Head Burial from Metzendorf-Woxdorf

Particular burial types open up occasional glimpses into the ritual world of the late Neolithic age. The part burial of a human skull is unique in the north German plain. The skull lay in a bowl covered by an upturned so-called giant beaker. In addition the burial was carefully edged with stones. This skull burial points to foreign influences which originated in Bohemia in the early Bronze Age. There we find not only the same custom of interring the skull separately from the rest of the body under clay vessels, but also examples of the giant beaker.