Antas de Belas
 
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Location of the Antas da Belas in Portugal. |
Under the name Antas da Belas , three megalithic complexes are grouped together in central Portugal , northwest of Lisbon in the municipality ( Freguesia ) União das freguesias de Queluz e Belas in the district ( Concelho ) Sintra , District Lisbon .
Anta , Mámoa , Dolmen , Orca and Lapa are the common names in Portugal for the approximately 5000 megalithic structures that were built during the Neolithic in the west of the Iberian Peninsula by the successors of the Cardial or Imprint culture .
Monument preservation
In 1910 the three megalithic tombs were:
registered and protected together under the name Antas de Belas as Monumento Nacional .
The decisive factor for the joint protection was less the archaeological similarities of the three tombs than their spatial proximity to each other (the three megaliths are a maximum of 550 m apart) and the fact that all three sites were discovered in the second half of the 19th century by the Portuguese geologist Carlos Ribeiro were discovered and investigated.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b A. Martins: Antas de Belas . Direção-Geral do Património Cultural, accessed January 14, 2018 (Portuguese).
- ^ Paula Noé: Anta de Monte Abraão. SIPA, 1991, accessed January 14, 2018 (Portuguese).
literature
- A. Martins: Antas de Belas . Direção-Geral do Património Cultural, accessed on January 14, 2018 (Portuguese, with extensive literature sv Bibliografia).
- Thomas G. Schattner (Ed.): Archaeological guide through Portugal (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 74). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-8053-2313-1 , pp. 142f.
- João Luís Cardoso and Rui Boaventura: The megalithic tombs in the region of Belas (Sintra, Portugal) and their aesthetic manifestations . In: Trabajos de Prehistoria . tape 68 , no. 2 , 2011, p. 297-312 .
Coordinates: 38 ° 46 ′ 5.4 " N , 9 ° 15 ′ 53" W.