Stone box graves were a method of burial used by Native Americans of the Mississippian culture in the Midwestern United States and the Southeastern United States. Their construction was especially common in the Cumberland River Basin, in settlements found around present-day Nashville, Tennessee.
Stoneboxgraves were a method of burial used by Native Americans of the Mississippian culture in the Midwestern United States and the Southeastern United...
passage grave or passage tomb consists of one or more burial chambers covered in earth or stone and having a narrow access passage made of large stones. These...
tombstone, or gravestone is a marker, usually stone, that is placed over a grave. Especially old or elaborate stone slabs may be called a funeral stele, stela...
single large stone. Multiple burials could occur all at one time, the grave could be reopened several times to accept new burials, or the grave could remain...
A tumulus (pl.: tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds or (in Siberia and...
such as pottery and stone and metal tools, but organic objects that have since decayed were also placed in ancient tombs. If grave goods were to be useful...
Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος néos 'new' and λίθος líthos 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe...
The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The...
from stone tiled kurgans (Central Kazakhstan)"/"Nomads", Vol. 1, Pavlodar EKO, 2006, ISBN 978-9965-635-21-2 (in Russian) Kazakevich V.A., "Grave statues...
A stone tool is, in the most general sense, any tool made either partially or entirely out of stone. Although stone tool-dependent societies and cultures...
Russia, where there was no well-defined Copper Age between the Stone and Bronze ages. Stone tools were still predominantly used during this period. The archaeological...
minutes and 3 seconds) Nancy Owano, Scotland lunar-calendar find sparks Stone Age rethink, Phys.org, 27 July 2013 Archived 9 August 2013 at the Wayback...
corbelled passage grave with a single burial chamber linked to the entrance by a short passage and covered with a cairn of stones, with the entrances...
In archaeology, a tool stone is a type of stone that is used to manufacture stone tools, or tools that use stone as raw material. Generally speaking,...
of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age. It spans the time from around 3.3 million years ago when the first evidence for stone tool production and use by...
exaggerated as befitted a national hero: "Long and long after he was quiet in his grave, his terrible battle-axe, with twenty English pounds of English steel in...
carved or ground stone. The holes are typically 1⁄4" to 3⁄4" in diameter and extend through a raised portion centered in the stone. They usually are...
tomb Mummy Passage grave Rectangular dolmen Ring cairn Simple dolmen Stoneboxgrave Tor cairn Unchambered long cairn Other cultural Archaeoastronomy sites...
tomb Mummy Passage grave Rectangular dolmen Ring cairn Simple dolmen Stoneboxgrave Tor cairn Unchambered long cairn Other cultural Archaeoastronomy sites...
in it are known. They are common in the gallery graves of the Seine-Oise-Marne culture. Portal stones are a pair of Megalithic orthostats, usually flanking...
Stone carving is an activity where pieces of rough natural stone are shaped by the controlled removal of stone. Owing to the permanence of the material...
tomb Mummy Passage grave Rectangular dolmen Ring cairn Simple dolmen Stoneboxgrave Tor cairn Unchambered long cairn Other cultural Archaeoastronomy sites...
that would not be often called Epipalaeolithic today. This left stone-lined pit graves containing implements of bone, such as harpoon and javelin heads...
grave. During the period, 3900–3500 BC, more than 390 court cairns were built in Ireland and over 100 in southwest Scotland. The Neolithic (New Stone...
A stone circle is a ring of standing stones. Most are found in Northwestern Europe – especially in Britain, Ireland, and Brittany – and typically date...
and were commonly made out of flint, obsidian, or harder material such as stone knives, and later with metal such as bronze and copper. Additionally, the...
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