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🇸🇪 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.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Rock art
Neolithic–Bronze Age (4000–1000 BCE) · Hunter-gatherer rock art tradition
Vitlycke Rock Carvings is a rock art site in Västra Götaland, Sweden featuring carvings and paintings on exposed bedrock dating from the Neolithic to Bronze Age (c.4000–1000 BCE).
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Funnel Beaker (TRB) — Falbygden group
Falbygden passage grave — 9 m passage to 7 m limestone chamber within 19 m mound, c.3300 BCE.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Funnel Beaker Culture (TRB)
Falbygden cluster core — trapezoidal dolmen Ragnvald's Grave and 28 passage graves on limestone plateau, c.3300 BCE.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Middle Neolithic to Viking Age · Funnel Beaker → Bronze Age → Iron Age Scandinavia
3000-year grave field with Neolithic Girommen passage grave, Bronze cairn, Iron Age settings and Viking ship in one meadow.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Vendel–Viking transition (c.800 CE) · Swedish (Västergötland Geatish)
The Sparlösa stone (c.800 CE), 1.77 m Västergötland gneiss standing 177 cm tall beside Sparlösa church north of Vara, is Sweden's second most famous runestone after Rök, inscribed on four sides and…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Late Iron Age (with Neolithic antecedent landscape) · Late Iron Age Bohuslän
41 m stone ship of 49 granite blocks near Strömstad, one of Scandinavia's largest, among 26 graves.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Bronze Age · Nordic Bronze Age (Bohuslän rock art tradition)
UNESCO Bohuslän rock art — 600 panels / 2500 pecked figures (ships, sun, ploughs) on granite, 1700–500 BCE.
