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This book presents a group of small and inconspicuous barrows that
were recently discovered in the forest of Apeldoorn, the
Netherlands. They are part of an extensive barrow landscape of
which little was yet known. Fieldwork carried out in and around
them yielded a wealth of new data. It was discovered that even the
most inconspicuous and heavily damaged mound of this group still
contained many special features. This special place was anchored
around a site that probably had a particular significance in the
Late Neolithic, and where special rituals were carried out during
the Bronze Age, resulting in the construction of an enigmatic row
of pits - rituals the likes of which have not previously been
attested around barrows in the Netherlands, but which are known
elsewhere in Europe. The dead were buried at locations that were
probably only later covered by monuments. During the Bronze Age
(between the 18th and 15th centuries BC) the mounds of this small
barrow group were used as collective graves for what was probably
perceived as one specific 'community of ancestors'. The burial
practices in the mounds show strong similarities and it is argued
that these barrows were each other's successors, representing the
funeral history of people who wished to unite their forebears in
death as one unproblematic whole without distinctions. The
fieldwork showed that even small-scale, partial excavations of a
seemingly minor barrow group can inform us on the significance of
the extensive barrow landscapes they are part of - a knowledge that
can help us to understand the prehistoric legacy of the Netherlands
and to protect it for the future as heritage.
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