Dolmens

Dolmens are the stone table-like structures from Neolithic times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolmen

Apparently they exist throughout the world. Isn't it strange that people who must have been extremely busy just finding enough to eat took the time to construct these things?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/...in_Johfiyeh_Irbid_north_of_Jordan_Dec2009.jpg

Thanks, those stone circles are interesting too.

What I find strange about the dolmens is that they are all over the world. Either there was a somewhat shared culture or there is some primal inclination to make table-like structures from rocks.

Sometimes glaciers left rocks precisely balanced on other rocks. I was wondering if this might have inspired primitive people to replicate this uncommon occurrence to give significance of some kind to a location?

Apparently archaeologists believe the dolmens were a chamber inside a burial mound that has eroded away, but they have not found signs of burials. I have wondered if these were territorial markers for a tribe? Or maybe they were memorials of some kind? The Bible says the Israelites erected rocks to memorialize their entry into the promised land.

Megaliths and cairns are interesting too.

smaneck said:

Here is what I find really remarkable because it dates back to Paleolithic times:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gobekli-tepe-the-worlds-first-temple-83613665/?no-ist

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Apparently there are other sites with similar T-shaped stones that might give insight into the culture, but Syria built a dam so they are now submerged.

I think instead of a temple it was a visitor center in an ancient wildlife refuge.