Question

How did people treat their dead in the neolithic period?

Answer 1

Answer:During the Neolithic Period the dead were buried inside their houses -beneath the floor- or very close to them, at the limits of the settlements they had lived in.

Explanation:

Answer 2

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• As people became tied to the land, they began to view death and burial in different ways, or at least to dispose of their dead in different ways. We also begin to see differences between different areas of the country, with, for example, the west of England doing something different from the east of England.
• The famous Neolithic burial chamber, the long barrow, began to appear in the south and east of Britain from about 3800 BCE and continued in use until about 3300 BCE. Bones, which had gone through some form of defleshing first, were placed in mortuaries which after a while were sealed off, either by piling mud and stones over the room, or by blocking the doorway with stone. It is possible that there was some form of ceremony in the barrow’s forecourt before, during, or after the placing of the bones. Before the barrow was closed, the skeletons of those within weren't left in peace: bones were often moved around and spread over several chambers. Pryor suggests this was because the bones of ancestors were used in marking formal social and familial alliances.
• Despite how common long barrows are in the landscape today, they weren't the only way of dealing with the dead. From about 3500 BCE, the practice of fiddling with the bones of the dead became less common, and single burials with bodies still intact became more so. Could this be because the idea of death changed and with it the social role of the dead? Perhaps they started to belong to a different world rather than within the living community. Some bodies never found their way into a barrow or other tomb, and many have been found that show evidence of being gnawed by dogs, suggesting that they were left out in the open. In the very far west, dolmen portals (simple rooms with capstones) and court tombs (tomb with courtyards) were most common, and all along the Atlantic coast there were passage graves. These monumental structures, sometime reaching 5m high, were most popular around 3000 BCE and had a burial chamber at the end of a decorated passage, which was often in alignment with the rising or setting sun at either the summer or the winter solstice. Other burial sites combine the eastern and western traditions, such as the roughly 175 burial mounds in the Severn-Cotswold group.