Overview

• Three human skulls and a late Bronze Age vessel were found intentionally placed in a pit near Welsleben, Saxony-Anhalt, during pre-construction excavations for the SuedOstLink power line.
• The site, located on a territorial boundary, was used for a symbolic ritual offering by a late Bronze Age community approximately 3,000 years ago.
• The same elevated location was previously significant during the Neolithic period, hosting a 6,000-year-old trapezoidal burial hut of the Baalberger culture.
• Osteological analysis of the Neolithic tomb occupant revealed they had survived a severe skull injury for many years before burial.
• Excavations are progressing on schedule and will not delay the SuedOstLink transmission line, which spans 540 kilometers from Wolmirstedt to Landshut, Bavaria.