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Western portal tomb of Kilclooney More (Dg. 68) The smaller portal tomb of Kilclooney More is located west of the R261, in a shallow basin north of the Abberachrin River. The eastern portal stone is missing but otherwise the tomb is well preserved. The chamber is comparatively small, measuring 1.45 m × 1.2 m, pointed in SSE direction.
The Knowlton Circles are a cluster of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments near Knowlton. [1] There are four enclosures, three are of normal henge form, Church Henge, Knowlton North and Knowlton South, and the fourth is a squarish enclosure known as Old Churchyard. [1]
Calibrated carbon-14 dates for Çatalhöyük, as of 2013 [1]. Çatalhöyük (English: Chatalhoyuk / ˌ tʃ ɑː t ɑː l ˈ h uː j ʊ k / cha-tal-HOO-yuhk; Turkish pronunciation: [tʃaˈtaɫhœjyc]; also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük; from Turkish çatal "fork" + höyük "tumulus") is a tell (a mounded accretion due to long-term human settlement) of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic ...
The Neolithic-era symbol of three conjoined spirals may have had triple significance similar to the imagery that lies behind the triskelion. [14] It is carved into the rock of a stone lozenge near the main entrance of the prehistoric Newgrange monument in now County Meath, Republic of Ireland . [ 13 ]
It consists of about 200,000 tonnes of material. The mound is 85 metres (279 ft) wide at its widest point [10] and 12 metres (39 ft) high, and covers 4,500 square metres (1.1 acres) of ground. Within the mound is a chambered passage, which may be accessed by an entrance on the southeastern side of the monument.
Knocknarea (/ n ɒ k n ə ˈ r eɪ /; Irish: Cnoc na Riabh) [2] is a large prominent hill west of Sligo town in County Sligo, Ireland, with a height of 327 metres (1,073 ft).). Knocknarea is visually striking as it has steep limestone cliffs and stands on the Cúil Irra peninsula overlooking the Atla
The Neolithic Revolution, also known as the First Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures during the Neolithic period in Afro-Eurasia from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, making an increasingly large population possible. [1]
The Megalithic Portal. Archived from the original on 1 October 2017; Miles, David (2016). The Tale of the Axe: How the Neolithic revolution transformed Britain. London, UK: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-05186-3. Pleger, T.C. (2002). A brief introduction to the Old Copper Complex of the western Great Lakes: 4000-1000 BC. Twenty-seventh Annual ...