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taken from the information board Arbeitskreis Archäologie im Bernburger Land e.V.: The Stockhof Middle Neolithic: Bernburg culture approx. 3,100 - 2,650 BC Late Migration Period: 6th century The Stockhof is one of the eponymous sites of the Bernburg culture and in terms of research history extremely significant. It is a typical representative of those burial mounds from the Middle Neolithic period, which once dominated the area around Bernburg. Few of them have survived until today (Schneiderberg near Baalberge, Spitzes Hoch and Pohlsberg near Latdorf). On the occasion of a summer excursion of the Berlin Society for Ethnology, Anthropology and Prehistory in 1884, the study of the hill was started by the Bernburg History and Antiquities Society in the presence of Rudolf Virchow, the well-known Berlin anatomist and prehistoric researcher, and completed just after a few days. The findings were not completely recovered by this inadequate examination method. In the middle of the hill was a construction of stratified fieldstone - a wall chamber grave - with numerous human skeletal remains (collective grave). The dead were partly buried in typical squat position, partly they were disorderly mixed-up. There were no burn marks as observed in the peak high at Latdorf. As grave goods about 60 pottery, flint blades and pierced Canidenzähne (jewelry) were salvaged. Unlike other hills other burials from the Neolithic or Bronze Age were not registered. However a body grave from the Migration Period (6th century) was found on the hillside periphery. The details of the grave construction and the ceramics found date from the hill around 3000 BC. At that time, the characteristic vase ceramic from the Stockhof, together with the corresponding finds from the Spitzen Hoch, were considered to be so important that in 1892 the Berlin prehistorian Alfred Götze spoke of the so-called "Bernburg type" for the first time. Today, the name "Bernburg Culture" is used for this archaeological group.

Posted by Nucleus 6th June 2019ce Edited 6th June 2019ce

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