Bad Dürrenberg burial
Bestattung von Bad Dürrenberg
The Bad Dürrenberg burial is a Mesolithic double interment of an adult woman and an infant discovered in 1934 in a terrace beside the Saale River near modern Bad Dürrenberg, Saxony-Anhalt. The rectangular, wattle-lined grave contained abundant grave goods — antler headdress, dozens of pierced animal teeth, stone and bone tools, and powdery red ochre — and the finds are now displayed in the Halle State Museum of Prehistory.
First raised
6500 BC
Its prime
6900 BC
Today
Demolished
As it stood in 6900 BC
What Bad Dürrenberg burial looked like in its prime.
A narrow rectangular burial shaft (~90 × 55 cm, ~1.46 m deep) framed as a woven-wattle basket set into an earthen pit; the interior walls are coated with powdered red ochre and the void was capped with timber and sealed with loam. Inside sits an adult individual with an infant across her lap, surrounded by scattered ochre, a polished amphibolite axe by the right arm, a tubular container of microliths made from a crane humerus, strings of pierced incisors and split boar-tusk plates, worked bone awls, cleaned turtle shells and freshwater-mussel fragments; fragments of goose feathers cling near the head.
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