Post by UKarchaeology on Apr 1, 2016 15:03:48 GMT
Digital terrain model generated using data from airborne laser scanning (ALS), showing 4 megalithic tombs in the area Płoszkowo (prepared by M. Schiller).
More than a dozen hitherto unknown monumental megalithic tombs, have been discovered near Dolice (Western Pomerania) by archaeologists from Szczecin. They are so-called Kujawy tombs, often referred to as "Polish pyramids" because of their monumental character.
These ground structures were built in the shape of an elongated triangle and surrounded with huge stone blocks. The width of the base ranged from 6 to 15 meters and length reached 150 m. The structures reached a height of 3 m. The mounds usually contained single burials. Tombs were erected by the Funnel Beaker Culture community from the fifth to the third millennium BC According to archaeologists, people buried in these tombs were associated with the elders of the tribe and clan.
The discovery was made in the framework research and conservation program concerning the megalithic tombs in Western Pomerania, carried out in the Department of Archaeology, University of Szczecin by Dr. Agnieszka Matuszewska in collaboration with Marek Schiller from Dębno.
Full story/pics: scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,408544,more-polish-pyramids---new-discoveries-of-archaeologists.html