Early science and colossal stone engineering in Menga, a Neolithic dolmen (Antequera, Spain)

Abstract 

Megaliths represent the earliest form of monumental stone architecture. The earliest megalithic chambers in Europe appeared in France in the fifth millennium BCE. Menga is the oldest of the great dolmens in Iberia (approximately 3800 to 3600 BCE). Menga’s capstone #5 weighing 150 tons is the largest stone ever moved in Iberia as part of the megalithic phenomenon and one of the largest in Europe. The research presented here proposes a completely innovative interpretation of how this colossal monument was built.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp1295

José Antonio Lozano Rodríguez et al. ,Early science and colossal stone engineering in Menga, a Neolithic dolmen (Antequera, Spain).Sci. Adv.10,eadp1295(2024).DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adp1295