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🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Megalithic Iron Age (500 BCE–100 CE) → Early Historic Sangam Chera 300 BCE–300 CE · Megalithic Tamil → Sangam Early Tamil (Early Historic South India)
Megalithic–Early Historic industrial village and cemetery (c.500 BCE–300 CE) on the Noyyal River near Erode — 40 ha settlement + 40 cairn-circle Megalithic burial ground with menhirs, excavated…
🇪🇸 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.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Neolithic – Early Copper Age (c.3850–3000 BCE) · Antequera Chalcolithic / Alcoreños
Antequera World Heritage (70 m from Menga) — 21 m corridor dolmen with 27 orthostats and equinox orientation.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Chalcolithic (c.4000–3000 BCE) · Alentejo Megalithic
Squared (7 x 7 m) Alentejo cromlech of 55 small monoliths around 4 m phallic central menhir with cupules — moved for Alqueva dam.
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
South Indian Neolithic (2500–1000 BCE) → Megalithic Iron (1000–300) → Mauryan (260 BCE) → Satavahana · Southern Neolithic → Megalithic → Mauryan (Ashoka)
Southern Deccan Neolithic–Megalithic–Mauryan hill complex (c.2500 BCE–300 CE) at Brahmagiri granite dome near Molakalmuru, Chitradurga — 1 km outcrop with Neolithic ash-mound, Megalithic cists and…
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Late Intermediate pre-Inca hypothetically Chachapoya fringe or colonial hypothesis Late Intermediate contested · Chachapoyas fringe / possibly 19th c. coffee retaining (unvalidated)
Megalithic andesite wall 80×3.2 m on Caynarachi terrace 1100 m — polygonal dry coursing with chamfer notch, terrace 40×30 m, ware 800–1400 CE.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Early Neolithic – Chalcolithic (c.3500–2800 BCE) · Alentejo Megalithic (Almendres tradition)
Reguengos twin antas in shared mound — Anta 1 with 16 m corridor, 4 m polygonal chamber and schist plaques (3500 BCE).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.3800–3600 BCE) · Western Neolithic (Pembrokeshire)
Cliff-top portal dolmen near Abercastle harbour — massive capstone (4.7 m) on three orthostats with sea backdrop.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.3800–3600 BCE) · Western Neolithic (Pembrokeshire)
Headland portal dolmen (capstone 5 x 3 m) on St Davids Head cliff overlooking Whitesands Bay — Neolithic coastal tomb.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Southern Neolithic 2800–1200 BCE → Megalithic 1000 BCE · Southern Neolithic Ash Mound → Megalithic
Giant 15 m ash mound (2800–1200 BCE) at Kudatini Ballari — three-burnt dung lenses with megalithic circle on summit.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Vidarbha Megalithic 1100–300 BCE → Maurya 300–187 → Sunga–Satavahana 187 BCE–250 CE → Vakataka 250–500 CE · Vidarbha Megalithic → Mauryan → Satavahana → Vakataka (Vidarbha Early Historic)
Vidarbha fortress-city Padmavati on Wainganga (1100 BCE–300 CE) — 4 km rampart with two Satavahana stupas (38 m) and megalithic-to-Mauryan continuity.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.3800–3200 BCE) · Neolithic Anglesey (Irish Sea province)
Anglesey portal dolmen with wedge capstone on five stones — small Neolithic tomb in farmland south of Gaerwen.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle to Late Neolithic (c.4800–3500 BCE) · Armorican Neolithic (Carnac tradition)
Largest Carnac alignment — 982 menhirs in 10 rows (1,120 m) between Ménec and Kerlescan with Kermario dolmen inside.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Late Neolithic (c.4000–3500 BCE) · Alentejo Megalithic (Évora tradition)
U-shaped Alentejo cromlech (34 menhirs, 10 x 12 m) near Almendres — open eastern entrance intermediate to squared Xerez.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.3800–3600 BCE) · Neolithic Anglesey
Twin Neolithic chamber tombs in single long cairn near Presaddfed — west chamber with 5 m capstone best preserved.
🇸🇾 Syria · Megalith
PPNB to Middle Bronze Age (8700–2000 BCE; dolmens EB I–MB) · PPNB (southern Syria) → Ghassulian → EBA Hauran megalithic
PPNB ritual tell capped by Syria's largest basalt dolmen necropolis (>200 dolmens).
🇦🇹 Austria · Megalith
Late Neolithic (Lengyel to Early Baden, c.3500–3300 BCE) · Lengyel late / Epilengyel–Baden
The Ziersdorf passage grave (Lengyel/Baden transition c.3500–3300 BCE) is Austria's most northerly megalithic tomb, a 5-m limestone chamber with 1.8-m passage within a 12-m round mound on the…
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle to Late Neolithic (c.4800–3500 BCE) · Armorican Neolithic (Carnac tradition)
Eastern Carnac alignment: 555 stones in 13 rows (880 m) ending in semicircular cromlech and 6.5 m Manio giant.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early to Middle Neolithic (c.4500–3000 BCE) · Carnac Neolithic (Castellic/Chasséen-derived Atlantic)
Ménec (Early–Middle Neolithic c.4500–3000 BCE) is the westernmost and largest Carnac alignment: 11 parallel rows 1,167 m long with 1,099 menhirs descending from a western cromlech (egg-shaped 100 ×…
🇸🇾 Syria · Megalith
Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age (c.4500–3000 BCE), some PPN reuse · Leja megalithic (Ghassulian–EB I)
Leja dolmen necropolis (232 dolmens, Chalcolithic–EB, basalt capstones 5 t) south of Tell Qarassa.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Southern Neolithic 3000–1200 BCE → Megalithic–Iron 1000 BCE–100 CE · Southern Neolithic → Megalithic (Bellary)
Ballari granite hill Neolithic–Megalithic village (3000 BCE–100 CE) with burnished ware and iron cists on dolerite axe ridge.
🇧🇪 Belgium · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200–2500 BCE) · Seine-Oise-Marne (SOM) — Atlantic Neolithic
Concentrated group of two gallery dolmens (Wéris I and Oppagne), three menhir fields and the Danthine and Oppagne stone alignments on a 8 km ridge near Wéris in the Ardennes.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (c.7400–6800 BCE) · PPNB (southern Levantine highland)
PPNB cliff village (c.7400–6800 BCE, siq access, 2500-bead necklace, painted plaster) 14 km N Petra.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Klein Upahl Megalithic Grave in Mecklenburg, Ludwigslust-Parchim, Germany is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c.
