Tumulus Vaalserberg

Round barrows are found across the Low Countries and France, and many were raised in the Late Neolithic and the Bronze Age. They are hemispherical mounds raised over a central burial, which may be an inhumation or a cremation placed in a vessel. Barrows were often reused, with later graves cut into the mound, sometimes long after the first burial.

The Bell Beaker phenomenon of the late third millennium BCE brought a new burial rite to western Europe: individual burials, often under a tumulus and with weapons, in contrast to the collective, weaponless burials of the earlier Neolithic.