Celtic
The word dolmen entered archaeology when Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne used … See more

Dolmens can be found in the Levant, some along the Jordan Rift Valley (Upper Galilee in Israel, the Golan Heights, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and southeast Turkey.
Dolmens in the Levant belong to a different, unrelated … See more

Marayoor,Kerala
Also called Muniyaras, these dolmens belong to the Iron Age. These dolmenoids were burial chambers made of four stones placed on edge and covered by a fifth stone called the cap stone. Some of these Dolmenoids contain … See more

• Cooney, Gabriel (2023). Death in Irish Prehistory. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 978-1-8020-5009-7.
• Holcombe, … See more

It remains unclear when, why and by whom the earliest dolmens were made. The oldest known are found in Western Europe, dating from c. 7,000 years ago. Archaeologists still do not know who erected these dolmens, which makes it difficult to know … See more

Dolmens were built in Korea from the Bronze Age to the early Iron Age, with about 40,000 to be found throughout the peninsula. In 2000, the dolmen groups of Jukrim-ri and Dosan-ri in Gochang, Hyosan-ri and Daesin-ri in Hwasun, and Bujeong-ri, … See more

• Irish megalithic tombs
• List of dolmens
• List of megalithic sites
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