Alberite dolmen
Discovered in 1993, the Alberite Dolmen is located in Necropolis I, in Villamartín in the province of Cádiz in Andalusia in Spain . The approximately 6000 year old dolmen is one of the oldest on the Iberian Peninsula .
The dolmen unearthed by Francisco Pacheco Giles and José Ramos Muñoz consists of an approximately 23.0 m long gallery of partially chipped bearing and completely missing capstones that were previously laid horizontally and a monumental entrance made of two free-standing orthostats . The chamber, which initially narrows towards the center of the gallery, then widens and then narrows again towards the end, is segmented on the left by two side stones. At the end there is a head niche divided by panels on the right.
On some stones, especially the dividing stones, there are schematic images in ocher and anthropomorphic engravings as well as those of moons , suns and weapons. The remains of two people whose bones were dusted with red ocher were found inside. The burial gifts consist of polished stone tools, necklaces made of amber and shells, an ocher palette and a quartz crystal about 20 cm long.
The facility, which was formerly located in a round hill, was provided with an outer wall and roofed over in a modern way.
literature
- José Ramos Muñoz, Francisco Giles Pacheco et al .: El Dolmen de Alberite (Villamartín). Aportaciones a las formas económicas y sociales de las comunidades neolíticas en el norte de Cádiz. Universidad de Cádiz, Cádiz 1996, ISBN 84-7786-318-0 .
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Coordinates: 36 ° 48 ′ 57.1 ″ N , 5 ° 38 ′ 12.1 ″ W.