Großsteingräber bei Wersen, Neolithic passage graves in Lotte, Germany.
Großsteingräber bei Wersen consists of two remaining Neolithic burial chambers made from large stones, called Kleine Sloopsteine and Große Sloopsteine. The first is a shorter chamber while the second extends much further, both built with impressive stone walls that still stand today.
These tombs were built during the Funnel Beaker culture around 5000 years ago. Pottery pieces and stone tools discovered in the chambers show that people used this burial ground repeatedly over many generations.
These burial sites reveal how early communities treated their dead as a group, reflecting their social bonds and shared beliefs about the afterlife. The way the tombs were built and used shows how important collective identity was to these societies.
You can walk directly into both chambers and see the stone walls up close from the inside. The site is openly accessible, making it easy to spend time examining how the ancients constructed these structures.
Researchers have worked to pinpoint the exact dates of this site by examining bone remains found in the chambers. The findings reveal that the graves were used repeatedly over several centuries by different groups of people.
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