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🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Anta de Santa Marta in Porto District, Portugal is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early to Middle Bronze Age · Penwith Bronze Age
19-stone oval circle (24.4×21.9 m) with rare 2.7 m quartz-veined central standing stone and cist.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Multi-period: Neolithic to Medieval (c.2500 BCE–1600 CE) · Neolithic → Bronze Age → Iron Age (Broch) → Pictish → Norse
4,000-year layered settlement mound at Shetland's southern tip with broch, wheelhouses, Viking longhouse and medieval farm.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Greby Grave Field in Västra Götaland, Sweden is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Sarup Causewayed Enclosure in Funen, Denmark is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Early to Middle Bronze Age · Nuragic
Second Giants' Tomb near Arzachena with 3.5 m decorated portal stele and 9.5 m gallery, 1800-1500 BCE.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Er-Roh Dolmen in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Klekkende Høj Passage Grave in Møn, Denmark is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇫🇮 Finland · Megalith
Bronze Age (1500–500 BCE) · Scandinavian Bronze Age — Finnish coastal
Bronze Age burial site on a forested ridge uplifted from the sea near Rauma, inscribed UNESCO 1999.
🇳🇴 Norway · Megalith
Roman Iron Age–Medieval (200–1400 CE) · Norwegian Iron Age / Viking — Sea-kings of Karmsund
Oldest Norwegian royal seat at the narrow Karmsund strait, where saga sources place Harald Fairhair's main manor.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Bronze Age
Four-stone row (to 2.8 m) amid Kilmartin's Bronze Age linear cemetery with cup-marked cairns.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Orcadian Neolithic
Rock-cut tomb carved from single 8.6 m boulder on Hoy, the only one in Britain, c.3000 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware / Maeshowe tradition
Rousay's unique two-storey cairn — lower and upper chambers stacked in 15 m round mound.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Alentejo Megalithic / Évora group
Iberia's largest dolmen near Évora — seven 8 m pillars with 12 m corridor, 4000-3500 BCE.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Plaquemine Mississippian Emerald phase 1250–1600 CE · Plaquemine (Natchez)
Second-largest mound in N America, 10.7 m terraced pyramid, 1250–1600 CE.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Haga Dolmen in Bohuslän, Sweden is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic (~3750 BCE) · Cotswold-Severn Neolithic
One of Somerset's finest Severn-Cotswold tombs extending 30 m with a distinctive trapezoidal mound and seven lateral chambers opening from a central passage.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Late Bronze Age · Talayotic culture of Menorca (Pretalayotic)
Menorca's iconic boat-shaped naveta tomb — 14 m cyclopean funerary monument 1200-750 BCE, UNESCO 2023.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Court Tomb tradition (Western Neolithic Ireland)
55.5 m court tomb on Sligo coast — 13×10 m oval court to twin gallery, best preserved in northwest.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Pueblo III 1190–1280 CE (Ancestral Puebloan florescence) · Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi, Pueblo III)
Largest cliff dwelling in North America: 150 rooms, 23 kivas, 128–150 inhabitants in alcove 88 m deep, 27 m high below mesa top, with coursed sandstone masonry, tower structures and painted plaster,…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Archaeological wonder
Preclassic to Classic Olmec–Maya transition 800 BCE–900 CE · Olmec to Maya (K'iche' Pacific)
Olmec-Maya transition site with earliest Long Count stela 126 CE.
🇳🇴 Norway · Megalith
Iron Age–Viking Age (600–900 CE) · Yngling / Vestfold Viking
Largest burial mound cemetery in Nordic Europe, seven monumental mounds (6–45 m diameter, up to 6 m high) and 21 smaller ones along Oslofjord near Horten, traditional burial of Yngling sea-kings…
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Middle Neolithic to Bronze Age · Funnel Beaker → Corded Ware → Bronze Age
Lüneburg Heath megalithic necropolis of four Funnel Beaker long dolmens spanning 3400-1000 BCE on heath ridge.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon Lima Ychsma–Inca 1200–1532 · Ychsma–Inca
Tapia palace with 1,000-burial cemetery, 1200–1532 CE Lima–Inca.
