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- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus abstract "Concentrations of megaliths, dolmens (Adyghe: исп-унэ) and stone labyrinths dating between the end of the 4th millennium and the beginning of the 2nd millennium B.C. have been found (but little studied) throughout the Caucasus Mountains, including Abkhazia. Most of them are represented by rectangular structures made of stone slabs or cut in rocks with holes in their facade. These dolmens cover the Western Caucasus on both sides of the mountain ridge, in an area of approximately 12,000 square kilometres of Russia and Abkhazia. The Caucasian dolmens represent a unique type of prehistoric architecture, built with precisely dressed large stone blocks. The stones were, for example, shaped into 90-degree angles, to be used as corners or were curved to make a circle.While generally unknown in the rest of Europe, these structures are equal to the great megaliths of Europe in terms of age and quality of architecture, but are still of an unknown origin. In spite of the variety of Caucasian monuments, they show strong similarities with megaliths from different parts of Europe and Asia, like the Iberian Peninsula, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and India. A range of hypotheses has been put forward to explain these similarities and the building of megaliths on the whole, but still it remains unclear. Approximately 3,000 of these megalithic monuments are known in the Western Caucasus, but more are constantly being found, while some are being destroyed. Today, many are in great disrepair and will be completely lost if they are not protected from vandals and general neglect. The North Caucasus Dolmens make up a lost city by the shore of the Black Sea. The dolmens could have been vaults and safes of metal objects and jewelry of metal workers and traders that were pillaged by the invading Scythians around the first millennium BC.".
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus thumbnail Dolmen_Russia_Kavkaz_Jane_1.jpg?width=300.
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- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus wikiPageWikiLink Abkhazia.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus wikiPageWikiLink Barents_Sea.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus wikiPageWikiLink Black_Sea.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Archaeology_of_Russia.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Archaeology_of_the_Caucasus.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Dolmens.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Megalithic_monuments_in_Europe.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Stone_Age_Europe.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus wikiPageWikiLink Caucasus_Mountains.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus wikiPageWikiLink Dolmen.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus wikiPageWikiLink Gelendzhik.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus wikiPageWikiLink Krasnodar_Krai.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus wikiPageWikiLink List_of_largest_monoliths_in_the_world.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus wikiPageWikiLink Megalith.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus wikiPageWikiLink Megalithic_art.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus wikiPageWikiLink Russia.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus wikiPageWikiLink Vera_Island.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus wikiPageWikiLink Western_Caucasus.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus wikiPageWikiLink White_Sea.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus wikiPageWikiLink Zhane_River.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus wikiPageWikiLink File:Dolmen_Russia_Kavkaz_Doguab_1.jpg.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus wikiPageWikiLink File:Dolmen_Russia_Kavkaz_Jane_1.jpg.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus wikiPageWikiLink File:Dolmen_pyramid_in_Mamed_canyon.jpg.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus wikiPageWikiLinkText "Dolmens of North Caucasus".
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus wikiPageWikiLinkText "dolmens in North-West Caucasus region".
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- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus subject Category:Archaeology_of_Russia.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus subject Category:Archaeology_of_the_Caucasus.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus subject Category:Dolmens.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus subject Category:Megalithic_monuments_in_Europe.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus subject Category:Stone_Age_Europe.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus type Monument.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus type Monument.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus type Redirect.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus type Site.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus comment "Concentrations of megaliths, dolmens (Adyghe: исп-унэ) and stone labyrinths dating between the end of the 4th millennium and the beginning of the 2nd millennium B.C. have been found (but little studied) throughout the Caucasus Mountains, including Abkhazia. Most of them are represented by rectangular structures made of stone slabs or cut in rocks with holes in their facade.".
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus label "Dolmens of North Caucasus".
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus sameAs Q4165131.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus sameAs Долмени_в_Западен_Кавказ.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus sameAs Category:Dolmens_of_Western_Caucasus.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus sameAs m.027jrft.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus sameAs Дольмены_Западного_Кавказа.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus sameAs Дольмени_Західного_Кавказу.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus sameAs Q4165131.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus wasDerivedFrom Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus?oldid=705451768.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus depiction Dolmen_Russia_Kavkaz_Jane_1.jpg.
- Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus isPrimaryTopicOf Dolmens_of_North_Caucasus.