Re: Tolos & Kurgan

Gerry suggested in relation to my post

> > Whilst considering Kurgan and Tolos, we need to think of other

kinds of

> > chieftain burrial too.
> >
> > The Origins of Human Society gives the following
> >
> > Barrow (Britain)
> > Tumuli (Western & Central Europe)
> > Kurgan (Eastern Europe and the Steppes)
> >
> > All of them applying to the same feature, a burial mound marking the
> > grave of some important leader. Are these etymologically

interrelated,

> > culturally a common feature of IE, or just common features which

appear

> > in certain social contexts?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > John
> >
> >
>
> Hi John,
> Please allow me to add Tolos to your listing. BTW, Piotr says "tolos"
> should be spelled *tholos*. What sayest you?
>
> Barrow (Britain)
> Tumuli (Western & Central Europe)
> Kurgan (Eastern Europe and the Steppes)
> Tolos (Caucasus, Central Asia, Southern Russia)
>
> IMO, these burial practices are all similar and perhaps reflect a
> similar, IE culture.

We must be carefull to stress burial tholoi, as as I suggested in the
Halafian post the first "tholoi" were houses, not grave yard features.
Perhaps we should add

Tholoi (Aegean, Mycenaean) to our list.

Cultural similarities may be a bit hard to prove in the Boyne in
Ireland being IE so early (amongst the first barrows in Western Europe).

Perhaps we should add dolmen (Breton) and Cromlech (Celtic) to our list
of large burried gravesites. Given there remote age I dount that most
of the later are IE

Regards

John