Overview
- Officials presented the finds on Thursday after a six‑year archaeological mitigation programme carried out before the planned upgrade of the Angermünde–Stettin railway.
- At Casekow archaeologists uncovered about 30 crouched inhumations plus one cremation that form the largest late Neolithic/early Bronze Age burial field recorded in Brandenburg with grave goods such as flint daggers, ceramic vessels, axes and arrowheads.
- A separate burial field two kilometres away at Luckow belongs to the Oderschnurkeramik tradition and shows different burial rites and grave goods, indicating close‑by cultural diversity in prehistory.
- The team also exposed a probable Roman‑period settlement with postholes and storage pits that contained vessels, a key, garment needles, fibulae and a glass bead pointing to local life and wider exchange networks.
- Next steps include written excavation reports, palaeogenetic and other scientific analyses, conservation and archiving of state property, and the selection of items for public display in Brandenburg’s 2028 archaeology anniversary exhibition which will also guide how the rail upgrade proceeds to protect heritage.