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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => History => Topic started by: rangerrebew on December 05, 2017, 02:45:05 pm
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One of Europe's longest lived megalithic cemeteries discovered in Granada
12/01/2017 06:00:00 PM
A group of archaeologists from the University of Granada has discovered and analysed a necropolis found in the Sierra Arana de Darro (Granada). This megalithic funerary space, between 5000 and 6000 years old, was in use for more than a millennium, making it the most long-lived in Granada and among the most enduring in Europe.
The 'GEA. Material culture and social identity in the recent Prehistory in the south of the Iberian Peninsula', of the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology of the University of Granada, has carried out excavations and the study of these funerary chambers in a polygonal or rectangular shape built with large slabs of stone, which can be accessed through small and narrow corridors.
Read more at https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2017/12/one-of-europes-longest-lived-megalithic.html#dpE1GI8wQIR9jGUt.99