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Info on popular culture and everyday life
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Info on popular culture and everyday life
On the Maltese island of Gozo stand the Ġgantija temples, raised around 3600 BC. Among the oldest freestanding structures on Earth, their giant stones were said to be the work of giants.
On a hillside near Évora in Portugal stands the Almendres Cromlech, nearly a hundred granite stones raised around 6000 BC. Older than Stonehenge and the pyramids, it is Iberia’s greatest megalithic monument.
In a quiet French valley stand the tumuli of Bougon, burial mounds raised around 4800 BC. Older than Stonehenge and the pyramids, they reveal how the first farmers honoured their dead in stone.
On a bluff in Almería, Los Millares was one of western Europe’s first towns — a Copper Age settlement ringed with stone walls, home to early metalworking and a vast necropolis of sun-facing tholos tombs.
On a drowned Breton island stands Gavrinis, a Neolithic passage tomb whose walls are almost entirely covered in swirling carvings — an artistic masterpiece created around 4000 BCE and then sealed away.
