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The Dolmen of Menga must have been extremely important to those who built it. It has such impressive construction and layout. It is so well executed with apparently locally sourced material. A marvelous survivor from prehistory. It’s also interesting that it has a unique orientation. That again emphasizes the importance the builders put on it. Marvelous info! Thanks Laura!
"hey! tell ya what, Grog....let's go over ta that cliff over there and drag some a them big assed rocks over here an' create sumthin'. ok?" "naaahhh, Stephen, let us not and say we did...eh, ole chap?" wasn't just a whim, i'm sure.....would be so cool to find.....something.....that would give us a clue....as you say, had to be incredibly important...guess we need Mr Peabody's way-back machine, yes?😅
Barry! Floyd! Howdy. Yes. Interesting. More so on reflection. Now I read a comment in the live stream from Canadian-somebody-or-other, who claimed to be a stone mason laborer and that moving such stones was no problem. Maybe yes, maybe no. I just don’t know about such. Every rock I ever had to move was a chore. Small ones at that too. Like Barry, I tumbled on the alignment. Anytime your in a crowd with everybody except one guy looking in the same direction, I’m inclined to see what the odd man out is looking at. That’s been my secret to a long life. That and knowing when to duck. Now. In one respect this is not a new story. Local people long time ago get a wild hare up, get some rocks, build a thing. What’s different here? Well it’s not the largest. Nor did they cut the rocks some silly distance away and drag them back. Not Stacy them to dizzy heights. Nor finish them with classical precision. As far as dolmens go it was typical. Middle of the road. Just one more of several, odd only in its orientation. And yet. Think of the time. And what we perceive of the population that built that. And the effort. Look at the dating. You probably did not have one guy or even a group of guys that built several of these in their lifetime. Probably one dolman might be built in one area every third generation? So how did they obtain the “common knowledge”. The organizational skill. Who was the architect? Being mostly likely hunters at that time how did they develop and maintain the skill to build such? Or even if they had rudimentary agriculture? Look at the classical and medieval stone masons. They were a guild. Trained and specialized. And they traveled about great distances. From job to job building castles and cathedrals to maintain that skill and pass it on to their apprentice. That is the “critical mass” of a civilization. And that is what appears to be lacking in these stone age cultures. I think that Canadian may be right. It’s now insane labor that got the job done. It’s know-how. And know how has to be developed, maintained and perpetuated. Maybe what we should marvel at is “how they do that?”. Without leaving any other evidence of a culture or society with such skills? Where are the stone huts? The foundations of more modest projects? Anything else made of stone surviving from their time? Ponder that. Fox out
@@vulpesvulpes5177 okay, okay! yours makes a whole lot more sense than mine. however, mine was funnier? yes, the whole idea of those folks, at that time, with little technology, were able to move such rocks and erect the dolmens is, to say the least, astounding. someone, in each of those clans, tribes or whatever, was, perhaps, a stone-age Einstein. my take, anyway. as for pondering? things like this have me pondering continuously......mostly to no avail.....aaahhh, flux, flux, where forth art thou, fffllluuuxxx........
The knowledge to carve and move stones with 150 t and about their specifics does not come over night. I'm sure there are much older edifices we just not have found yet.
Just found a book Malta: An Archaeological Guide it was re-printed a number of times,but this is from 1997 and is a proper record that you can get on Ebay. My mother brought it in Turkey years ago.
the orientation of Menga towards the giant human profile is awesome to behold regardless of the industrial park that has sprung up between them in more recent history.
Very enjoyable thank you. Practical reason: to tell the time? Google Earth shows the Dolmen de Viera facing just south of east (Heading 96 degrees) and the equinox, not S of SE. Dolmen de Menga faces the mountain, (Heading 48 degrees) just north of sunrise on the summer solstice. Solstice heading is 55 degrees (approx from GE). The passageways are wide and have some angular splay of several degrees.
The profile of la peña de los enamorados is reminiscent of a face. Its very striking. The medieval name is just from a standard lovers leap story. Nothing to do with the the dolmens of course. Antequera is interesting in itself. From its trade mark breakfast buns, molletes, to its old and rather dilapidated buildings and, right on top of its hillside the substantial remains of its castle. I dont think theres any disabled access as its stairs all the way but there may also be road for a taxi. Brilliant views from the top though.
I remember going into that and other Dolmens early seventies to cool down as it gets very hot in summer in Antequera and freezing in winter. I found El Torcal spooky especially when camping !
It seems to me that despite the local differences amongst the megalith building cultures of Europe's far West there must be some common knowledge on how to build such structures due to, most probably, them sharing common beliefs that brought them all to take on such a hard labor.
Also remember that contact over land would most probably be difgicult. The sea from Iberia up the coast of France with a short hop over to Cornwall and Ireland and on up to the Orkneys might well have been easier. But I thought I heard recently that all this stone shifting started in Brittany. I must say that surprised me. So maybe im wrong. Am looking forward to updates on the recently found megaliths near Huelva. I bet the chap who wanted to plant avocados is annoyed.
So Happy New Year! Gorgeous interior. So this tomb may have included someone who actually visited Atlantis, and which tomb is situated along the great golden trade route heading out through Gibraltar and up the Atlantic seaboard as far as Sweden and out into the Atlantic with megalithic monuments dotting the way. So megaliths represented power, authority, strength and even religious purpose; add to that wealth or status.
cool, Laura! looks like a place i'd want to crawl into.....and die.....perhaps that's why so many human bones were found?😅 i've always been attracted to caves or hidey holes, so... perhaps they, too? fascinating that they built different structures with different aspects.....seems everthing wasn't always set up the same....with the right reasons, they could make them unique. gonna hafta read up on these.....don't know enough about 'em, yet.....see ya next time, me lovely😘
Don’t go crawling around too much or you might get stuck! When I was a teenager we used to go on school trips to Yorkshire and see all those crazy people that dive in cave systems while we were hiking. Gives me a panic attack just thinking about it 😂
@@MegalithHunter aaahhh, thanks, Laura! yeah, i love to go spelunking but, the diving into flooded caverns.....definitely NOT my cuppa😮 pip, pip, tut, tut, all that rot🥸🙃
Soft sediment remaining from the global flood was shaped to create the first cathedrals. Post flood giants created shrines to the ark of Noah. The upper stone is the altar, where sacrifices were performed.Noah performed the first animal sacrifice after the deluge.
Definitely not a Bronze age build, yet a repourposed Cript! The roadway, (to transfer these Megolithic Megablocks would have been massive, & is probably still 30 feet underground. Until you learn how to move, Quarry, & lift 150 TON Stones; & to Carve out WHOLE Mountain's then probably you won't be able to do this again,[EVER], even till today! If you did know how, then what caused you to forget this? Orientation might be effected by Continental Drifting, (720,000 years ago). Then they might have been Solar, & magnetically aligned.
I don't think there's any argument that orientations with the solstices and equinoxes were relevant from time immemorial. Each of these was accompanied by major feasts that have been subsumed by Christian holy days. Was the construction oriented with the sacred mountain? Most mountains and many hills were sacred, as were pools, bogs, lakes, rivers, caves, groves and particular trees. IMO it is more likely that the N-E orientation was to do with the rising midsummer sun and the mountain a fortunate coincidence.
