burial of two people who were separated elsewhere before resting, and at the same time pointed to a deliberate, multi -phase ceremony process.
Archaeologists think that the culture of the process reflects the harsh period in which the culture lives. Both physical artifacts and climatological data show that Central Europe witnesses more cool and more irregular weather in the late 4th millennium BC. This would significantly affect the agricultural communities such as Salzm.
Meanwhile, another Neolithic group, known as the Bernburg culture, began to expand from the north to the region during this time, and probably added more stress on both community and local resources.
“Apparently the rituals they seek to support their ancestors can be understood during this crisis,” he said.
In 1921, archaeologists first discovered the evidence of his culture in his secretion, and since then, they have documented multiple sites connected to the group.
