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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Irish Portal Tomb
Massive portal tomb between Hilltown and Castlewellan, granite capstone on cairn with north cist, c.3500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware Neolithic (Maeshowe group)
Maeshowe-type cairn on hill above Firth with 5 m crawl passage to chamber containing human and dog skulls.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Neolithic to Chalcolithic (c.6000–3200 BCE, type-site 5000 BCE) · Kili Gul Mohammad → Togau → Kechi Beg → Damb Sadaat
Type-site for earliest South Asian farming (5000 BCE) — 15 m high Quetta Valley Neolithic mound.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Vendée Atlantic
Paired dolmens (Virante I and II) near Soullans, Vendée, shared mound, c.3500 BCE.
🇲🇹 Malta · Megalith
Neolithic (Ġgantija phase) · Maltese Temple culture
Pair of cloverleaf temples with walls to 6 m high, coralline blocks >50 t, among earliest free-standing stone structures (c.3600 BCE), surrounded by massive outer wall on Gozo plateau.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Preseli Early Neolithic
Wales' largest portal dolmen with 16-tonne capstone on three 2.4 m orthostats.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early to Middle Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Two-phase Neolithic long barrow near Uffington with sarsen passage grave overlain on earlier oval mound.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Windmill Hill / Late Neolithic Wessex
Largest megalithic stone circle in Europe (11.5 ha), enclosing outer bank and ditch and two inner circles. Village of Avebury sits partially within the monument.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Early to Late Neolithic · Alentejo Megalithic
Western arc of Almendres Cromlech (c. 6000–3000 BCE), the largest stone circle in Iberia with 95 granite menhirs in elliptical setting.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle to Late Neolithic · Armorican Neolithic
Over 3,000 standing stones in three major alignments (Ménec, Kermario, Kerlescan) extending 4 km, plus dolmens and tumuli. Earliest European megalithic region (Antiquity 2025).
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Beira Alta Megalithic
Polygonal anta (dolmen) north of Gouveia, part of Beira Alta megalithic cluster (c. 3800–3200 BCE), with 7 granite orthostats, short corridor and tumulus remnant on granite plateau.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware Orcadian
Major Late Neolithic walled enclosure (c.3200–2300 BCE) between Ring of Brodgar and Stenness, with monolithic structures including Structure 10 (25 m hall) with painted stone, tiled roof and imported…
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Funnel Beaker (TRB)
Funnel Beaker (TRB) extended dolmen (c. 3500–2800 BCE) at Nobbin, Rügen Island, 30 m trapezoid enclosure with guard stones, chamber with 3 capstones and Neolithic depositions.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Tell
Late Neolithic · Vinča
Eponymous tell of Vinča culture (c. 5700–4500 BCE) on Danube bank, 10 m high stratified mound with 9 m cultural deposit, pit houses, kilns and famous Vinča figurines, script-like signs and early…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn / Windmill Hill
Neolithic long barrow on the Ridgeway (c. 3600 BCE) with two phases: early mortuary enclosure and later trapezoidal mound covering cruciform chamber of sarsen and oolite.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Armorican Late Neolithic
Gallery dolmen (allée couverte) at Trégastel, Côte de Granit Rose (c. 3200–2600 BCE), 11 m long gallery in pink granite with 16 orthostats and capstones, entrance flanked by portal stones, tumulus…
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Earthwork
Late Neolithic Arabian mustatil horizon · Northwest Arabian pastoralists
14 mustatil enclosures (5180-5050 BCE) at AlUla-Sharaan, densest sandstone cluster with betyl solstice alignment.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Earthwork
Late Neolithic, Arabian Mustatil horizon · Northwest Arabian Neolithic pastoralists
19 high-altitude mustatil enclosures (5300-5000 BCE) on Harrat Uwayrid basalt at 1320 m, northernmost field.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Neolithic (2900–2500 BCE) · British Late Neolithic (Humberhead fen communities)
45-m Late Neolithic corduroy trackway (2900–2500 BCE) over Hatfield pool to platform — earliest in Britain.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Vindhyan Neolithic (7000–3500) → Chalcolithic (3500–2000 BCE) · Vindhyan Neolithic (Koldihwa–Mahagara) → Chalcolithic
Belan Valley Neolithic type-site (c.7000–2000 BCE) on the Belan River 80 km southeast of Prayagraj (Allahabad) — Koldihwa (with Mahagara adjacent) excavated 1973–76 by G.R. Sharma and J.M.
🇪🇸 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.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Archaeological wonder
Neolithic (Late Pottery Neolithic, 5300–5000 BCE) · Northwest Arabian Neolithic (Uwayrid pastoral)
52 Uwayrid North mustatils (5320–5070 BCE) — northernmost and only bichrome-basalt–sandstone variants.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Neolithic (6500–3500) → Chalcolithic (3500–2000) → Iron Age · Vindhyan Belan Neolithic (Koldihwa–Mahagara)
Complementary Belan Valley Neolithic–Chalcolithic settlement (c.6500–2000 BCE) 5 km downstream of Koldihwa on the Belan River near Mahagara village — excavated together with Koldihwa (1975–77) by G.R.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Cemetery
Neolithic 4000–3500 BP Da But→Phung Nguyen mosaic · Man Bac — Da But hunter to East Asian Neolithic admixture (Austroasiatic migration)
Man Bac Cemetery — Neolithic cemetery (c.4000–3500 BP, Phung Nguyen fringe) at Yen Mo karst 25 km S Ninh Binh, excavated 1999–2007 Australian–Vietnamese (Oxenham).
