Abstract
Standing stones and megalithic monuments are impressive remains from a remote prehistoric world that for the British Isles began some 6000 years ago and led to a cultural flowering that peaked in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age with the rise of fine megalithic monuments like Newgrange, Knowth, Drombeg, Maeshowe, Avebury and Stonehenge. Nearby on the European continent, what may be called an era involving megalithic culture had begun a few centuries earlier (as at Carnac and Locmariaquer), and still earlier in the Mediterranean lands and islands (e.g., the Tarxien Temple in Malta), south-eastern Europe, the Near and Middle East, and India beyond.
Highlights
Antedating and contemporary with the well-known grand megalithic edifices, many thousands of lesser monuments were built worldwide using standing stones in the form of the first chambered long barrows, court tombs and allées couvertes
Standing stones and megalithic monuments are impressive remains from a remote prehistoric world that for the British Isles began some 6000 years ago and led to a cultural flowering that peaked in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age with the rise of fine megalithic monuments like Newgrange, Knowth, Drombeg, Maeshowe, Avebury and Stonehenge
Erection of single stones and stone settings like these continued for many centuries, and after 3000 B.C.E. stone circles became numerous in Britain and Ireland
Summary
Antedating and contemporary with the well-known grand megalithic edifices, many thousands of lesser monuments were built worldwide using standing stones in the form of the first chambered long barrows, court tombs and allées couvertes. Standing stones and megalithic monuments are impressive remains from a remote prehistoric world that for the British Isles began some 6000 years ago and led to a cultural flowering that peaked in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age with the rise of fine megalithic monuments like Newgrange, Knowth, Drombeg, Maeshowe, Avebury and Stonehenge.
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