Saro — Saro megalith, Georgia .
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Saro is a megalith in Saro, Georgia. In open records it appears as Wikidata item Q21160607, mapped at 41.5056° N, 43.2794° E.

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A megalith is a large stone used to build a prehistoric structure or monument, either alone or with other stones. More than 35,000 megalithic structures have been identified in Europe, from Sweden in the north to the Mediterranean in the south, and megaliths are found worldwide. The word was first used in 1849 by the British antiquarian Algernon Herbert for Stonehenge, and comes from the Greek for "great stone". Most extant megaliths were erected between the Neolithic, with some earlier Mesolithic examples, and the Bronze Age. The oldest known ceremonial structures in the world, Göbekli Tepe and Nevalı Çori in Turkey, are dated to about 9000 BCE. The full article, “Megalith (type not specified)”, follows below under About this kind of monument.

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This site is undated in the open records the Atlas draws on, and the Atlas does not guess a date for it. Where a regional range exists for this kind of monument it is given in the notes on this page, as background and not as a date for this site.