• Megalithic Cultures of Europe

    1. Sassoon

      "What is stonehenge; it is the roofless past; Man's runious myth; his uninterred adoring; of the unknown in sunrise cold and red; His quest of stars that arch his doomed exploring. and what is time but shadows that were cast by these ... seigfried sasson(1961)

    2. Defined

      1. majority of neolithic megalith builders concentrate in 4000-2000 BC

      2. Coastal Areas of Europe

      3. Like Adena and Hopewell, these folks share certain beliefs.

    3. Types of Megalith

      1. Menhir

        1. Carnac, France

        2. largest 75 feet tall

        3. hundreds and hundreds of stones

          1. some in rows

          2. circles

        4. Why?

      2. Tombs

        1. dolmen

          1. Topic

        2. passage grave

          1. Topic

        3. gallery grave

          1. Topic

        4. Henge

          1. Topic

      3. multiple individuals with no high qual grave goods

    4. Earlier and Later Tomb movements

      1. earlier

        1. youthful farmers

      2. later

        1. chiefdom

    5. Stonehenge, England

      1. location

        1. salisbury plain, SW England

      2. part of a much larger ceremonial complex

      3. time

        1. built between 3000 and 1500 B.C.

      4. use?

        1. astronomical measurement instrument

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