D39a
DatedEst. 3500–2800 BCE
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Hunebed D39a is een verdwenen hunebed in Nederland. Het lag vlak bij de hunebedden D38, D39 en D40 in het Valtherbos, iets ten noorden van Emmen in de Nederlandse provincie Drenthe.
De resten zijn gevonden in oktober 1992. Gezien de geringe grootte, wordt rekening gehouden met het feit dat het om een verdwenen steenkist kan gaan.
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The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.
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The full article
D39a: the whole story
Summary in EnglishSources for this section
- Wikipedia (Dutch): D39a (hunebed)CC BY-SA 4.0
Sources for this section
- Wikipedia (Dutch): D39a (hunebed)CC BY-SA 4.0
D39a is a dolmen in Emmen, Germany. Wikidata describes it as: dolmen in the Netherlands. A typological estimate: 3500 BCE to 2800 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Dutch article "D39a (hunebed)", shown in the original language.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
German and Dutch Hünengräber (hunebedden)
The megalithic tombs of northern Germany and the Netherlands were built by the Funnel Beaker culture (about 4100 to 2800 BCE), and the style, called Nordic megalith architecture, emerged between 3500 and 2800 BCE. In the Netherlands the tombs are the hunebedden, built between 3470 and 3250 BCE by the western group of the Funnel Beaker culture and used until about 2760 BCE. Of an estimated 100 original tombs, 54 are preserved, 52 of them in the province of Drenthe and two in Groningen. After the Funnel Beaker culture ended the sites were reused by the Single Grave and Bell Beaker cultures in the Early Bronze Age and, to a lesser extent, into the Middle Ages.
In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern up to 5,000 megalith tombs were erected, and more than 1,000 are preserved and protected by law; they belong to the youngest and easternmost part of the western European tradition. Most are dolmens, often lying inside a circular or trapezoid frame of standing stones. Locally they are known as Hünengräber, "giants' tombs", or Großsteingräber, "large stone tombs"; the trapezoid frame is a Hünenbett, "giants' bed", and the circular one a Bannkreis. Between 1964 and 1974 Ewald Schuldt excavated over a hundred sites there and sorted them into simple dolmens, extended dolmens, passage graves, great dolmens, unchambered long barrows and stone cists.
Folklore: the German and Dutch names, with Hüne meaning "giant", carry the old idea that giants were buried here. This is a tradition; the stones were placed by Neolithic farmers.
When visiting, look for the capstones on their supports and the frame of kerbstones around them.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Megaliths in the Netherlands, Wikipedia: Megaliths in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Wikipedia: Nordic megalith architecture, Wikipedia: Funnel beaker culture, Wikipedia: Dolmen · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Dated moments in the story
- 1992
De resten zijn gevonden in oktober 1992. Gezien de geringe grootte, wordt rekening gehouden met het feit dat het om een verdwenen steenkist kan gaan.
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Photographs
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Michielverbeek · CC BY 4.0Photo taken at this location (Wikimedia Commons)
Theun · CC BY-SA 3.0Photo taken at this location (Wikimedia Commons)
Theun · CC BY-SA 3.0Photo taken at this location (Wikimedia Commons)
Lore
Evidence & Lore
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What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 3500–2800 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for dolmens in Germany; this site has not been dated itself. German dolmens (Huengrab) belong to the Nordic megalith tradition which emerged predominantly between 3500 and 2800 BC.Source for this date
Where it stands
Germany
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 52°48′40″ N, 6°53′16″ EFor a GPS or map app: 52.81114, 6.88768
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
Hunebed D38 in Boswachterij Emmen3500–500 BCE- D383500–2800 BCE
D393500–2800 BCE
D403500–2800 BCE- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Terrein met een grafheuvel3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Terrein met zes grafheuvels en mogelijk sporen van een urnenveld3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Terrein met een grafheuvel3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Terrein met een grafheuvel3500–500 BCE
Sources
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2 sources behind this page
- 01Wikidata Q23929608wikidata.org
- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- Hunebed D38 in Boswachterij Emmen<0.1 km E
- D39<0.1 km SE
- D38<0.1 km SE
- D40<0.1 km SE
- Terrein met een grafheuvel0.1 km E
- Terrein met zes grafheuvels en mogelijk sporen van een urnenveld0.3 km NE
- Terrein met een grafheuvel0.3 km NW
- Terrein met een grafheuvel1.0 km N
- Terrein met drie grafheuvels1.2 km N
- Terrein met een en vermoedelijk twee grafheuvels1.3 km S
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Text, licence and sources
Text from the Wikipedia article "D39a (hunebed)" (Dutch), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; authors are listed in the page history. Reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read on Wikipedia · Edit history and authors
- Wikipedia (Dutch): D39a (hunebed)CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wikidata Q23929608CC0