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The unchambered long barrow[1][2][3] earthen long barrow,[1][3] non-megalithic long barrow[2][3] or non-megalithic mound[4] (German: kammerloses Hünenbett or Hünenbett ohne Kammer), is a type of long barrow found across the British Isles, in a belt of land in Brittany, and in northern Europe as far east as the River Vistula (the Niedźwiedź type graves - NTT). The term "unchambered" means that there is no stone chamber within the stone enclosure. In Great Britain they are often known as non-megalithic long barrows or unchambered long cairns.
Since the 1980s, barrows of the Passy type, part of the Cerny culture,[5][6] have been discovered in the French département of Essonne in the Paris Basin. These are not, however, megalithic structures.
Neolithic monuments are an expression of the culture and ideology of neolithic communities. Their emergence and function are a hallmark of social development.[7]
- ^ a b Masset, Claude (1997). Les Dolmens, Errance, pp. 39 and 172
- ^ a b Long Barrows at www.eng-h.gov.uk. Accessed on 18 Aug 2013
- ^ a b c Lynch (1997), p. 25.
- ^ Megalithisches Lexikon at www.stonepages.de. Accessed on 18 Aug 2013
- ^ Claude Constantin, Daniel Mordant, Daniel Simonin (eds.) 1997. La Culture de Cerny. Nouvelle economie, nouvelle societe au Neolithique. Actes de Colloque International de Nemours, 9-11 Mai 1994. Memoires du Musee de Prehistoire d'Ile-de-France 6, Nemours: Association pour la Promotion de Recherche, Archeologique en Ile-de-France; 2-90616013-X
- ^ http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/neolithic/index.html Zitat: "A salvage excavation determined that these lines were in fact man-made ditches dating to the Neolithic, some more than 600 feet long and terminating in circular areas"
- ^ J. Müller In: Varia neolithica VI 2009 p. 15