Anta of Paranhos
The little Anta of Paranhos (also called Anta do Carvalhal) is located under a power line near the national road N231 in the hamlet of Carvahal da Loica, in Paranhos in the Guarda district in Portugal . Anta is the Portuguese name for around 5000 megalithic structures or dolmens , which were built during the Neolithic in the west of the Iberian Peninsula by the successors of the cardial or imprint culture .
Like many Portuguese dolmens, it is made up of bearing stones covered with a single capstone. Traces of red ocher and a drawing of an animal became known in 1985. The fragile dolmen was supplemented with concrete parts and stabilized with steel bars.
Nearby is the Orca do Folhadal dolmen.
literature
- Philine Kalb: Megalithics on the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa. In: Karl W. Beinhauer et al. (Ed.): Studies on megalithics: state of research and ethnoarchaeological perspectives. Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe 21. 1999, 115–122. (Mannheim)
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Coordinates: 40 ° 29 ′ 26.2 " N , 7 ° 48 ′ 22" W.