There  can  be  no  doubt  that  in  the  Neolithic  Stone
Age  it  was  usual  to  bury  the  corpse  in  a  sitting  or
contracted  posture  ;  and,  indeed,  it  appears  probable,
although  far  from  being  satisfactorily  established,  that  in
Western  Europe  this  attitude  generally  indicates  an
interment  of  the  Stone  Age  ;  while  those  cases  in  which
the  skeleton  was  extended  may  be  referred,  with  little
hesitation,  to  the  Age  of  Iron.  At  the  same  time  we
must  remember  that  in  Ang^lo-Saxon  times  the  dead  were
burned  by  some  tribes,  and  buried  by  others,  and  there
may  well  have  been  differences  during  the  Stone  Age
also  between  different  tribes.
