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unusual facts about Megalithic



Ashot Avagyan

Since December 2010 Ashot Avagyan has been the Director of Qarahunge (Zorats Karer) megalithic

Cossington

Cossington, Kent is a small settlement in Kent, home of a possible megalithic site

Djelfa

North of Djelfa town there is an imposing physical feature known as Salt Rock (Rocher de Sel) that resulted from the erosion of rock salts and marls by rain, and to the west of the town Megalithic funerary structures are found.

Dolmen de Axeitos

Dolmen de Axeitos is a prehistoric megalithic dolmen just to the northwest of the village Axeitos, in the parish of Oleiros, in the municipality of Riveira, on the Barbanza Peninsula in the estuary of the Ría de Arousa in the Province of A Coruña, Galicia, in northern Spain.

Dolmens of North Caucasus

One of the most interesting megalithic complexes – group of three dolmens - stands in a row on a hill above Zhane River on the Black Sea coast in the Krasnodar area near Gelendzhik, Russia.

Dorothy Carrington

Partly as a result of her work, French archaeologists were persuaded to travel to Corsica and study the now famous megalithic site of Filitosa.

Gate of the Sun

The Gate of the Sun is a megalithic solid stone arch or gateway constructed by the ancient Tiwanaku culture of Bolivia over 1500 years before the present.

Jade use in Mesoamerica

Von Humboldt sought to determine whether or not Neolithic jadeite celts excavated from European Megalithic archaeological sites like Stonehenge and Carnac shared sources with the similar looking jade celts from Mesoamerica (they do not).

Kailasanathar Temple

Koneswaram temple, Chola-Pallava-Pandya rock cut black granite megalithic Shiva temple of Trincomalee, also known from medieval period as Thirukonamalai Konesar Kovil and Dakshina Kailasam

Kandarodai

In 1970, the University of Pennsylvania museum team excavated a ceramic sequence remarkably similar to that of Arikamedu, with a Pre-rouletted ware period, subdivided into an earlier "Megalithic", a later "Pre-rouletted ware phase," followed by a "Rouletted ware period".

Landscape mythology

His interpretations are strongly influenced by the hypothesis of a matriarchal structure of society and a cult of the Great Goddess in Neolithic Europe, and he associates megalithic monuments and elements of traditional fairy tales with these ideas.

Meigh

The peak of the trail, at 3880 ft, contains megalithic cairns and a lake, with views of the Ring of Gullion, Mourne Mountains and Cooley Mountains.

Nainativu Nagapooshani Amman Temple

The findings include Naga idols and suggest that serpent worship was widely practised in the Kerala and Jaffna region during the megalithic period.

Qarahunj

:For a megalithic structure in Armenia, see Zorats Karer; for a village in Azerbaijan, see Karaundzh, Azerbaijan.

Riesenberg

the megalithic tomb of Riesenberg near Nobbin, on the island of Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Ruaidhri

Rúaidhrí de Valera (1916–1978), Irish archaeologist who worked on the megalithic tombs of Ireland

South Tapanuli Regency

In the village of Padang Bujur in the same district, one can also find megalithic remains and what seems to be the base for a padmasana.

Stone circle

"Megalithic" stone circles have also been discovered in village Shewa, Swabi in Pakistan as well.

Stonehenge Apocalypse

In the 1970s, a thorough examination of the statistical significance of various sites seemingly on a linear path, conducted by the Royal Statistical Society and Simon Broadbent, attempted to determine the normality of the distribution of these megalithic sites.

Swinside

Megalithic specialist Aubrey Burl called Swinside "the loveliest of all the circles" in north-western Europe.

The Megalithic European

The Megalithic European : The 21st Century Traveller in Prehistoric Europe is Julian Cope's second book on historic sites, this time looking at continental Europe and Ireland.

The Modern Antiquarian

The Modern Antiquarian: A Pre-Millennial Odyssey Through Megalithic Britain is a book written by Julian Cope, published in 1998.

Themistocles Zammit

He also published a History of the Maltese Islands and excavated important archaeological sites, such as the Hypogeum and the megalithic Tarxien Temples, Ħaġar Qim and Mnajdra, which have since been declared UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Tondidarou

Tondidarou is a small town and megalithic archaeological site in the Niafunké Cercle, Timbuktu Region, Mali, northwest of Niafunké, about 150 kilometres south-west of Timbuktu.

Unchambered long barrow

East of the River Oder they are often trapezoidal or triangular with rounded tips, (Mound 9 at Sarnowo, Poland) mostly, however, without transverse walls (megalithic and non-megalithic) dividing them into separate chambers.

Veluri Venkata Krishna Sastry

37. Megalithic Cultures- The Iron Age, Pre and Proto Historic Andhra Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh History Congress, Dravidian University, 2003


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