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Montelirio dolmen by Andy B on Wednesday, 18 January 2012

I need to find out some more information on the Montelirio dolmen that is mentioned, such as it's location to plot it on our maps. (does anyone know?) Here are some links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvMAk7g-hts

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.116699694194.97756.110901234194&type=1

http://www.aljarafe.com/turismo/aljarafe_en_la_prehistoria.php?ID=191&action=VIEW

The Dolmen de Montelirio (Castilleja de Guzmán, Sevilla), a large thblos type grave, is located within the site of Valencina.The corridor, discovered during huge mechanical survey works carried out in 1998, had extensive
use of red pigments on the slates forming its internal walls.

Later on, the grave was excavated, confirming the use of red pigments also in the funerary rituals associated with the human remains and grave goods, as well as in the internal walls of the chamber. The Montelirio dolmen has been dated in the early stages of the 3Id millennium BC (Vargas Jiménez, 20041.A sample from the dolmen, DJ07-32.C46, taken from one of the slates forming the chamber, obtained in the 2007 campaign. was given by its director, archaeologist Alvaro Fernández Flores.

http://csic.academia.edu/PEDROD%C3%8DAZDELR%C3%8DO/Papers/1048975/Neolithic_and_Chalcolithic_VI_to_III_millennia_BC_use_of_cinnabar_HgS_in_the_Iberian_Peninsula_analytical_identification_and_lead_isotope_data_for_an_early_mineral_

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