Burren archaeology ancient burial sites
This page compares the finds at 2 famous Burren Archaeology sites.
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Poulnabrone
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Poulawack
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| Classification
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Megalithic Portal Tomb
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Linkardstown Type Grave
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| Dating (Radio Carbon date ranges of Human Bones)
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c. 3,800 - 3,100 B.C.
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c. 3,400 B.C.
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| Numbers of Burials
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At least 33 people 17 adults and 16 children
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Four in the central grave a man, a woman, a girl and a baby.*
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| Treatment of the Human Remains
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Bodies were de-fleshed and disarticulated. Some of the bones were burnt.
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The bones in the central grave were mixed up Those in the other graves were ?
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| Landscape
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Thin soil beneath the Dolmen
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No soil beneath the cairn
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| Fauna
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Red Deer, Pine Martin
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Oyster, Shell Fish, Wild Boar.
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*( Nine other graves were also found in subsidiary locations in the cairn. These contained the remains of twelve other people whose graves had been inserted into the cairn during the Early Bronze Age (c.2400 - 1500 BC), at least one thousand years after the burial in the central grave)
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