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Dolmen von El Moreco — El túmulo de El Moreco, datado en el 3.200 a.C, es el más espectacular de todos los de La Lora. Se encuentra situado en las proximidades…

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Dolmen von El Moreco

Spain

DatedEst. 4000–3000 BCE

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About this site

Overview

The Dolmen of El Moreco, also called the Dolmen del Moreco or Huidobro, is a passage grave at Hoya de Huidobro in the Parque Natural de las Hoces del Alto Ebro y Rudrón, near Burgos in Castile and León, Spain. Radiocarbon analysis places it in the Final Neolithic.

Two of the chamber stones bear red paintings of human figures.

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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.

  1. Göbekli Tepe9600 BCE
  2. First farming9500 BCE
  3. Avebury2600 BCE
  4. Great Pyramid of Giza2560 BCE
  5. Stonehenge2500 BCE
  6. Bronze Age collapse1200 BCE
  7. Rome founded753 BCE
  8. Parthenon447 BCE
  9. Hadrian's Wall122 CE
  10. Machu Picchu built1450 CE
12,000 BCE8,000 BCE4,000 BCE1 CE1,500 CE
This site

Est. 4000–3000 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical for this type

The published range for this kind of monument in this region. It is not a date for this site.
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Dolmen von El Moreco

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Two cover slabs are preserved over the end of the passage, while those of the chamber are missing.

Dolmen von El Moreco

Description

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The monument lies within a mound of about 27.0 m in diameter and 2.0 m in height. It consists of a round chamber of 10 limestone slabs, up to 2.0 m high, and a long passage whose side stones have fallen into disorder. Two cover slabs are preserved over the end of the passage, while those of the chamber are missing. Two of the orthostats of the chamber carry red paintings representing human figures.

Dating

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A burnt oak found at the base of the monument made it possible to date the structure by carbon-14 analysis to the Final Neolithic. The catalogue gives a typological estimate of 4000 to 3000 BCE.