LoreAdam's Calendar
No published date range
Masonry and towers
Monumental monolith (other)
A single exceptionally large worked stone (block, slab, gateway, obelisk), including unfinished quarry monoliths, not covered by other types.
The figures
Counted from the published site index- Catalogued
- 10
- Countries
- 10
- With a dated range
- 80%8 of 10 sites
- With a licensed photo
- 10
See every Monumental monolith (other) on the globeWhere they are
From the Atlas taxonomy, with its Wikidata and Getty AAT matches.
The sites of this type
Sites 1–10 of 10, by name- Lore
Beinan Cultural Park (monolith)
3000–2000 BCE
LoreExternsteine
10700–9600 BCE
UNESCO World HeritageHajar al-Hibla (Stone of the Pregnant Woman, Baalbek quarry)
200–300 CE
Lat pillar
No published date range
LoreMarcahuasi
c. 1500 BCE–600 CE
Masuda-no-Iwafune
600–700 CE
Rai stones (Yap stone money)
c. 3500 BCE–1500 CE
UNESCO World HeritageStone spheres of the Diquis (Costa Rica)
600–1000 CE
UNESCO World HeritageUnfinished Obelisk (Aswan)
1508–1458 BCE
Where they are
One dot per site of this type, on a plain graticule. The map draws from the published site index.