July
14
/ 2025
Archaeological excavations near Krauschwitz, Germany have revealed extraordinary 4,500-year-old decorated bags buried with women and infants, offering unprecedented insights into elite Neolithic motherhood and social status. The discovery, made during construction of the SuedOstLink power transmission line, includes bags adorned with hundreds of carefully arranged dog teeth that may have functioned as prestigious baby carriers for upper-class mothers. The finds come from excavations conducted by the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archaeology of Saxony-Anhalt along the 170-kilometer (105 miles) SuedOstLink route. According to their report, the site has yielded remarkable evidence of a millennia-old cultural landscape, including five 6,000-year-old burial mounds from the Baalberg culture and spectacular Corded Ware burials characterized by richly decorated bags with animal teeth. Neolithic
