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<< Our Photo Pages >> Gräberfeld Eulau - Misc. Earthwork in Germany in Saxony-Anhalt

Submitted by Klingon on Friday, 28 August 2009  Page Views: 16561

Multi-periodSite Name: Gräberfeld Eulau
Country: Germany
NOTE: This site is 3.232 km away from the location you searched for.

Land: Saxony-Anhalt Type: Misc. Earthwork
Nearest Town: Naumburg (Saale)  Nearest Village: Eulau
Latitude: 51.165870N  Longitude: 11.845460E
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Gräberfeld Eulau submitted by Klingon : Remains of the excavation. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Misc. Earthwork in Saxony-Anhalt. In an industrial sandpit some neolithic graves were found. The 4400 years old enclosure contains family graves, channel graves and some single graves from the Corded Ware culture people.

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Exhuming a violent event by Andy B on Friday, 28 August 2009
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Thirteen people who perished around 4,600 years ago still have something to say about life and death in prehistoric Europe.

Analyses of their skeletal remains, found in 2005 in four large graves at a German Neolithic-era site called Eulau, provide a rare opportunity to reconstruct a lethal encounter from Europe’s Corded Ware culture, say anthropologist Christian Meyer of the University of Mainz in Germany and his colleagues. Between about 4,800 and 4,000 years ago, Corded Ware farmers and cattle-raisers spread across central and eastern Europe.

Reconstruction of the events at Eulau also offers a rare peek into the motivation for putting two or more bodies in the same grave, the researchers report in a paper published online August 15 in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. Little is known about several dozen similar Corded Ware graves that have been excavated.

The 13 men, women and children whose remains were unearthed at Eulau in 2005 apparently stayed behind unprotected when their fellow villagers briefly left for some reason. Unknown attackers then killed them with bows, arrows and stone axes, the researchers report.

After the attackers left, villagers returned to find their compatriots murdered. Four large graves were dug close together, each containing a carefully arranged group of two to four people. Genetic evidence, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2008, suggests that one grave held a nuclear family — a man, a woman and their two children. The man was placed beside an 8- to 9-year-old boy, while the woman was next to a 4- to 5-year-old boy.
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Grave giftsVillagers placed three stone axes typical of the Neolithic Corded Ware culture next to certain individuals buried at Germany's Eulau site.State Museum of Prehistory, Halle, Germany

Other graves at the site probably contained biologically related adults and children, in the scientists’ view. Villagers also put pottery and stone artifacts in the graves.

“Until now, it was only possible to speculate about the significance of these graves and who was included in them,” Meyer says.

At Eulau, as at several previously excavated Neolithic mass graves, “the attackers seem to have been members of the same cultural group, perhaps neighbors,” remarks anthropologist T. Douglas Price of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

In the 2008 paper, Meyer’s group reported that mitochondrial and nuclear DNA extracted from the Eulau skeletons identified a biological family in one grave and a pair of siblings in another. Chemical profiles of the Eulau individuals’ teeth, which indicate what they ate early in life, suggested that only the men and children had been raised locally.

That fits with a social structure in which descent was traced through the father’s line and men paired with women who came from other groups, the researchers say.

Five of the Eulau skeletons—two men, two women and a boy—display head and bodily injuries caused by a violent attack, the team reports in their new paper. Two stone arrowheads were found with one woman’s skeleton. Other violent injuries may have escaped notice because all 13 of the skeletons have lain in blocks of soil at a German museum since their discovery, making a complete analysis impossible.

Both slain Eulau men had also suffered left-arm damage from earlier falls that interfered with wrist and hand movement. Meyer speculates that, because of those infirmities, the men had stayed behind with women and children the day the raid occurred.

A 7,000-year-old Neolithic mass grave in southern Germany includes a man, a women, two children and an older women who were buried together and probably formed a biological family, notes anthropologist R. Alexander Bentley of Durham University in England. Dental data indicate that the grave contains no local women, who were pres

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Re: Gräberfeld Eulau by Anonymous on Wednesday, 26 November 2008
I would like to know how deep they were found ? How many in total ?
and where their any artifact or link to see on this subject. please.

Pierre
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Re: The world's oldest nuclear family discovered by DrewParsons on Tuesday, 25 November 2008
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The supplementary notes to the original academic paper (Ancient DNA, Strontium isotopes, and Osteological analysis shed light on social and kinship organization of the Later Stone Age, W. Haak et al 2008) give the actual yDNA STR alleles and consequent haplotypes for the male members of the group. Interestingly my personal yDNA results match 8/13 with those of one of the group. Of the 5 alleles that are not exact matches each is just one genetic step separated from my results. In the analysis of contemporary modern day yDNA such matches would suggest a distant ethnic connection. The matching alleles for the technically minded are:
DYS393=13; DYS456=16; DYS458=15; DYS389i=13; DYS391=10;
DYS437=14; DYS390=25; DYS385b=14; DYS448=19.
Mismatches are (my figures first and the ancient ones in brackets):
DYS391=10(11); DYS19=15 (16); DYS438=12 (11); DYS385a=10 (11)
DYS389ii=31 (30).
There are almost as close matches with others in the ancient group.
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The world's oldest nuclear family discovered by Andy B on Monday, 24 November 2008
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Evidence that the nuclear family dates back to the Stone Age has been unearthed for the first time by scientists.

An international team of researchers, including experts from the University of Bristol, have discovered a burial site containing a number of closely related adults and children that is more than 4,600 years old - making it the oldest example of a "family" ever found.

The graves contained groups of men, women and children buried facing each other, which was an unusual practice in Neolithic culture.

One of the graves contained a female, a male and two children, which the researchers, using DNA analysis, established were a mother, father and their two sons aged around eight or nine and four or five years old.

They say this is the oldest evidence of a nuclear family in the world.

The skeletons, discovered and excavated at Eulau, in central Germany, were also unusual for the way in which they were buried.

The remains of 13 individuals were found in total and all had been buried simultaneously.

Several pairs of individuals were buried face-to-face with arms and hands interlinked and all the burials contained children ranging from new-borns up to 10 years of age and adults of around 30 years or older. Many showed injuries that indicated they were the victims of a violent raid.

One female had a stone projectile point embedded in one of her vertebra and another had skull fractures.

Several bodies also had defence injuries to the forearms and hands.

The researchers used state-of-the-art genetics and isotope techniques to determine the relationships of the dead.

In an article published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences lead author Dr Wolfgang Haak of the University of Adelaide said: "By establishing the genetic links between the two adults and two children buried together in one grave, we have established the presence of the classic nuclear family in a prehistoric context in Central Europe - to our knowledge the oldest authentic molecular genetic evidence so far.

More, with photo in the Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3472427/The-worlds-oldest-nuclear-family-discovered.html

Also at the BBC World Service, listen to an interview with the scientists that have discovered genetic evidence of first ‘nuclear family’ buried together 4,600 years ago in Eastern Germany.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/science_in_action.shtml
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