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The French ministry of culture lists the following numbers of megalithic monuments: Menhirs: 1172. Dolmen: 1349. Carnac stones, Brittany; Mégalithes du causse de Blandas , over 80 megaliths exist on the Blandas plateau in the Massif Central ( Gard department) in southern France. La Noce de Pierres, Brittany; Filitosa, Corsica
At a number of sites in southeastern Turkey, ceremonial complexes with large T-shaped megalithic orthostats, dating from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN, c. 9600–7000 cal BC), have been discovered. At the most famous of these sites, Göbekli Tepe , parts of the oldest level (III) have been C14-dated as far back as to the mid-10th millennium BC ...
Monolith with bull, fox, and crane in low relief at Göbekli Tepe. The density of most stone is between 2 and 3 tons per cubic meter. Basalt weighs about 2.8 to 3.0 tons per cubic meter; granite averages about 2.75 metric tons per cubic meter; limestone, 2.7 metric tons per cubic meter; sandstone or marble, 2.5 tons per cubic meter.
Toggle America subsection. 4.1 North America. 4.2 South America. 5 See also. 6 References. ... is a megalithic site in Koppal district, some 10 kilometres (6.2 mi ...
This is a list of sites where claims for the use of archaeoastronomy have been made, sorted by country.. The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and the International Astronomical Union (IAU) jointly published a thematic study on heritage sites of astronomy and archaeoastronomy to be used as a guide to UNESCO in its evaluation of the cultural importance of archaeoastronomical ...
Megalithic entrance; The Megalithic Portal; Megalithic sites in Pyrénées-Orientales; Megaliths in Ethiopia; The Megaliths of Upper Laos; Menhir; Meteu 'L Klechem; Moai; List of largest monoliths; Mount Livadiyskaya; Msoura
This is a list of notable archaeological sites sorted by country and territories. ... Center for American Archeology, Koster Site; ... List of megalithic sites;
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