Abstract
Abstract
Highlights
The Linearbandkeramik (LBK, c. 5500–4950 cal BC) is considered one of the few examples of a Neolithic culture with an individualised, clearly gendered and elaborate mortuary tradition (Robb & Harris 2018)
LBK cemeteries are concentrated in Central Europe, and sometimes contain several hundred individuals (Bickle & Whittle 2013a)
In Alsace, for example, Bickle et al (2013b: 301) suggest that voids in grave fills created by perishable internal structures are a late LBK development
Summary
The Linearbandkeramik (LBK, c. 5500–4950 cal BC) is considered one of the few examples of a Neolithic culture with an individualised, clearly gendered and elaborate mortuary tradition (Robb & Harris 2018). The second category of mortuary treatment (referred to here as the ‘irregular’ burial type) is represented by three headless individuals (G4/S21, G12/S23, G13/S23; Figure 3.1–2 & 3.5), who were each placed in an extended position at the bottom of the outer ditch. Their deposition seems to have coincided with, or immediately post-dated, the re-cutting of the ditch. Broken clavicles are common, the specific fracture type exhibited by the two Vráble individuals (Robinson’s Type 1B and 2B1) is today usually associated with sporting activity or violence (Robinson 1998) One of these individuals (G13/S23) probably had a healed fracture affecting the right fifth metacarpal (Figure 4.2). The timespan covered by these crouched burials, is too short for the order of the burials to be determined unequivocally
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