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🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (3000 BCE) Beira Alta Cunha Baixa complex (type-site Beira dolmen) · Beira Neolithic Cunha Baixa painted pottery group
Cunha Baixa excav Leisure 1960s sun motif.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Naviform Late Bronze Age (1700–1300 BCE naviform house 18 m × 12 m) · Naviform Late Bronze Mallorca pre-Talayotic houses (1700–1300)
Can Gaià naviform 18 m house 1700 BCE.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE group 7 dolmens in 1 km) · Galician Neolithic cluster Pedra da Arca 7 tombs
Pedra da Arca 7 dolmens cluster.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Talayotic (1300 BCE early naveta S'Hospitalet to 650 BCE enclosing wall 360 m; Post-Talayotic 500 BCE) · Talayotic Mallorca Artà (Ses Païsses talayotic village 9000 m² walled 360 m perimeter 3 m high with horseshoe portal 3.5 m)
Ses Païsses Artà 650 wall 360 m.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2500 BCE) Middle Atlas · Neolithic Atlas Berber pastoral
Middle Atlas circles surveyed.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) 4-antas series along 1 km corde · Vale de Rodrigo Neolithic necropolis 4 dolmens 4000–3000
Vale Rodrigo Leisner 4-antas.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (4200 BCE) Redondo Candieira rectangular cromlech 15 × 12 m door-framed 4 m · Redondo Neolithic Candieira cluster 4200
Candieira door cromlech.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (3800 BCE) Monte da Toca regional variant · Alentejo Neolithic Toca group
Monte da Toca excavated.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (4500–3000 BCE) Lusit-Protugal menhir row · Setúbal Neolithic Quinta alignment
Quinta do Anjo row.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Medway Megaliths
Kit's Coty House in Kent, England, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic megalithic attributed to Medway Megaliths culture. Megalithic construction with sarsen; evidence of ceremonial and funerary use.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Early to Late Neolithic · Alentejo Megalithic
Largest megalithic complex in Iberia and among oldest in Europe: 95 granite menhirs/stones in double oval (E-W aligned), decorated with cup-marks and croziers, set in cork-oak forest near Almendres.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Funnel Beaker West Group
Large TRB hunebed D17 at Rolde (c. 3400 BCE), 17 m chamber with 8 capstones, one of the intact Drenthe passage graves near Rolde church. Excavated and restored showing pottery and flint assemblage.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Neolithic · Armorican Neolithic
Table des Marchands in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Neolithic megalithic attributed to Armorican Neolithic culture. Megalithic construction with granite; evidence of ceremonial and funerary use.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Megalith
PPN A/B 9600–8000 BCE · Taş Tepeler PPN
Umbrella for 12 PPN hilltop sanctuaries (Karahan, Göbekli, Sayburç, Çakmaktepe, Sefer Tepe etc.) being excavated 2019-present, revealing 250+ T-pillars region-wide, reshaping Neolithisation model.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Megalith
Pre-Pottery Neolithic · Taş Tepeler PPN
Major Taş Tepeler sister site to Göbekli Tepe, ~15 ha with quarries, 266 T-pillars and special building with 11 pillars and phallic/human-head statuary. Reveals 12-site hilltop sanctuary network.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Swift Creek–Weeden Island 350–750 CE · Swift Creek – Weeden Island
Woodland Mound A 17 m, Swift Creek 350–750 CE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Hebridean Late Neolithic
Cruciform setting: central circle 13 m diameter with 4.8 m monolith and avenues N,S,E,W. Most prominent of 19 Callanish sites on ridge above Loch Roag. Potential lunar standstill alignment.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Funnel Beaker — Emsland
Emsland passage grave (c. 3300 BCE) near Meppen, 15 m hunebed with chamber and oval enclosure, TRB Emsland group. Capstones partly displaced but chamber well preserved in forest clearing.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Funnel Beaker West Group
TRB hunebed D49 at Ellertshaar (c. 3350 BCE) on Drenthe plateau, 10 m chamber with 4 capstones in heathland. Excavated by van Giffen showing funnel beakers and erratic granite provenance.
🇲🇹 Malta · Megalith
Neolithic (Ġgantija phase) · Maltese Temple culture
Pair of cloverleaf temples with walls to 6 m high, coralline blocks >50 t, among earliest free-standing stone structures (c.3600 BCE), surrounded by massive outer wall on Gozo plateau.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Classic–Epiclassic 350–900 CE · Northern Mesoamerican frontier
Northern hill fortress Salón de Columnas, 350–900 CE, Chicomóztoc candidate.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Megalith
Aksumite · Aksumite / Ge'ez
Capital of Aksumite Kingdom (100 BCE–940 CE) with monolithic granite stelae quarried 4 km, carved to imitate multi-storey buildings with false doors/windows, elite tombs, palaces.
🇲🇹 Malta · Megalith
Chalcolithic (Tarxien phase) · Maltese Temple culture
Four interconnected temples with spiral reliefs, animal friezes and 2.7 m mother-goddess statue fragment. Most decorated of Maltese temples, adjacent to Hal Saflieni Hypogeum.
🇲🇹 Malta · Megalith
Chalcolithic · Maltese Temple culture
Clifftop complex of three conjoined temples 500 m below Ħaġar Qim; best preserved in Malta with corbelled walls, precise equinox/solstice solar alignments through doorways.
