Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries 1-2 (November 2009)

The Niersen Beaker burial: A renewed study of a century-old excavation

Quentin Bourgeois, Luc Amkreutz, Raphaël Panhuysen

Keywords: Niersen, Holwerda, Late Neolithic, burial mound, Bell Beaker, physical anthropology, barrows, burial chamber, animal bones, disarticulated remains, secondary burial.


Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Discovery and rediscovery
2.1 In Her Majesty’s service: discovery
2.2 The lifting of the grave
2.3 Rediscovery and attempts at modern analyses
3 Human remains
3.1 Observations in the field: 1907
3.2 Observations in the laboratory: 1907
3.3 Description of the human remains: 2009
3.4 The crouched burial: taphonomy
3.5 Physical anthropological examination
3.6 Disarticulated human remains
4 A Re-evaluation of the grave and the burial mound
4.1 The burial mound
4.2 Secondary graves
4.3 The surrounding feature
4.4 A wooden burial chamber
4.5 A second primary grave?
4.6 Pre-barrow activities?
4.7 Dating of the barrow and the burials
5 Conclusion
6 Acknowledgements
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