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Megalithic Europe

Tides of History

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The Mecosburg Culture of Hierarchy and Centralization

The Mecosburg people began to expand east and north from the Paris basin. They ran into what had previously been the barriers, the less productive soil of the North European plain. After they arrived in their new lands, at least for a couple of centuries, there's only little evidence of social differentiation or hierarchy. The early days of farming in these new lands don't have a lot of evidence for hierarchy.

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