![]() ![]() Honour the dead and probably even a means to signal status within a communityīased on varying degrees of access to the burial place. Probably lie in converging architectural ideas that grew up around concepts ofĪnnual celestial or life/death cycles. The Iberian Peninsula appears to emerge around the 4th millennium BC. The passage-grave tradition within this part of As part ofĪ Junta de Andalucía-funded project, a Portuguese-Spanish-British team wasĬommissioned to record this unique prehistoric artistry in 20. Of a reused menhir, but most examples seem to have been created either whileĬonstruction was under way, or more likely when the tomb was in use. Lining the passage and chamber were engraved with megalithic art, which wasĪccompanied by painted schematic images. Which constricts halfway along its course. The Dolmen de Soto, its passage and chamber appear to form a continuous gallery, This is the eponymous passage,Īnd it usually merges or connects with a defined burial chamber. ![]() Immediately obvious feature of a generic passage grave is a round mound,Ĭontaining an entrance leading into a subterranean corridor, which is typically ![]() When viewing these tombs from the outside, the most Here we see the tomb passage, as viewed from the chamber area. Recent survey of the rock art within this passage grave has revealed a previously unknown element, raising questions about just who could enter this remarkable structure. Southern Scandinavia, and, to a limited extent, north Wales, north-west England, Portugal, north-west Spain, Brittany, the Channel Islands, south-east Ireland, To most of the core areas of Atlantic Europe, which included portions of modern-day Neolithic package that moved northwards, transmitting the architectural style Tradition originally arose in the Iberian Peninsula, before becoming part of a The 5th and 4th millennium BC, passage graves became dominant, probably after emergingįrom a tomb style popular in eastern Europe. Spread of tomb architecture across Europe is less clear. ‘Fertile Crescent’ of the Middle East around 10,000 BC, but the development and We know that the Neolithic Revolution occurred in the The origins of Neolithic tomb building in Europe areĭifficult to pinpoint. What can this tell us about life as well as death in a remarkable megalithic monument? George Nash, Sara Garcês, José Julio García Arranz, and Hipólito Collado share the secrets of the Dolmen de Soto. Investigating an isolated Neolithic tomb in Andalucía has revealed a new dimension to its rock art. The Dolmen de Soto from above, showing both the low earth mound covering the megalithic corridor, and the reconstructed entrance way beside the portal, which provides access to the interior. ![]()
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