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Menhir Filitosa III in an alignment in the Filitosa prehistoric settlement.
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Menhir Filitosa III in an alignment in the Filitosa prehistoric settlement.

Western cult monument, Filitosa prehistoric settlement. The "torres", cupola buildings of uncertain use, were surrounded by much older menhir-type megalith rocks which marked the entrance to what may have been a fortress or a center of cultic rites.
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Western cult monument, Filitosa prehistoric settlement. The "torres", cupola bui...

Western cult monument, Filitosa prehistoric settlement. The "torres", cupola buildings of uncertain use, were surrounded by much older menhir-type megalith rocks which marked the entrance to what may have been a fortress or a center of cultic rites.
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Western cult monument, Filitosa prehistoric settlement. The "torres", cupola bui...

Shelter under a huge rock. From the first occupation of Filitosa prehistoric settlement.
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Shelter under a huge rock. From the first occupation of Filitosa prehistoric...

View over the Filitosa prehistoric settlement. Men may have settled there as early as the 7th millenium BCE. Primitive shelters gave way to early mehirs, to finely sculpted anthropomorphic menhirs, to the final, cupola crowned "torre".
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View over the Filitosa prehistoric settlement. Men may have settled the...

The Gulf of Morbihan ("Little Sea"), location of 3000 megaliths, menhirs and dolmens in Brittany. 5000-2000 BCE. Neolithic to Early Bronze Age.
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The Gulf of Morbihan ("Little Sea"), location of 3000 megalit...

Lines of menhirs ending in a chromlech. There are 1099 upright stones arranged in thirteen rows in the alignment of Menec, Carnac,Brittany.
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Lines of menhirs ending in a chromlech. There are 1099 upright stones arra...

Hallstatt burial site, a collection of 19th century watercolours. Cover of collection: Hallstatt, Austria, and its lake. Johann Georg Ramsauer began excavations of the 980 tombs in 1846. Painted at the site by Isidor Engel in 1878.
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Hallstatt burial site, a collection of 19th century watercolours. Cover of c...

Hallstatt burial site, a collection of 19th century watercolours. Cover: Hallstatt, Austria, and its lake. Johann Georg Ramsauer began excavation of the 980 tombs in 1846. Drawing of the tombs by Isidor Engel in 1878.
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Hallstatt burial site, a collection of 19th century watercolours. Cover: Hal...

View of the Salzbergtal near Hallstatt. Slope of Niedere Sieg in the foreground. Here the Hallstatt burial site was discovered, which gave the "Hallstatt Period" (9th-5th BCE) its name.
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View of the Salzbergtal near Hallstatt. Slope of Niedere Sieg in...

View from the prehistoric saltmines at Hallstatt, Austria, across the likely site of habitations which have not yet been found.
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View from the prehistoric saltmines at Hallstatt, Austria, across the like...

View of Hallstatt lake and village. The burial site lies in middle-ground above the village.
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View of Hallstatt lake and village. The burial site lies in...