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| Kissing Beakers? Via Hessenschau |
Here's the video on Hesse by Hessenschau. I believe the above is a woman and a child.
German documentaries on Bell Beakers always have the ominous background music with a burning map. Awesome!
And some text to go with it [here].
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| Hessen Beakers? (via Hessenschau - Bild © Sascha Piffko - Archäologische Untersuchungen) |
They suspect plague or flu wiped out a family, but DNA is submitted to be sure how these folks relate to each other. I'm not sure who the other 18 individuals are, and older layer? Other Beakers? Hopefully a German speaker can clarify.
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| A pot snip from Hessenschau |
Don't get too wrapped up in periodization or dating. It's a news article.
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| "Das Baugebiet liegt in Hanau-MittelbuchenBild © Sascha Piffko - Archäologische Untersuchungen" via Hessenschau |
This is in Hanau-Mittelbuchen in Hesse, West-central Germany. The cemetery is a rescue work so the archaeologists are running to get everyone out of the ground before the housing development goes up. I guess that's the nature of the beast in a place like Europe.
See also:
Der Standard
The kind of burial and the provisional dating (5000 bp) are interesting for a Bell Beaker settlement in the very midst of Central Europe. We'll see.
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing it's just a big round number, like first half of the third millennium. Hopefully the archaeologists will publish a paper and include some quality photographs, and of course the dates.
DeleteThe video says it's a man with a young woman, with a child at little distance.
ReplyDeleteMost is about what they don't know yet.
Kind regards, Toos