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Similar to other sites? by glen on Sunday, 04 December 2011

It is often fatuous to draw similarities to distant sites. Gobekli temples are round and so have been compared to Stonehenge (even by Steven Fry on QI); the megaliths are carved in relief and so compared to Malta and Tiwanaku! They are a similar age to neighbouring Syria's Tel Aswad, but this obvious connection is hardly instructive.
Can anyone make anything of the many similarities to the Menorcan talayotic sites such as Torre d'en Gaumes? The T-shaped megaliths, propped with dry-stone walling, placed onto slotted plinths, and encircled. The controversy over their function as roof-pillars. Their multiplicity in close proximity. The likelihood of 'sky-burial' as prime ritual. The hill-top location in dry climate. So many shared factors are surely worth thinking about. How sure are we of the taula and talayots' age?

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