Science: Archaeology: Topics: Megaliths

Some of the most interesting megalithic and other archaeological sites in Europe.

Odile Prigent describes these great stone monuments and the Neolithic farmers who built them. Plans, drawings and photographs of the different types; important examples. French and English versions.

A chance discovery of a group of megaliths on a coastal plain in western Yemen has sent scholars scrambling to explain why and how people were living there between ca. 2400 and 800 B.C. Article from Archaeology.

Toti Calo's photographic book of megaliths in Europe and specifically Apulia, Italy.

Picture gallery and descriptions of megalithic sites in Western Europe. In English and German, with map interface.

Photographs and descriptions by St. Jakobi of a variety of ancient structures on the island of Menorca.

Provides information on megaliths in and around Osnabrck in North Germany, in English and German. Includes hiking trails [in German] and links.

Article by Paul Tudor Angel explores the possible origins of "odd rocks" found in the northeastern United States.

In Italy too, there are megalithic monuments.

Photographic guide to stone circles, megaliths and other prehistoric sites by Andy Burnham.

Web site and CD-ROM based on a doctoral dissertation submitted by Cornelius J. Holtorf to the University of Wales that explores the social and cultural meanings of megaliths from later prehistoric Mecklenburg-Vorpommern located in northeastern Germany.

A new megalithic complex has been discovered, second only to Carnac in size and importance in Europe. Set in the forested hill-country of the Istranca Mountains in Turkish Thrace, clustered around the sacred mountain of Muhittin Baba, lies a group of standing stone complexes of comparable complexity and size, with the total number of individual stones reaching over 2,000

Virtual visit to the prehistoric village of Talat de Dalt, Minorca,. In English, Spanish, Catalan, French, Deutsch and Italiano.

Virtual visit to the prehistoric village of Son Catlar, Minorca. In English, Spanish and Catalan.

Christine Burnett's photographs of Prehistoric sites of the British Isles. Includes stone circles, standing stones, burial chambers, etc.

Hans Meijer provides photographs, descriptions and the story behind all 54 megalithic hunebedden in Holland.