Megalith | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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Megalith


00:01:02 1 Early stone complexes in eastern Turkey
00:02:00 2 Middle Eastern megaliths
00:04:19 3 European megaliths
00:06:56 3.1 Tombs
00:10:46 3.2 Other structures
00:11:46 3.3 Spread of megalithic architecture in Europe
00:13:49 3.4 Timeline of megalithic construction
00:13:59 3.4.1 Mesolithic
00:14:57 3.4.2 Neolithic
00:17:42 3.4.3 Chalcolithic
00:18:23 3.4.4 Bronze Age
00:19:23 4 African megaliths
00:20:34 5 Asian megaliths
00:21:26 5.1 East Asia
00:21:34 5.1.1 Northern style
00:22:48 5.1.2 Southern style
00:24:16 5.1.3 Capstone style
00:25:16 5.2 Southeast Asia
00:25:25 5.2.1 Living megalith culture of Indonesia
00:26:58 5.3 South Asia
00:28:51 6 Melanesian megaliths
00:29:44 7 Micronesian megaliths
00:32:04 8 Modern theories
00:33:22 8.1 Types of megalithic structure
00:33:41 9 Gallery
00:33:50 10 See also



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A megalith is a large stone that has been used to construct a structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones. The word megalithic describes structures made of such large stones without the use of mortar or concrete, representing periods of prehistory characterised by such constructions. For later periods, the word monolith, with an overlapping meaning, is more likely to be used.
The word megalith comes from the Ancient Greek μέγας (transliteration mégas, meaning "great") and λίθος (transliteration líthos meaning "stone"). Megalith also denotes one or more rocks hewn in definite shapes for special purposes. It has been used to describe buildings built by people from many parts of the world living in many different periods. A variety of large stones are seen as megaliths, with the most widely known megaliths not being tombs. The construction of these structures took place mainly in the Neolithic period (though earlier Mesolithic examples are known) and continued into the Chalcolithic period and the Bronze Age.