Chã da Parada
Chã da Parada (also called Anta da Aboboreira) is the only gallery-type megalithic complex north of the Duero in Portugal . The high plateau (Chã) was searched between 1978 and 1988 and is considered the only systematically explored area in Portugal, as almost all of the 50 megalithic structures in this region have been recorded.
Apart from Chã da Parada, three other types of systems were found. The characteristic polygonal antas, some of them in mounds of earth with a diameter of up to 15 m, but also cairns with a chamber and without a detectable, probably overturned chamber. The stone boxes that form the third group belong to the youngest type of system . Chã da Parada characterizes the optimum of the architecture in the Serra de Aboboreira and was dated to the middle of the 3rd millennium BC based on the C-14 determination. The robbed complex still produced cuts , hand mills , blades, microliths, arrowheads , slate beads , the fragment of a disc ax and various types of ceramics , including bell beakers . Most of the systems here are older and, according to the current state of research, were built at the transition from the 5th to the 4th millennium. This means that the wide-chamber systems are among the oldest on the Iberian Peninsula .
literature
- 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 , p. 85 No. 59
Coordinates: 41 ° 12 ′ 13 ″ N , 8 ° 0 ′ 24 ″ W.