http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/32349
The Fleury-sur-Orne monuments range in length from 40 feet to 985 feet and are enclosed on both sides by ditches 8 inches to 50 feet wide. The ditches may have contained palisades made from trees felled by stone adzes. The earth from the ditches was piled up in the center of the structure forming a mound that housed one or more graves of important people. Many of these mounds have eroded away or been destroyed by agriculture, development or war. One of the 20 structures excavated at Fleury, however, is intact and in excellent condition. The original walls of stacked grass turf are extant if somewhat reduced. Archaeologists believe they were at least six and a half feet high originally.
https://www.livescience.com/neolithic-woman-warrior-burial-france
The team also used the samples of ancient DNA to determine any family links between the people buried there, and the scientists found that almost all the barrow occupants were unrelated, except for a father and a son who had been buried in the same barrow.
Ancient Neolithic Long Barrow in the UK:
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2017/11/seven-must-see-long-barrows-in-england/100889
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47938188
Boyt H2 YDNA Monuments Circled in Green (Some Monuments contain two remains)
Monuments
Mon 1
FLR 1-5 H2m2 U5b2b3a (FLR001)
Mon 8 (father and son)
FLR 8-5 H2m2 J2b1a (FLR002)
FLR 8-6 H2m2 U5b1c (FLR008)
Mon 26
FLR 26-5 H2m2 K1b1 (FLR004)
Mon 24
FLR 24-5 H2* K1a+195 (FLR009)
Mon 35
FLR 35-5 H2m2 K1a+195 (FLR014)
Mon 31
FLR 31-5A I2a1a2 U8a1
FLR 31-5B female J2b1d (FLR013)
First monumentalities in Western Europe: the necropolis of Fleury-sur-Orne "Les Hauts de l’Orne"
Emmanuel Ghesquière 1, 2 Philippe Chambon 3, 4 David Giazzon 1 Corinne Thevenet 1, 5 Aline Thomas 4
1 Inrap - Institutnational de recherches archéologiques préventives
2 CReAAH - Centre de Recherche en Archéologie, Archéosciences, Histoire
Abstract : The cemetery is located near Caen, 0.5 km from the Orne Valley and 15 km from the coast, in French Normandy. The excavation carried out in 2014 covers an area of 21 hectares, and an extension of 3.5 ha in 2016. The entire necropolis presents 36 Passy-type monuments (4700-4300 cal BC), 7 cairns of Middle Neolithic 2 (4200-3800 cal BC) and three alignments of posts. Fleury cemetery, throught its size and the immensity of the monuments, can be considered the most important of this type after the eponymous site of Passy (Yonne). One of the monuments is the longest ever found in Europe: 372 m. Another noteworthy feature is the partially fossilized tumulus of a large trapezoidal monument. Three forms of «Passy»-type monuments have been identified: The smallest are are surrounded by ditches or isolated circles, which diameters or lengths rang from 3 to 12 m. Trapezoidal monuments are usually short (less than 20 m), but one is exceptionally large with 150 m in length for 60 m width to the east. The most numerous (14 monuments) are those with parallel ditches. The average length is 100 m, although the shorter mesure13 m long and the two largest are more than 300 m long. For all monuments, only 16 individual graves and 2 double graves have been discovered. Associated deposits are not common, generally arrow heads. Four tombs include richer deposits composed of several sheep, and count between 1 and 12 individuals. Fleury-sur-Orne cemetery, like those of Rots and Blainville-sur-Orne (Normandy), or those located in the Paris basin (Passy and Balloy), marks the origin of the funerary monumentalism in France, with giant tumulus and attempts to build with stones, around 4700 and 4600 B.C. Their dedication to a single individual corresponds to an episode of strong hierarchy in Neolithic societies.
Ancient genomes indicate population replacement in Early Neolithic Britain
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-0871-9.epdf?sharing_token=ktLcVD4Biyukp34JP97eHNRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0Pa7OJz_wmtLVgZmBdjsstsAoZ1zeBDZ02ycvpuHqw3QAtsv1mqX7QQAbCHgkVJUoDLL1B72WXLwCksqJPBJnxtf7tBIIk8I4et_6Zptt5kolspTvOFdOAAzqayYjrDQdR6EChqlIqzAymcNAUyO-YNSG6erts1GZsPkKKBr7hZBQ%3D%3D&tracking_referrer=www.bbc.com
