The Megalith Builders |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
appearance archaeological evidence architecture astronomical Atlantic Europe Avebury Beaker bones Breton Britain British Brittany building built Carbon 14 carvings centre Chalcolithic chambered cairns collective burial collective tombs corbelled culture decorated ditch drystone Durrington Walls earliest Early Bronze Age early Neolithic entrance evolution excavations flint fourth millennium BC geometrical Grange Grooved ware henge horned hybridization Iberia Ireland Irish kilometres Knowth large numbers late Neolithic later layer lintels long barrows long cairn Los Millares Malta Maltese massive Mediterranean megalith builders megalithic chamber megalithic passage megalithic tombs megalithic yards metres metres in diameter midden middle Neolithic monuments mound Neolithic and Chalcolithic Orkney passage graves perhaps period phase Photo population Portugal pottery prehistoric probably professional priesthood radiocarbon dates rock-cut tombs roof sarsen Scotland seems settlement side-chambers similar Skara Brae society south-west southern England standing stones stone circles Stonehenge suggested Tarxien temple-building temples third millennium BC Thom Vila Nova village