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Overview
The Casota do Páramo is a dolmen in the municipality of Boiro, in the province of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. The catalogue gives it a typological date estimate of 4000 to 3000 BCE.
It is one of the three largest dolmens of its region, together with the Arca do Barbanza and the Casarota do Fusiño. A petroglyph of an anthropomorphic figure is carved on one of the stones of its passage.
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Where it sits in time
The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.
The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
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Casota do Páramo
One of the stones of the passage bears a petroglyph representing an anthropomorphic figure.
DescriptionSources for this section
- Wikipedia (French): Casota do PáramoCC BY-SA 4.0
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The dolmen has seven orthostats and a capstone that lies in two pieces. The burial chamber is polygonal in plan. One of the stones of the passage bears a petroglyph representing an anthropomorphic figure.
ConservationSources for this section
- Wikipedia (French): Casota do PáramoCC BY-SA 4.0
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- Wikipedia (French): Casota do PáramoCC BY-SA 4.0
The dolmen was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Property of Cultural Interest) in 2011.
ContextSources for this section
- Wikipedia (French): Casota do PáramoCC BY-SA 4.0
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- Wikipedia (French): Casota do PáramoCC BY-SA 4.0
Spain has a great many megalithic tombs, and its dolmens range from Andalusia in the south to Galicia in the north-west.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Dolmens of Andalusia, Extremadura and Galicia
Spain has a great many megalithic tombs, and the Atlas's Spanish dolmens run from Andalusia in the south to Galicia in the north-west. The finest are at Antequera in Andalusia, where the Dolmen of Menga, dated to about 3750 to 3650 BCE, is among the largest ancient megalithic structures in Europe. It is 27.5 metres long, 6 metres wide and 3.5 metres high, built with thirty-two megaliths, the largest weighing about 180 tonnes. After the chamber was finished it was covered with soil and built up into the hill seen today; when it was opened in the nineteenth century archaeologists found the skeletons of several hundred people. The Dolmen of Viera stands 70 metres away, and the tholos of El Romeral lies about 4 kilometres off; the three were inscribed as the Antequera Dolmens Site, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in 2016.
In the south-west, the Dolmen de Soto at Trigueros in Huelva province is a Neolithic tomb estimated to date between 3000 and 2500 BCE, one of about 200 Neolithic burial sites in the province. It was found in 1922 when its owner, Armando de Soto Morillas, wanted to build a house; the German archaeologist Hugo Obermaier found eight bodies in a fetal position with artefacts, and its engraved and painted uprights have been studied more recently.
In Galicia and Portugal a dolmen is an anta, and in Catalan-speaking areas dolmens have folk names such as cova (cave), caixa (crate or coffin), taula (table) and arca (chest). These names are tradition: they record what people made of the monuments, not what they were built for.
When visiting Menga, look at the great capstones from inside the corridor, and at the way the mound was built up over the chamber.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Dolmen of Menga, Wikipedia: Dolmen of Viera, Wikipedia: Antequera Dolmens Site, Wikipedia: Dolmen de Soto, Wikipedia: Dolmen · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Dated moments in the story
- 2011
Le dolmen a été déclaré Bien d'intérêt culturel en 2011.
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See it in 3D
An interpretive reconstruction of the monument, standing on the real ground at its exact point, under the sun for that place and season. Drag to look around it.
The reconstruction is ours, not a survey: it shows what a monument of this type looks like, at the size the record gives for this one.
Photographs
6 photographs, each with its author and licence
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Lore
Evidence & Lore
What the sources actually support — and, kept apart, what has been claimed.
What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 4000–3000 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for dolmens in Spain; this site has not been dated itself. Most dolmens date from the Late Neolithic period (4000-3000 BCE); the Dolmen of Menga in Andalusia dates to about 3750-3650 BCE.Source for this date
Where it stands
Spain
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 42°42′17″ N, 8°55′50″ WFor a GPS or map app: 42.70472, -8.93056
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
Arca do Barbanza4000–3000 BCE
Casota do Fusiño4000–3000 BCE- DolmenMámoas de Raña4000–3000 BCE
Dolmen de Argalo4000–3000 BCE
Dolmen de Axeitos4000–3000 BCE
Mina da Parxubeira4000–3000 BCE- Dolmenmámoas do Chan da Cruz4000–3000 BCE
Lapa de Gargantáns3000–2000 BCEPhoto: Lameiro at Galician Wikipedia ( Original text: ) · Public domain
Sources
Every record behind this page, with the link it came from.
2 sources behind this page
- 01Wikidata Q50689427wikidata.org
- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
Image files
- Casota do Páramo sinais cantería.jpgDodroCC BY 4.0
- Dolmen Casota do Páramo (7577349066).jpgJosé Antonio Gil Martínez from Vigo, SpainCC BY 2.0
- Dolmen Casota do Páramo, Cures, Boiro.jpgCerto Xornal from Ribeira, Galicia, EspañaCC BY-SA 2.0
- Gravado casota do páramo, Boiro.jpgDodroCC BY 4.0
- Petroglifo mamoa Barbanza.JPGUser AlmaGzCC BY-SA 3.0
- Casota do Páramo, Cures, Boiro.jpgCerto Xornal from Ribeira, Galicia, EspañaCC BY-SA 2.0
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
Credit
Text, licence and sources
Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Casota do Páramo" (French), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; authors are listed in the page history. Reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read on Wikipedia · Edit history and authors
- Wikipedia (French): Casota do PáramoCC BY-SA 4.0
- Wikidata Q50689427CC0