Figure 1
Overview of the working area with all burial mounds of the Bronze Age and Single Grave Culture (landscape: Lower Saxony State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology).
Table 1
Chronological classification of the burial mounds listed in AdabWeb in the working area. Entries crossed out were not taken into account based on the archaeological dating.
| DATING | NUMBER OF MOUNDS |
|---|---|
| Unknown | 1910 |
| 4 | |
| 2 | |
| Iron Age | 5 |
| Bronze Age – Iron Age | 14 |
| Bronze Age | 85 |
| Bronze Age–Neolithic | 3 |
| Single Grave Culture | 23 |
| 6 | |
| Neolithic | 17 |
| Multi-period | 2 |
Figure 2
Comparison of the summary of the groups of grave mounds at individual bases, considering different distances (landscape: Lower Saxony State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology).
Figure 3
Comparison of different approaches to reconstructing a network based on burial mounds.
Figure 4
Relative neighbour network of the burial mounds in the working area.
Figure 5
Exemplary comparison of calculated and distribution based expected edges of the network.
Figure 6
Calculated betweenness of the network.
Figure 7
Network model and betweenness values in connection with modern natural spatial conditions (landscape: Lower Saxony State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology).
Figure 8
The calculated network and wooden or stone trackways in the bogs of the region.
Table 2
Dates of the trackways in the working area according to AbabWeb.
| DATING | NUMBER OF TRACKWAYS |
|---|---|
| unknown | 30 |
| Neolithic | 2 |
| Bronze Age | 3 |
| Iron Age | 3 |
| Roman Iron Age/Migration Period | 1 |
| Middle Ages | 1 |
| Modern Age | 1 |
Figure 9
The calculated network and the non-burial sites of the Bronze Age and Single Grave Culture.
Figure 10
Distances of the non-burial sites of the Bronze Age and Single Grave culture on the Geest to the nearest edge of the network.
Figure 11
Example of a comparison of the distances of random finds to those from the Bronze Age and Single Grave culture on the Geest.
Figure 12
The calculated network and the megalithic graves of the Funnel Beaker culture.