[Gunnar Creutz]

At the moment I am writing a paper (just a "C-uppsats") upon the spatial distribution of the Neolithic passage graves of the Falbygden area (situated between the two largest lakes in Sweden). In Falkping, the main town of the Falbygden area, we have 15 passages graves within the town. Dr. Lars Bgerfeldt have argued that some of these graves belongs to an archaeogeometrical system. My point with my paper is to show that this system can just be a side-effect of much more simple ideas of spatial distribution. Well, I have to write more on it and do a bit more reseach before I can say if I am right or wrong.
If you belong to those who are specially interested in the megalithic graves of the Neolithic period in Northen Europe (or just Scandinavia, Denmark, or Sweden) it would be nice if you raise a hand so I know that you are here. ;^)
My thanks to Paola and Diego for creating this forum!

[Marek Sodolski]

Well, in my case it depends how you define Northern Europe. Would Pommerania, Poland, be in? This is my most immediate focus these days, plus of course Germany and Scandinavia, which seem to be more or less culturally related megalithic areas, but I'm afraid I hardly know enough of Swedish monuments to impress you :-)

Feel free to contact me any time, anyway.

Regards,
Marek

[Gunnar Creutz]

Hello Marek!

Yes, when using the word 'Northern Europe' in this context I include all the areas that have any kind of megalithic graves belonging to the Funnel Beaker Culture (Trichterbecherkultur, TRB) during the Neolithic, so this will include the Northern Netherlands, Northern Germany, some parts of Poland, Denmark, the southern parts of Sweden and a very small part of Norway.
I know almost nothing about the megalithic graves in Poland. I have just heard that there are long mounds, but I don't know where they are.

Don't worry! You don't have to impress me. B^) It's just nice to see that you have an interest.

Regards,
Gunnar

[Marek Sodolski]

Hello Gunnar!

I have recently sent some photos of Polish megalithic monuments (with short commentary) to Jan Bily, so you may check his pages for a Polish section in some time. Yes, most of the existing monuments of the funneled beaker culture here are long barrows, mostly unchambered, asd far as they are lacking inner structures of large stones. Having said that, some of them seem to have had a chamber near the front, most probably with wooden walls, at least in one instance apparently burnt some time after the barrowa has been erected. The most impressive of these long barrows are to be seen in the region of Kujawy, near Izbica Kujawska (reaching ca 110 m in length). There have also been many similar barrows in Western Pomerania, but only a few have survived, and I haven't seen them yet. (Interstingly, bith these regions are counted among the most fertile in Poland, which is to blame for the destruction that has takenb place.) Additionally, in Pomerania there have been numerous gallery graves (hunebeds) of the kind well known from the Netherlands and Northern Germany: apparently these parts have formed one cultural province at the time. The previous centuries have not spared these either: I know of only one megalithic monument of this type surviving near the village of Borkowo. In Middle Pomerania, by the Lupawa river, there also survived an interesting late stone age complex, mainly of long barrows, but shorter that the long-tailed monsters in Kujawy, party of distintly trapesoid shape.

[Gunnar Creutz]

Hello Marek!

It will really be nice to see your pictures at Megalithic Pages.

Gunnar