“…The earthen constructions usually range in size from 10 to 50 m in diameter and 0.5 to 20 m high, but exceptions are possible. Excavations across Eastern and Central Europe have shown that the contents of mounds can vary from no human remains at all (Agre, ), to a simple inhumation or cremation burial with or without an enclosure (Stoyanov, ), to elaborate stone or brick tombs with much architectural and artistic refinement and intrinsically valuable burial goods surrounding the bodies of the deceased and sacrificial victims (Gergova, ; Chichikova, ; Kitov, ; Filov, Velkov, & Mikov, ; Venedikov, ; Stoyanova, ; Stoyanov & Stoyanova, ; Tsetskhladze, ). The fate of the mounds changed dramatically after the fall of the Iron Curtain (Bailey, ).…”