List of dolmens
Supposedly the dolmens were used to hide and protect metal objects: gold, silver, bronze, jewels and some other treasure.
[citation needed] A large group of dolmens along the Huifa River in Jilin Province were listed as a Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level in 2006.
[6] Serious studies of the Korean megalithic monuments were not undertaken until relatively recently, well after much research had already been conducted on dolmens in other regions of the world.
In 1981 a curator of National Museum of Korea, Gon'gil Ji, classified Korean dolmens into two general types: northern and southern.
[5] Due to the vast numbers and great variation in styles, no absolute chronology of Korean dolmens has yet been established.
[14][15] Dolmens in the Levant are a different, unrelated tradition to that of Europe, although they are often treated "as part of a trans-regional phenomenon that spanned the Taurus Mountains to the Arabian Peninsula.
[14] They are mostly found along the Jordan Rift Valley's eastern escarpment, and in the hills of the Galilee, im clusters near Early Bronze I proto-urban settlements (3700–3000 BCE), additionally restricted by geology to areas allowing the quarrying of slabs of megalithic size.
[14] In the Levant, geological constraints led to a local burial tradition with a variety of tomb forms, dolmens being one of them.
[citation needed] In northern Somalia, the town of Aw Barkhadle is surrounded by a number of ancient structures.
Hunebedden are chamber tombs similar to dolmens and date to the middle Neolithic (Funnelbeaker culture, 4th millennium BCE).
They consist of a kerb surrounding an oval mound, which covered a rectangular chamber of stones with the entrance on one of the long sides.
Pottery uncovered in these structures allowed the attribution of the monuments to the Ġgantija and Mnajdra temples culture of the early Neolithic Age.
[21] Dolmen sites fringe the Irish Sea and are found in south-east Ireland, Wales, Devon and Cornwall.
In Mecklenburg and Pomerania/Pomorze in Germany and Poland, and in Drenthe in the Netherlands, large numbers of these graves were disturbed when harbours, towns, and cities were built.
