ABSTRACT
AMONG many peoples and at many periods, a desire to construct monuments over their dead has been a prominent characteristic. In the literate ancient world, the tombs of the great, and the not-so-great, have usually survived in a more or less plundered condition, while their habitations are to be sought in vain, and are fallen into oblivion. Among the illiterate peoples o f prehistoric Europe the same is largely true. We are bewildered by the enormous number o f barrows almost all over Europe, while the number of habitation sites so far discovered is by comparison exceedingly small.
