10 AMAZING MEGALITHIC SITES from around the world that are NOT Göbekli Tepe or Stonehenge
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 20. 07. 2024
- Stonehenge and Gobekli Tepe are amazing but there are thousand and thousands of other megalithic sites all over the world that deserve attention too.
Here, we cream off ten of our favourite sites that we think deserve a wider audience - and maybe we can surprise you with a few you may not have even heard of!
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:00:37 - 1: DOLMEN DE MENGA | Passage Grave, Spain
00:13:35 - 2: BORI KALIMBUANG | Standing stone complex, Sulawesi
00:22:21 - 3: SENEGAMBIAN STONE CIRCLES | Stone circle complexes, West Africa
00:33:07 - 4: MSOURA | Tumulus & Stone Circle, Morrocco
00:43:26 - 5: GUSAN-DONG | Dolmen, South Korea
00:51:45 - 6: CARAHUNGE | Megalithic Complex, Armenia
01:01:10 - 7: HAGAR QIM | Megalithic Temple Complex, Malta
01:10:20 - 8: ALMENDRES | Stone Circle Complex, Portugal
01:21:24 - 9: ALES STENAR | Megalithic Stone Ship Monument, Sweden
01:29:09 - 10: CALLANISH | Standing Stone Complex, Scotland
01:38:40 - Round up & Goodbyes
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Is this the first video of its kind, Showing all of these little known sites?
This is somewhat of a profundity.
Monty Donsâ âAround the World in 80 Gardensâ seems like a great basis for an
âAround the World in 80,000 Megalithic Sitesâ !
I may live long enough to watch the Full Series ! đ
"Oh, hell yeah!" was my exclamation when a new Prehistory Guys video showed up in my notifications.
Mine too, and almost 2 hours worth? Yes!!
my favorite site, I live at the bottom of, the damage done by farmers to the megalith and other smaller standing stones is unforgivable to me. My gut just screams that this site is super important, it is the most ideal location for viewing the coast and neighboring valleys. I would love to get a thermal camera, I'm certain there is more up there than meats the eye. Drummau mountain in South Wales is special for all kinds of reasons, we get ball lightning, we have hydrothermal fault lines, pendant sand stone, the south Wales coal field and the theory of evolution was cooked up by Alfred Wallace who seemed to love this mountain, almost as much as I do......The minerals I find are interesting too....also this year people are starting to talk about that enormous black cat that was sniffing me last year, almost as big as a lion at the zoo. I always believed in those wild black cats, but I was expecting them to be smaller than most dogs and only in unpopulated areas. I could hear loud breathing, so I got up and started looking for a lost cow, but when I walked 30 yards away from my bag, I hear a loud thud and see that huge thing running downhill, leaves and tree debris falling onto my bag from the branches above. I'm hoping to see it again one day.
Our species is a bloody strange one. Thanks for the content. It's curing the itch I have for more pre-history content. Kudos
Finally we get it!
Pre history is prehistoric.
It's beyond the idiots level of documented knowledge.
Of course it is!
I'm smarter than that.
Nice surprize! Thanks guys.
đđđ oh sirs, thank you for this!! I'm gonna gobble this up.
You two are engaging and informative. What more could I ask ?
Thank you for this secret trove of sites. I will definitely researching some of these further.
Have you heard about the recent outrage at Carnac? Apparently thirty-nine stones have been bull-dozed to clear a site for a DIY store. Shameful!
Typical alsođĄ
The mayor of the town is corrupt, allowing this to happen.
For a damn DIY store? That's insulting...
I live in Brittany, and it seems to be true- people (but not enough) are up in arms. They're getting rid of sacred spaces all over France, from Notre Dame to Carnac. Wonder why?
@@suzannecranny9838 The church was built over a temple dedicated to Cernunnos. No one complained as there was danger of being murdered by the henchmen of the church. Times change.
Wonderful. Thank you for this. I learnt so much and thoroughly enjoyed.
Great video guys đ
Utterly, utterly BRILLIANT!
Really enjoyed that thank you guys so much I didnt know đ€
Thank you both ! Some really intriguing sites ! Would there be another, perhaps 11-20? All the best Jules đ
Good Monday afternoon from the cloudy windy SF Bay Area. Loved this show, I also love Standing with Stones which I have watched a couple of times, just might do it again today while I work. Thanks! Ta.
I love you two. Keep on keeping on guys. You are great!
Not sure why we are watching these two guys talking?? Id like to see more of these structures. Thanks
great viewing indeed and a nice revisit to create the grand finale
Really a great video, thanks for keeping my day interesting.
I enjoyed it immensely. Thank you, as always â€
What a wonderful survey of the monuments. Thank you,
Ahhh awesome! And a nearly 2hour video! Most grateful gents!
Fantastic video. Thank you so much for sharing your experience, insight and humor. Love it â€
Absolutely great video, i thank you so very much ! enjoyed each second watching and listening to it.
Just stumbled upon your channel and watched some videos. What a great content you have! Subscribed; definitely want to see much more.
Great survey, Guys. And very informative on design, type, etc. Thank you.
That's a terrific list of monumental 'stuff' - this time a much better, calm presentation too. Thank you both.
Thanks for the show. Bonus points for the use of Micheal's SWS musical bookends.
Well spotted Deorman! A true fan! Michael đ
Thank you. Really enjoyable :)
Thanks for putting this very interesting video together
Superb, gentlemen. Thank you.
Brilliant knowledge as usual fellowâs !!
Thank You đđ»
Would love to see a âStanding with stones: Megalithic sites of the world â you sorta hinted at it, keep your fans up to date?
Great content, as usual.
Now that was an unexpected bonus on a Sunday night. I'd love to see another on sites 11-20. Just a thought though, could the Gambia/Senegal and Morocco sites be a continuation of the West Coast sites of Portugal, Spain, Carnak, Cornwall, Wales, Isle of Man, Calinish etc.
Very logical idea - Your thesis seems a natural for the world those folks existed in . . . an idea well worthy of study in an age where 'information' has almost become overwhelming yet everything is on the net if you know how to look for it.
Iâd love to see a continuation of this!
Love a lot of this content. Don't like the laughter about how some people handle their deceased loved ones.
Excelent video....thanck you
Ive been saying this on a few channels, Spain is where to go to find something new its so big and so scarcely populated, I bet people would have known about ruins but these people have long gone a lot of people moved to cities so the knowledge is lost. I was looking at properties on think spain and I saw a cliff overhang that looked like parts of the cliff had collapsed and was all piled up against the overhang. And I saw on another photo there was a set of rocks sticking out and from the front it just looked normal but on a side it looked like a human head, when looking at the geology of the place it looks very ancient with geology that looks like Africa and India, id love to go spend time out there looking for stuff...
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Not prehistory related, but Eugenio Monesma has a channel called Lost Trades which is documentaries about skills and practices from the Spanish countryside. Wonderful, wonderful videos
A GREAT VIDEO THANKS GUYS, SHARE SHARE WITH EVERYONE
Thank you. Watching from Alaska.
Can you see Russia from your window đȘâ
Enjoyed this very muchâ€. What is missing from these sites nowadays are the animals and grains. Surely the sites now are sterile and dead except in our imaginations đđą
Breath taking!
someone else's video about the stone ships I've recommended to family members as something they might want to put in their gardens.
You are correct. The visitor centre at the Antequera dolmens has the video. The peña de los enamorados is one of several uplifted and tilted limestone outcrops. They are all weird shapes.
By the way. El Romerol points at ? A gap in the distant hills? Cant recall just now.
good video, but there is a problem in the Almendres cromlech, the dates are wrong it's not 6000 years ago it's 6000 BC, more or less 7500 years and they end in 3000 BC when the calgolitic begins but this is contested with the date 4 millennium bc but nearby there is the Portela de Mogos Cromlech this is dated in the 5 millennium bc and is confirmed, what is known and confirmed is that the neolithic period begins in iberia in 7000 bc so the date of 6000 bc is not very elusive, Something interesting it must be said that according to DNA research, the dates 5500 BC for the arrival of the farmers of Anatolia in the territory of the Iberian peninsula, who came from the Italian peninsula, but the archaeological record indicates that agriculture arrived first through north africa 1500 years before .
Any idea what happened to cause this discrepancy?
I often wonder what could have driven them to expend so much energy building circles and then begin to think of civil engineering and the costs/benefits of building circles. And CERN comes to mind.
I wish you would do more on the Temples of Malta specifically the underground temple the Hypogeum. .Thank you for including Malta in this video.
Thanks!
Thanks so much Amber!!
Cold hardy rice could arise many times but it wouldn't be noticed until there was a cold-snap and that was the only thing that went to seed because the rest of the crop failed.
It probably took the few hundred years to get it spread around. Not really an incremental thing to be cold hardy. You just have a surviving population that takes-over.
And we don't really select for cold hardiness beside minimum germination temps. What would be selected is reduced days to harvest.
Perhaps it was just short season to start and later acclimated itself to cold in the hundreds of years. Acclimation is important, it causes genetic changes over time, epigenetic stress stuff. Ten generations might be enough. Either way we will never know but there are a variety of avenues to take on it.
Stonehenge? Stones moved more than ten miles?
I really love you guys but what's with that horrible high pitched sound in the background?
†Ales Stenar the mysterious viking ship monument in Sweden is mosg probably a memorial to a large Viking ship that went down.
With regard to Dolmen de Menga, why do we assume it was a tomb? Seems an odd assumption. Especially with the well inside it. Was this a civic building where members of the community could get fresh water? A sort of public works / utility maybe? If you think about the investment of labor that went into the building of it, why would they do it unless it was an important benefit to the community.
Could you please speak a word on the
Montauban site in Occitania that held at least 39 megalithic stones, Being demolished for home improvement store.
Good grief, so t's not just in Brittany!
The heritage association Koun Breizh (= Breton memory) filed a complaint with the Prosecutor at Vannes for AGGRAVATED WILFUL DESTRUCTION of cultural property at Montaubin.
7: HAGAR QIM | Megalithic Temple Complex, Malta
Refers to the 33 year lunar-solar cycle? 1:05:45
The lunar-moon cycle, when the sun and moon align, repeats every 33 years.
Thanks for your video, research, and clever minds...
I just now discovered you two.
The show seams great, but I cannot get past the high pitched ding sounds from the background music
Callanish! WOW!
Hey Guys, thanks again! Being new to this everything makes my brain go in different directions, more especially when y'all get excited or intrigued about something. When Mr. Rupert was pointing out that one of the structures was 18.6 instead of 19 like the others, /3, 18.6 works out to be 6.2..... a 10 K. maybe it also a distance marker for something? i.e. if im "here" there is something 'known' 10 k away?
He's talking about the positioning of the stones.
To mark out sectors of the circle, you can only use a finite number of stones. So 19 is the closest approximation to 18.6 and for an even broader brush, 9 is the closest to 1/2 of 18.6.
Does anyone know of a stone circle that has 12 stones (for one solar year) There are other sites at Calanis besides Cal 1. Maybe one of those?
My cabeza is fuller after I listen to yâall đ
could the tweeaking be to compensate for axial progression over the thousand years ?
There must've been tweaking just in the whole learning process, but I often wonder if there were earlier prototypes of wooden markers which are a bit easier to shift about
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Carhunge' An experimental archeologist y,outuber (name escapes) says that only holes bored with metal wouuld be perfectly culindrical. Holes bored with flint are wider at both entry points. Narrower at the centre.
Cosmic Googlies Nice đžđșđŒđ»
Your presentation is amazing
What about newgrange megalithic site in Ireland?
They mentioned it several times
Rupert wasn't that impressed with the restoration of Newgrange. See Standing with Stones.
Would you be able to provide a link to the little animation film showing how the stones were erected at Dolmen de Menga? Impossible to find online.
Hi June,
you'll find it a little way down the page here:
porsolea.com/dolmen-de-menga-cultura-megalitica-en-espana/
@@ThePrehistoryGuys Thank you so much!
Montana Megalith are really cool. The Tizer Dolman and Ringing rocks are most popular. Julie Ryder is a little out there with her hypothesis. I would really love to see real Archeologist here to label this stuff to record. You see a lot of signs of the Olmec here too.
Right look here now Iâm from Wales and I never cherp up but Iâm telling you about stepping stones. I personally would find and add to long stones from my local quarry and land as a child and to this day to add to my local river and pond to walk over and sit around my bogged up allotments, observation and fishing areas. Itâs clear as day. And on top of that my Oldman is 87 and he still walks stones that no person around here can fathom moving and they donât know how he manages it, and Iâm not about to give it up to them. They will never work it out for themselves so good luck with that. Whatâs your honest rack and pinion on my forthcoming? Because walking mountains is actually more real to me because I am personally active in this process. Let the weight carry itself. Itâs where kung fu has relations. Let the weight carry itself. Bogs, ponds, streams and river ways. Water was present weather itâs what people like to think or not. They flood grounds. Or under ground water pressure release areas. Or water collection land. And could go on about a lot of oversight. HAPPY ACCIDENTS! Mountain top lakes! Before mountains were as big as they are or were. Weather now to then. Dinosaurs pissing and shitting. Can either or anybody of you relate to this at all?
I would love to hear your take on the Poverty Point site in Mississippi. Itâs quite ancient and very expansive
Itâs too poor to study
@@franklinminer itâs sad really
Surprised there was no mention of the medicine wheels of North America.
We really must do something separately on the medicine wheels. In this context though, they don't really count as 'megalithic' - the stone not being that big. Michael.
1:16:30 when you say "roughly" lines up with astronomical events, did you account for the Earth precession? As with other sites around the world Sirius, Orion, and the constellations as well as the sun & moon were important, but the locations have "drifted" over time and will return after a period of 25,920 years.
That requires work and thatâ$ extra
I thought Herkules is the Roman name of Herakles and that they are supposed to be the same person.
Now I'm wondering.
Recently a circle was found in Lake Michigan U.S.A... in Lake Michigan. I think we would find far more if we looked at areas that were considered ground during the last Ice Age.
What are your feelings on the French standing stones being demolished for hardware store?
Shocked. And sad.
It's never a good thing that we lose these remains. However, the press has blown what happened here out of all proportion. The stones in question are small and seem already to have been moved and used to make a field boundary wall by a farmer. There would have been very little chance of a date determination and these are certainly not a part of the Carnac or MĂ©nac alignments as has been implied by the press. Prior to this story, this collection of stones was barely known about. Michael.
@@ThePrehistoryGuys I think many people are still shocked. Bretons are very proud of Carnac's menhirs.
Thatâs reassuring, thank you. I thought theyâd completely lost the plot.
Was any astronomical analysis done on the sites?
Funny that a 'kist' is literally the word for a chest or (wooden) box in Dutch..
What's so funny then? It comes from the Greek kist (box) in the English language it also appears as cist.
@@Foxglove963 in German a box is a âkisteâ - so is German from Greek?
@@Foxglove963 I didnât know cist as an English word..
Is there a list of monumental sites available for tourists - on an international or national basis ? When you said you had been within 30 miles from the first site on this video, I thought this would have been handy.
Does anyone know when and if that unbearable ringing in the video stops?
There's a slight background interference on Rupert's track in the first 4 items but I wouldn't describe it as 'ringing' and it's not prominent. Sad that you're having this experience. Michael. đ
@ThePrehistoryGuys I just didn't have a good word for it and I'm overly sensitive to sounds like that. When I've got the time I'll just watch the first bits with subtitles. Thank you so much, I love the work you guys do!
@@ThePrehistoryGuysit really is intense for younger viewers I think older viewers donât experience it or even hear it possibly, but itâs definitely prominent in a lot of your videos :/
Oh dear. This one has put me firmly on the senior step. BCE or years ago. Metres or feet and inches. Fell asleep before the end. All hail the rewind button.
But no high pitched interference, and the smug knowledge that I've had my own brief affair with Calanais .
You've been correct up until now regarding sites not being 'sacred etc', don't spoil it now by thinking any of the Malta/Gozo constructions are 'temples' - they have a very specific function and are linked to the 'cart ruts'. Give it more head thinkin'. BTW the recessed door panels have been put back in the wrong place - they should be on the floor with the recess uppermost.
Whatâs your source? Maybe you should make a video.
What you are saying about Newgrange not been known about is not true. Newgrange became overgrown and inaccessible down through the centuries, but it was always known about and recorded in stories and myths down through to modern times. Even at the time of excavation, the local farmers in the area were able to point it out and explain what it was. I live in the local area. I am not sure where you got that information from? But whoever told you that was mistaken.
We have a Malaga in Western Australia, its pronounced Malarga
maybe some of them were religous spaces other than graves
Nan Clachan Calanais.Eilean leodhas Alba, Uabhasach mhath nach eil
Na tursaichean gu brath .
I'd like to suggest another tangent. I, myself, don't have the connections to follow this, but if I'm right, it would be important. Given several different threads, I follow, I surmise that iron smelting may have been discovered/invented in Western Africa. Why? Well there's one area that so far appears via archaeology to have had iron before bronze! King Tut had an iron dagger of which no one knows the derivation . The Norse had a very early source of improved iron that has never been traced, and they may have been capable of sailing to western Africa. (No I don't believe their legend that it came from trolls!) Being an elderly woman isolated in the Pacific Northwest of America, I have few resources, but you may know someone who would be able to follow this up.
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( males that 'rotund' have breasts, too )
Interesting content. Annoying presentersâŠ
Tell you what, unless you can tell us how,, when, & why you crafted Megablocks. Then any date over 14,000 years ago is logical; as no Civilization till today can duplicate this lost high tech. Wear, & tear of Granite, (simply by rain erosion); will pit heavily in proportion with age. Pre-Megadisaster-Worldwide- Megatropolis's!
"as no Civilization till today can duplicate this lost high tech." - um, no.
Tell you what, youâre just parroting the same old pseudo archaeology bull. Ever had an original thought in your head?
Hancock is full of it. Go watch some conspiracy videos.