BuckyE wrote: tomwatts wrote: I'm trying to envisage something that could precede the long barrows/stone rows of Dartmoor etc...
Just been reading Barry Cunliffe's EUROPE BETWEEN THE OCEANS, 9,000 BC -- AD 1,000. Fascinating disccussion therein about the MESOlithic occupants of Brittany and Portugal accumulating huge shell middens. In which they apparently buried some few of their relatives.
Page 83: "This surprisingly sophisticated practice of collective burial lies at the beginning of a tradition that was to flourish in the region over the next two thousand years, later manifesting itself in monumental megalithic tombs."
Neato!
The Mesolithic middens on Oronsay also saw deposits of hands andd feet but not entire individuals .
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