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Ganghwa Island Dolmen Site — Example of a southern-style dolmen at Ganghwa Island

Megalithic complex

Ganghwa Island Dolmen Site

South Korea

DatedEst. 5000 BCE–600 CE

Where it standsSources

Photo Taewangkorea · CC BY-SA 4.0Source file on Wikimedia Commons

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About this site

Overview

Ganghwa Island Dolmen Site is a megalithic complex in South Korea. It lies at 37.7731° N, 126.4369° E.

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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. 5000 BCE–600 CEHow 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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Ganghwa Island Dolmen Site

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Context

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A megalithic complex is a landscape in which several kinds of monument stand together, so that the whole is more than any one piece. Examples include the Carnac stones in Brittany, where alignments, dolmens, tumuli and menhirs lie together; Brú na Bóinne in Ireland, a ritual landscape of at least ninety monuments; the Antequera dolmens in Spain; the Heart of Neolithic Orkney; and the temples of Malta. The regional background, “Megalithic complexes”, is given below.

Dating

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No scientific date has been published for this site. Monuments of this type in South Korea are generally dated 5000 BCE to 600 CE; the site itself may fall inside or outside that range.

Typological estimate, not a date for this site: a megalithic complex in the Korean peninsula is normally dated between 5000 BCE and 600 CE (Atlas typological table).