Pitted Ware Culture - Graves

Graves

Its grave customs are not well known, but Västerbjers on the island of Gotland has produced a large number of grave fields, where the limestone has preserved the graves well. In these graves, archaeologists found skeletons laid on their backs with well-preserved tools in bone and horn. Numerous imported objects testify to good connections with the Scandinavian mainland, Denmark and Germany.

Read more about this topic:  Pitted Ware Culture

Famous quotes containing the word graves:

    Lovers, the conclusion is
    Doubled sighs and jealousies
    In a single heart that grieves
    For lost honour among thieves.
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)

    After, when they disentwine
    You from me and yours from mine,
    Neither can be certain who
    Was that I whose mine was you.
    To the act again they go
    More completely not to know.
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)

    There’s a cool web of language winds us in,
    Retreat from too much joy or too much fear:
    We grow sea-green at last and coldly die
    In brininess and volubility.
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)