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10 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (c.3800–2500 BCE) · Los Millares / Alentejo Chalcolithic (tholos tradition)
Antequera hill tholos (corbelled dome 5.2 m) with 26 m corridor — Mediterranean-type beehive tomb 4 km north of Menga/Viera.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Chalcolithic (c.3000–2500 BCE) · Algarve Chalcolithic (Los Millares–Vila Nova de São Pedro group)
Alcalar (Chalcolithic 3000–2500 BCE) is a fortified hilltop settlement and 18-mound necropolis crowning the Alcalar ridge between Portimão and Lagos, Algarve, with the massive Monument 7 tholos: a…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Neolithic Halaf to Halaf-Ubaid Transition (6100–5300 BCE) · Halaf → Northern Ubaid (HUT)
Halaf-Ubaid Transition type-section — 10 m Halaf stratigraphy on Khabur headwater.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Chalcolithic (c.3000–2800 BCE) · Valencina Chalcolithic (Guadalquivir millares group)
Dolmen de Matarrubilla (Chalcolithic c.3000–2800 BCE) on the Aljarafe plateau above Valencina, Seville, is a 34-m corridor tholos with dry-stone chamber 2 m diameter capped by a 2-m granite capstone…
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze (c.3000–2000 BCE) · Valencina Chalcolithic–Ciempozuelos Bell Beaker
La Pastora (Chalcolithic c.3000–2500 BCE) is the longest tholos corridor in Iberia: a 43.5-m passage + terminal chamber on Cerro de La Pastora, Valencina, built of sandstone and slate slabs with the…
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Middle to Late Bronze Age · Nuragic civilisation
Giant Sardinian nuraghe at Torralba — 21 m central tower with three bastions and corbelled chambers, 1600-1200 BCE.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Halaf–Ubaid (c.5700–4200 BCE) · Halaf → Ubaid northern
Khabur headwaters Halaf–Ubaid tell 7 m high (tholoi, dark-faced ware) at spring source.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Bronze Age · Nuragic civilisation (Bronzo Medio/Recente)
UNESCO archetype nuraghe in central Sardinia — trilobate basalt tower with four bastions, tholos chambers and 55-hut village, 1500-1000 BCE.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Chalcolithic (Copper Age) · Los Millares culture
Copper Age fortified town near Almería (3200-2200 BCE) with walls, aqueduct and 80 tholos tombs defining Los Millares culture.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Chalcolithic · Valencina Copper Age / Los Millares horizon
Seville Chalcolithic tholos with 40 m corridor and sun-motif slabs, part of 400 ha Valencina copper town.
