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  • Pottery and weapons found in a grave in Alsace.
  • Stone circle at Inveranran, Glanfalloch, Perthshire. P.S.A.S.
  • Iron Age grave at Aylesford, Kent.
  • Pottery from Cowdenbeath, Fife.
  • Prehistoric rock painting representing rain ceremony.
  • Part of great skull burial at Ofnet, Bavaria. Copied from Hugo Obermaier, Fossil man in Spain, Newhaven, 1924, figure 143, page 338. (After F.R. Schmidt). Mesolithic level.
  • Pit burial shown in section, Cumieres (Meuse), France. Neolithic people, having worked out a flint-mine, used the excavation as a grave.
  • Disposal of the dead, Iron Age.
  • Burial scene prepresented in rock-painting, Zimbabwe.
  • A worked-out Neolithic flint mine, used as a burial place
  • Grave-slab from inhumation cist-burial at Ednam, Scottish Borders (Roxburghshire). (1928)
  • Funerary pit.
  • Slab-lined grave of the Scottish Bronze Age Scottish Borders
  • A Mousterian burial place at La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France
  • Decorated skull, Andaman Islands. The skull and other decorated remains of a dead relative are slung over the back and worn thus during mourning. They are believed to be potent to stop pain and cure disease if applied to the affected part.
  • Plan and section of another child's grave. When found three flint instruments lay in positions indicated.
  • Image of a Neolithic grave, damaged, Czechoslovakia.
  • Burial scene prepresented in rock-painting, Zimbabwe.
  • Pit burial at Liury-sur-Vesle (Marne).
  • Burial of the Rheinish Early Bronze Age. Foret de Schirrein, (Bas Rhein).