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Official french name: sphères mégalithiques du Diquís
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"More than 2100 tubular-shaped megalithic stone jars used for funerary practices in the Iron Age"
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The Brú na Bóinne monuments represent the largest and most important expression of prehistoric megalithic plastic art in Europe. (OUV)
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"The nominated serial property consists of four component parts which encompass a high density of megalithic structures showcasing Neolithic monumental architecture (...)." (AB Ev)
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"They are highly representative of an expression of the Ethiopian megalithic period" criterion (iv) - Periodic Reporting
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"unique megalithic defensive structures" (OUV)
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The circles of stones proposed for inscription represent the totality of the megalithic area in which the presence of such a large number of circles is a unique manifestation of construction and funerary practices which persisted for over a millennium (OUV)
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The wealth and concentration of elaborate monumental burials and associated megalithic statuary .. (OUV)
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home to an extinct megalithic culture which is seen in the form of edifices of huge statues called "moai" made out of volcanic rocks
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megalithic rock shelters
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outstanding monumental megalithic architecture (OUV)
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The tradition of erecting generation marking stones called daga-hela, quarried, transported and erected through a ritual process, makes the Konso one of the last megalithic people. (Description)
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The global prehistoric technological and social phenomenon that resulted in the appearance in the 2nd and 3rd millennia BCE of funerary and ritual monuments constructed of large stones (the "Megalithic Culture") is nowhere more vividly illustrated than in the dolmen cemeteries of Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa. (OUV)
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an outstanding example of a monumental ensemble of monumental megalithic structures illustrating a significant period of human history (OUV)
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"Within the property are many clusters of megalithic steles mainly on high ridges, which, until the mid-1930s, were associated with rituals and annual sacrificial ceremonies." (AB ev)
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"Deer stones (also known as reindeer stones) are ancient megaliths carved with symbols found largely in Siberia and Mongolia." (wiki)
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one of the most important and best known examples of European Megalithism (OUV)
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"A talaiot is a Bronze Age megalith found on the islands of Menorca and Majorca" (wiki), the AB ev does not refer to them as megaliths but ". Also located in this component part (C5) is a well-preserved megalithic dolmen that predates the island’s cyclopean architecture"
