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Antiquity reports on a major new megalithic complex in Europe

Submitted by Andy_B on Saturday, 06 December 2003  Page Views: 3262

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A new megalithic complex has been discovered, second only to Carnac in size and importance in Europe. Set in the forested hill-country of the Istranca Mountains in Turkish Thrace, clustered around the sacred mountain of Muhittin Baba lies a group of standing stone complexes of comparable complexity and size, with the total number of individual stones reaching over 2,000 (compared to Carnac's 3,000).

The complexes were discovered so recently that there have been no excavations as yet; their date is tentatively set in the Iron Age (800 - 100 CAL BC) with continued use into the Ottoman and Recent periods.

The history of research into south-east European megaliths began at the end of the nineteenth century (Shkorpil 1890; Slaveikov 1891). However, the existence of standing stones was unclear until the 1960s. Standing stone complexes of Kirikköy, Hacilar and Eski Mezarlik were published by S. A. Kansu and he suggested that Turkish Thrace standing stone complexes were reminiscent of the cromlechs of Western Europe (Kansu 1969). During the survey of the Prehistory Department of Istanbul University in the 1980s, about 25 standing stone complexes were documented (Özdogan 1998). However, only one of them - Kirikköy - has been published in detail (Erdogu et. al. 2002).

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Re: Antiquity reports on a major new megalithic complex in Europe by Aluta on Saturday, 06 December 2003
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Photos?
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    Re: Antiquity reports on a major new megalithic complex in Europe by Andy B on Sunday, 07 December 2003
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    Follow the link for photos. We can't reproduce theirs without permission, indeed no need to when their site does the job for us.
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    Andy
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