🇹🇷 Turkey · Megalith
Karahan Tepe — T-Pillar Hall with Human Statue
PPN (9600–8600 BCE) · Göbeklian
Tek Tek pillar site excavated since 2019, part of 12-site Taş Tepeler, yielding giant human figure holding phallus and vulture pillar.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Table des Marchands — Locmariaquer Passage Grave
Neolithic (4000–3500 BCE) · Morbihan megalithic
Flagship Morbihan passage grave, capstone once part of broken Grand Menhir of Er Grah, decorated with hook and hatchet carvings.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Knowth Annex — Kerbstone K13 North Mound Art
Late Neolithic (3200 BCE) · Boyne art tradition
Knowth satellite mound N, decorated K13 excavated by Eogan, with classic Boyne passage-art facing Newgrange at winter solstice.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Wideford Hill Chambered Cairn Mainland Orkney
Neolithic (c.3500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Hilltop cairn excavated 1849 and later by G. Petrie, with three concentric wall faces and intact chamber below moorland peat.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Clava Cairns — Balnuaran Central Ring Cairn
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Clava Cairns / Beaker
Inverness's classic Clava group excavated by Piggott 1952–53, midwinter sunset aligns down passage, Balnuaran has 3 cairns.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Megalith
Göbekli Tepe — Enclosure F Twin Pillars
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (9600–8200 BCE) · PPN hunter-gatherer (Göbeklian)
Germuş hill excavated by Schmidt 1995–, 20 enclosures with T-pillars and animal reliefs,intentionally backfilled 8200 BCE.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Alcalar Chalcolithic Megalithic Necropolis
Chalcolithic (3000–2000 BCE) · Alcalar / Bell Beaker
Algarve's leading Chalcolithic centre excavated by Estácio da Veiga 1880s, with slate plaques, copper tools and ivory.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Megalith
Sayburç — Leopard Relief Enclosure
PPN (9000–8500 BCE) · Göbeklian
Sayburç 2021 discovery just S of Göbekli, relief 5-figure panel with leopard and ithyphallic man excavated by Özdoğan.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Loughcrew — Cairn L Passage Tomb Slieve na Calliagh
Neolithic (3300 BCE) · Loughcrew Neolithic
Slieve na Calliagh Cairn L excavated by Conwell 1860s, sun beam at equinox lights chamber art, Hag's Chair kerbstone.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Knowth Passage Tombs — Eastern Necropolis Extension
Neolithic (3350–2800 BCE) with Bronze Age additions · Boyne Neolithic
Brú na Bóinne World Heritage excavated by Eogan 1962–2000, with 300 decorated stones, sundial-like kerbstone K52.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Poulnabrone Portal Dolmen Burren
Neolithic (4200–2900 BCE) · Irish Neolithic
Burren's icon excavated by Lynch & Otway 1986–88, radiocarbon 3800–3200 BCE, with 33 individuals and grave goods.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Tholos do Barro — Torres Vedras Neolithic Tomb
Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic (3000–2500 BCE) · Estremadura Neolithic
Coastal tholos excavated by Leonor Pina 1910, grave goods including limestone idols and Bell Beaker pottery.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Su Nuraxi di Barumini — Royal Nuraghe
Middle to Late Bronze Age (1500–500 BCE) · Nuragic
Barumini type-site excavated by Lilliu 1949–56, with Iron Age village over Bronze Age bastion, restored.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Ness of Brodgar — Structure 14 Annex
Late Neolithic (3200–2300 BCE) · Grooved Ware
Major Ness excavated by Card 2004–, Grooved Ware centre linking Stones of Stenness and Ring of Brodgar.
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Oyu Stone Circles — Late Jomon Solar Alignment
Late Jomon (2000–1500 BCE) · Late Jomon Oyu
Kazuno circles excavated 1931 and 1946, Late Jomon double circles aligned to summer solstice sunset.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Brodgar — Ness Breck Stone Row
Late Neolithic (3100–2700 BCE) · Grooved Ware
Ness perimeter row revealed in N. Card excavations 2010, linking to earlier Brodgar farm enclosure.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Megalith
Gochang — Jungnim-ri Dolmen Cluster
Korean Bronze Age (1000–500 BCE) · Mumun / Korean Bronze dolmen builders
Gochang Jungnim-ri excavated 1980s, largest capstone 5.6 m, UNESCO 2000 with Hwasun, Ganghwa.
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Isedotai Stone Circles — Akita Northern Jomon
Late Jomon (2200–1500 BCE) · Late Jomon
Kita-Akita Isedotai excavated 1992–, 4 circles with 200+ stones aligned to Mount Moriyoshi.
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Ryoanji — Kameoka Dolmen Valley Kyoto Rim
Yayoi (500–100 BCE) · Yayoi Tanba
Kameoka Yayoi dolmens excavated 1970s, Tanba Yayoi slate dagger and Jar-coffin under.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Megalith
Hwasun — Hyosan-ri Dolmen with Quarry
Bronze Age (800–600 BCE) · Mumun dolmen
Hwasun Hyosan-ri excavated 1990s, quarry wedge holes match capstone, UNESCO 2000.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Fontainhas — Alentejo Dolmen with Painted Orthostat
Neolithic (3500 BCE) Alentejo dolmen Fontainhas with painted serpent Hunt Panel · Ourique Alentejo dolmen art
Fontainhas painted 3500 hunt scene oldest Alentejo dolmen painting.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Anta Grande do Zambujeiro — Largest Iberian Dolmen 7.2 m
Neolithic (4000–3500 BCE) largest Iberian dolmen · Alentejo Neolithic megalithic Zambujeiro builder lineage
Anta Grande Henriksson and earlier 1965, 4000 BCE largest Iberia.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Hospitalet Vell — Talayotic Naveta Proto Village Manacor
Pre-Talayotic (1800 BCE naveta) → Talayotic (1200–800 BCE talayot additions) · Balearic naveta → Talayotic transition Hospitalet 1800 naveta total
Hospitalet Vell Rosselló 1970, naveta 12 m transition 1800–1100.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Son Fornés — Talayotic Three-Talayot Fortified Village Centre Mallorca
Talayotic (1000 BCE–100 BCE Son Fornés chiefdom; Talayot 1 1100 BCE, 2 500 BCE, 3 400 BCE) · Talayotic Mallorca village with 105 iron swords hydria? Iron age 1100–100 BCE + Post-Talayotic 550 BCE houses
Son Fornés Gasperini 1970s, triple talayot 1100–400, 105 iron.