Archaeologists In Germany Discovered Two 6,000-Year-Old Burial Mounds Separated By What Was Likely A Ceremonial Walkway, Shedding Light On Funerary Rituals During The Neolithic Era

The later burial is linked to the Globular Amphora culture, which thrived around 3300 to 2800 B.C. Other burials from the culture have been found throughout prehistoric Europe.

More mounds, this time associated with the Corded Ware culture, which lived around 2800 to 2050 B.C., were dug up at the site. They came about 1,000 years later than the burial with the cattle.

Evidence suggests that the area was important to ancient people for a long period of time. The Neolithic burials from different periods showed that the site was consistently used for rituals. They even provided information on how sacrifice was used during burial rituals.

Excavations will be ongoing until April, and hopefully, archaeologists will come across even more intriguing finds from the Neolithic era and beyond!