The team believes it may have been built to align with the sun on the solstices, similar to southern England’s Stonehenge.
. The burial mound contained the remains of roughly 60 men, women, and children. The burial sites were likely used for 800 years, according to the team.
By examining the differences in the color and composition of the clay around it, scientists located three burial mounds a few miles from the Waal River. Within one of the graves, the team found a woman buried with a glass bead from present-day Iraq . This bead is the oldest ever found in the Netherlands, and the team says it proves people from this time were in contact with people who lived over 3,000 miles away.
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