Mike Pearson

Dec 31, 2024 | journals.uclpress.co.uk | Mike Pearson |Richard Bevins |Richard Bradley |Rob Ixer

IntroductionThe megalithic monuments of Neolithic and Chalcolithic Europe required considerable collective effort not only for their erection but also for the movement of their stones from source to monument. In the vast majority of cases, these stones were moved only short distances of less than 10 km or so (Boaventura et al. 2020). Even so, the weights of some megalithic stones such as the almost 150-tonne capstone of the Menga tomb at Antequera in southern Spain (Rodríguez et al.