Updated December 3, 2000

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FIGURE CAPTIONS

Figure 1. Core area containing urdolmen oriented parallel in long-mounds in relation to the overall TRB tomb and German gallery-grave distribution. Diamond = location of one or more probable tombs within a 100 km² area.






Figure 2. Model of TRB megalithic chamber and German gallery-grave evolution (not to scale).






Figure 3. Length and width of chambers (1197 observations).






Figure 4. Box and Whiskers graph of all chamber lengths by chamber type. A Box and Whiskers graph represents statistics similar to the interquartile range (cf. Fig. 25). UD = urdolmen, ED = extended-dolmen, PD = polygonal-dolmen, GD = grand-dolmen, GG = passage-graves, GA = gallery-graves, * = outlyer, ° = distant outlyer.






Figure 5. Box and Whiskers graph of chamber area by chamber type. For the legend cf. Fig. 4.



Figure 6. Dolmen with articulated skeleton at Bogø By (A. P. Madsen 1868:41 No. 64). Enlarged artifacts are not to scale.

Figure 7. Primeval-dolmen at Hjortegårdene (A. P. Madsen 1868:4 No. 9; enlarged artifact not to scale).

Figure 8. Horserød Hegn long-mound with top-entrance dolmen and theoretically later perpendicular dolmen, which was perhaps entered via a shaft from the top of the mound (A. P. Madsen 1868:7 No. 17) .






Figure 9. Evolution from parallel top-entrance dolmen (1-2) via transitional top-entrance/half-height front-entrance perpendicular dolmen (3), parallel front-entrance dolmen without passage (4-5), and dolmen with rudimentary passage (6), to multiside-stone extended-dolmen with axial capstone and short passage (7) in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Plans after Schuldt 1972 (not to scale). 1=A92/B10 Barkvieren, Kr. Rostock; 2=A38/B37 Barendorf, Forst Everstorf, Kr. Grevesmühlen; 3=A44/B41 Naschendorf, Forst Everstorf, Kr. Grevesmühlen; 4=A629/B21 Frauenmark, Kr. Parchim; 5=A709/B29 Mankmoos, Kr. Sternberg; 6=A35/B35 Barendorf, Forst Everstorf, Kr. Grevesmühlen; 7=A345/B95 Nobbin, Kr. Rügen.

Figure 10. Two capstone transitional polygonal-dolmen/passage-grave and three-capstone passage-grave Mølledys, Troldegårdene Sb. 64, Horns h., Fredriksborg a., Sjælland (A. P. Madsen 1868:2 No. 2, cf. Hansen 1988: 66, 68-72, 74-79, 81-82).

Figure 11. Evolution from perpendicular dolmen via proto- to primeval passage-grave (A. P. Madsen 1896:11 No. 18, Sprockhoff 1966 No. 157).

Figure 12. Protopassage-grave Sulkendrup Mølle, Vindinge Sb. 9, Fyn (Rosenberg 1929:207 Fig. 16).

Figure 13. Protopassage-grave Twietfort, Kr. Lübz (Rennebach 1974).

Figure 14. Protopassage-grave, Visbek, Niedersachsen (Sprockhoff 1975 No. 975). The reported approximate orientation of the long-mound has been added.

Figure 15. Primeval passage-grave with side-chamber, Gundestrup, Skræm Sb. 27, Hjørring a. (A. P. Madsen 1896:12 No. 20).

Figure 16. Primeval passage-grave with side/end-chamber, Fjelsø Sb. 4, Viborg (after Rosenberg 1929 Fig. 27).

Figure 17. Complex passage-grave with end-chamber, Ormehøj, Katbjerg (A. P. Madsen 1896:16 No. 27).

Figure 18. Complex passage-grave with two end-chambers, Hvissehøj, Torslev Sb. 37, Hjørring, Jylland (Nordman 1918 Fig. 95).

Figure 19. Protodouble passage-grave, Rørby Sb. 12, Gl. Holbæk a., Sjælland (Hansen 1993:123 Fig. 142).

Figure 20. Double passage-grave, Ormshøj, Årby Sb. 3 (A. P. Madsen 1868:19 No. 31).

Figure 21. Triple passage-grave, Ubby/Udby, Gl. Holbæk a. (A. P. Madsen 1868:18 No. 29; enlarged artifacts not to scale).

Figure 22. Dual-passage chamber with separate end-chambers, Gundestrup 21 (A. P. Madsen 1896:12 No. 21).

Figure 23. Single-chamber dual-passage-grave, Røddinge (A. P. Madsen 1868:37 No. 59).


Figure 24. Single-chamber dual-passage-grave in tumulus, Sneslev Sb. 1, Gl. Sorø a., Sjælland (A. P. Madsen 1868:25 No. 39; enlarged artifacts not to scale).






Figure 25. Box-and-Whiskers graph of nineteen C14 dates of German gallery-graves and masonry chambers based on Beier 1991a:183a List 24. (The standard deviations have not been evaluated.) The median is the vertical line, which splits the ordered dates in half. The top and bottom of the central box, termed inner hinges or fences, mark the halfway point of the remaining halves of the data. The H-spread, which is comparable to the interquartile range or midrange, is the absolute value of the difference of the values between the two hinges. The inner fences are ±1.5 H-spread, the outer ±3 H-spread (Wilkinson 1992:189-203). The dates within the box (inner fences) indicate the most likely building period of the tombs. The horizontal lines, or whiskers, mark less likely dates. *Outside value probably due to later burial activity.






Figure 26. Comparison of French model (Boujot and Cassen 1993) and TRB/German gallery-grave model (not to scale).

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