🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Almendres Menhir Pair — Vale Maria do Meio Cromlech Satellite
Neolithic (5200–4200 BCE) Almendres satellite · Alentejo Neolithic satellite 5200-4200
Vale Maria do Meio excavated by Pina 1960s, U cromlech.
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🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (5200–4200 BCE) Almendres satellite · Alentejo Neolithic satellite 5200-4200
Vale Maria do Meio excavated by Pina 1960s, U cromlech.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Talayotic (1100–500 BCE settlement 2000 m²; 200 BCE Punic cistern 2 after 123 BCE Roman conquest) · Talayotic → Punic 6th c. BCE contact → Roman to Punic merged
S'Illot coastal talayotic with Punic cistern 200 BCE.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Talayotic (1000–500 BCE taula; 900 BCE talayot cone 10 m high 18 m diameter 12th–6th) · Talayotic Menorca Talayot-taula-hypostyle triple (Mediterranean Bronze to early Iron village)
Torralba 1990s talayot-taula-hypostyle 14 columns.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Neolithic (3800–2700 BCE corridor 3800, painted 2700 BCE) · Galician Neolithic Dombate style (Atlantic megalithic painted art)
Dombate excavated by Bello 1998 Galician largest.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Post-Talayotic (550–123 BCE Son Ferragut hall 400 BCE) · Post-Talayotic Mallorcan iron age Son Ferragut 550 BCE square talayot abandon→ hall 400 BCE
Puig Morter 14.6 m hypostyle 5 columns 400 BCE.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Pre-Talayotic to Talayotic (1200–750 BCE Tudons; earlier 1600 naveta prototypes) · Balearic pre-Talayotic naviform (Naveta builders 1600–750) with collective inhumations 100 persons
Tudons restored Pericot 1960 14.5 m ship tomb.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Talayotic Iron Age (1000–300 BCE taula peak 800 BCE) · Balearic Talayotic taula builders (Menorca)
Menorca taulas 3.8 m T-shape Talayotic iron.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Talayotic (700–300 BCE) Trepuco taula highest 4.20 m · Talayotic chiefdom Trepuco 700 BCE high taula 4.2 m with wall 3 m high
Trepuco 1930s Trepuco taula 4.20 m tallest.
🇵🇹 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
Talayotic-Post Talayotic (600 BCE Son Oms settlement with 5 buildings 350 m wall) · Talayotic Post-Talayotic sanctuary (500 BCE)
Son Oms 17 m sanctuary 600 rescue 1960.
🇪🇸 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.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (5000–3500 BCE) Almendres series · Alentejo Neolithic Portela phase
Portela 40 ellipse with face noses.
🇪🇸 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.
🇵🇹 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 (3800 BCE) Monte da Toca regional variant · Alentejo Neolithic Toca group
Monte da Toca excavated.
🇳🇱 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.
🇩🇪 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.
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Ancient village
Iron Age to Early Historic (1000 BCE–300 CE) · Tamil megalithic to early Buddhist (Jaffna Dravidian)
Kantarodai is an Iron Age cemetery (1000 BCE–300 CE) north of Jaffna, a 2-ha field of 60 votive mini-stupas (1–2 m) over megalithic urn burials plus Tamil-Brahmi settlement (300 BCE).
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early Neolithic (4800–4300 BCE) · Barnenez (Cerny / VSG)
Brittany's great passage-mound on Kernéléhen peninsula, 11 dolmens in two phases, oldest chamber C1 4850 BCE, with Neolithic engravings and quartz façade.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Neolithic (3700 BCE) · Irish Neolithic / Carrowmore
Carrowmore's centre excavated by P. Woodman 1977–82, dolmen with boulder circle and passage facing Knocknarea's Queen Maeve cairn.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Early to Middle Holocene (7000–5000 BCE ceremonial) · Nabta Playa Neolithic cattle pastoralists (Bunon?)
Bargat excavated by Wendorf & Schild combined archaeological project 1999–, cattle pastoralist ritual with Nabta solstice 45 km.