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Pages in category "Megalithic monuments in France" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
The French ministry of culture lists the following numbers of megalithic monuments: Menhirs: 1172 Dolmen: 1349 Carnac stones, Brittany; Mégalithes du causse de Blandas [], over 80 megaliths exist on the Blandas plateau in the Massif Central ( Gard department) in southern France.
The Coma Enestapera dolmen is described in detail, with photos and plan, in Josep Tarrús Galter's thesis, defended in 1999 and published in 2002, which includes an exhaustive inventory of megalithic monuments in the cross-border Pyrenees between Roussillon and Alt Empordà, [16] then in 2011 by Jean Abélanet in a book describing megalithism ...
The ancient Roman empire began invading modern-day France in the second century B.C., according to Britannia. By 50 B.C., they took control of the region and named it Gaul. By 50 B.C., they took ...
The symbols on the engraved blocks resemble those found in other megalithic monuments in Brittany; in broader terms they belong to the cultural phenomenon described as megalithic art. One of the recurring symbols is sometimes interpreted as an anthropomorphic depiction (the so-called "Dolmen Goddess").
The Broken Menhir of Er Grah. The Locmariaquer megaliths are a complex of Neolithic constructions in Locmariaquer, Brittany.They comprise the elaborate Er-Grah tumulus passage grave, a dolmen known as the Table des Marchand [1] and "The Broken Menhir of Er Grah", the largest known single block of stone to have been transported and erected by Neolithic people.
Gavrinis (Breton: Gavriniz) is a small island in the Gulf of Morbihan in Brittany, France. It contains the Gavrinis tomb, a Neolithic passage tomb built around 4200–4000 BC, making it one of the world's oldest surviving buildings. Stones inside the passage and chamber are covered in megalithic art.
The Ménec alignments, the best-known megalithic site among the Carnac stones Stones in the Kerlescan alignments Megalithic alignments at Carnac Le Menec alignments. The Carnac stones (Breton: Steudadoù Karnag) are an exceptionally dense collection of megalithic sites near the south coast of Brittany in northwestern France, consisting of stone alignments (rows), dolmens (stone tombs), tumuli ...