The Neolithic Age may be something of a misnomer, falsely offering stone rather than perishable wood as the period’s primary building material, but its monumental architectures sure make a compelling counterpoint. England has massive stone circles, France rows of upright megaliths, and Poland, somewhat less famously, pyramids.
Also known as Giant’s Graves or Kujawian mounds, after the area in northwestern Poland where they were first identified in the mid-1930s, the pyramids were megalithic tombs built in the 4th millennium B.C.E. to house the remains of a single important community figure. Less dramatic than their later Egyptian equivalents, the pyramids were built by agricultural settlers in the dense forests of Central Europe and take the form of elongated triangular earth mounds lined with massive stones.
ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE UNCOVERED A PREHISTORIC GRAVE CONTAINING 169 GOLD RINGS NEAR THE BIHARIA COMMUNE IN BIHOR COUNTY, CRIȘANA, ROMANIA.
The discovery was made during construction works for a new road that connects the city of Oradea with the A3 highway.
Excavations were conducted from march till the end of June by a multi-national team representing institutions from across Romania and Hungary, revealing three sites from the Neolithic Period, two from the middle to late Bronze Age, two from the Roman Period, and two sites from the Middle Ages.
In a press release announced by the Tarii Crisurilor Museum, archaeologists excavating near Biharia found the grave of a woman belonging to the Tiszapolgár culture.
The Tiszapolgár culture (4500–4000 BC), was an Eneolithic archaeological culture of the Great Hungarian Plain, the Banat, Crișana and Transylvania, Eastern Slovakia, and the Ukrainian Zakarpattia Oblast in Central Europe. READ MORE...
