Video 6 Why did people build Ritual Monuments? Flashcards
Reasoning theory: monuments are territorial markers
Early farming communities concept of territory started to become important
Why can’t monuments being territorial markers be the sole reason for monument creation?
Distribution of megaliths in relation to probable territories
What culture made the Hunebeds?
The TRB
Theory of why we only find megaliths and other monuments in the west
Zone where indigenous people lived, took over domesticated plants+animals (contact with Bandkeramik) -> First monuments indigenous imitations Bandkeramik houses -> Transformation former houses living into houses of dead (ancestral importance)
Cerny farming culture
Regional culture, direct successor Bandkeramik Culture
What supports the theory that monuments had an ancestral importance (also supporting the theory that they were Bankeramik imitations) (3)
- Farmers built upon deeds of predecessors who reclaimed landscape and prepared it for farming
- Often burials and cremation remains in monuments
- Examples of monuments built on former Bandkeramik houses