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| Name | Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery, 7000 years old?! History & Excavation. County Sligo, Ireland. |
| Video Uploader | Video From History with Kayleigh |
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| Video Discription | #CarrowmoreMegalithicCemetery #IrishMegalithicCemetery #CarrowmoreCemetery #KnocknareaPeninsula Get your Merch: https://historywithkayleighshop.com/ Become a Channel member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMwDeEoupy8QQpKKc8pzU_Q/join Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/HistoryWithKayleigh watch our previous neolithic deep dives: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyM1QcUGVGdfmvhQKoWzGJnJgQ4BfaplL Subtitles have been added by; C. Brouwer. Thank you so much! The location of Carrowmore megalithic cemetery is on the Knocknarae peninsula in county Sligo, Ireland. Carrowmore is one of the 4 major passage tomb cemeteries in Ireland, the other 3 being Loughcrew, Carrowkeel and Newgrange. Carrowmore megalithic cemetery is the largest of it’s kind in Ireland and regarded to be amongst the oldest megaliths in Europe. Results of radiocarbon dating from between 1994-2000 suggest that the oldest monument at Carrowmore cemetery was built around 5400BC, making it more than 7400 years old, that’s about 2000 years older than Newgrange. At Carrowmore there had been 2 seasonal campaigns of excavation. The excavations were led by Swedish archaeologist Göran Burenhult, who has been writing about their findings and new data extensively since. Burenhult was personally invited to dig by Michael J. O’Kelly The construction of Listoghil tomb was dated to be around 3600 and 3400 BC. This is also the only tomb at the cemetery where both inhumation and cremations have been found. The human remains found in the tombs at Carrowmore cemetery suggest that the inhabitants of the region had a complex set of funerary practices. This included processes of reburial and excarnation (The removal of the flesh and organs of a deceased person before burial). Artefacts found in burial sites at Carrowmore cemetery include hollow scrapers, mushroom headed antler pins, stone or clay balls and arrowheads made of flint from the Antrim region. Cremation was thought to be to be the common way for burials in this time period, but findings like these unburnt bones dating this far back suggests that inhumation and cremation were practised at the same time. The new available evidence supports the idea of a much more complex background for the Irish megaliths and the different kind of tomb types. More complex than the previously thought chronological stages and geographical spread. But the evolutionary development can clearly be defined within the different tomb types. The oldest known tombs are the smaller and simpler monuments and the complex mega monuments such as the great passage tombs of Knowth, Dowth and Newgrange in the Brú na Bóinne have been constructed much later. At Carrowmore cemetery is this very evident, the earliest dated monuments consisting of simple stone cists and small dolmens are first succeeded by a rudimentary cruciform chamber and eventually succeeded by Listoghil a very large cairn monument containing a limestone chamber. Listoghil is most likely succeeded by Queen Maeve’s Grave on top of Knocknarae mountain marking the end and final peak of the megalithic tradition on the Knocknarae peninsula. In the most recent decades a growing number of megalithic monuments in western Europe have been shown to be older than previously thought. Although the oldest radiocarbon dating at Carrowmore is contested to this day for being an outlier on the site, doesn’t mean the date is wrong. And with evidence found during excavations at Carrowmore there are indications that not as previously thought; the building of megalithic tombs originated from the south, but originated simultaneously in different places in Europe. These findings suggest that we will have to rewrite our megalithic history as recent discoveries in the last few decades have given us much more information, changing our views of the past. But there is much more work to be done when it comes to finding out more from our stone age past. Make an appointment to take a tour at: https://www.heritageireland.ie/en/north-west/carrowmoremegalithiccemetery/ music: Adrian von Ziegler - evening breeze Sources: https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-europe/carrowmore-cemetery-ireland-021985 Burenhult, G. 1999b. Megalithic symbolism in Ireland and Scandinavia in light of new evidence from Carrowmore. ARKEOS 6. Perspectivas em Diálogo. Tomo 1. Tomar. BURENHULT-SFCJ-2019-Final-Proofs Bergh, Stefan. The Neolithic dates from Carrowmore 1978-98: A source critical review Burenhult, G. 2001. Long-distance cultural interaction in megalithic Europe: Carrowmore and the Irish megalithic tradition in a western European and Mediterranean context. Please leave a comment, like & subscribe! Add me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KanD1991 Add me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kandcats/ . [gZYdtDUH-0Y] |
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