“Spanish Stonehenge” emerges from watery grave for second time in final three years

The Dolmen of Guadalperal completely visible in July 2019 due to a low water level in the Valdecañas reservoir.

Enlarge / The Dolmen of Guadalperal fully seen in July 2019 as a result of a low water stage within the Valdecañas reservoir. (credit score: Pleonr /CC BY-SA 4.0)

Final week we instructed you concerning the flurry of latest protection resurfacing 2018 information tales concerning the re-emergence of so-called “starvation stones” as a result of excessive drought situations in Europe. We additionally famous that Europe is as soon as once more within the midst of a traditionally extreme drought. Now an historical website generally known as the “Spanish Stonehenge”—submerged underwater by a reservoir for many years—has been absolutely uncovered for the second time since 2019 as a result of low water ranges within the reservoir.

The positioning is also called the Dolmen of Guadalperal, a round grouping of 150 giant vertical granite stones (known as orthostats) relationship again to between 2000 and 3000 BCE. Nonetheless, Roman artifacts recovered on the website—a coin, ceramic fragments, and a grinding stone—recommend it might need been used even earlier. A staff led by German archaeologist Hugo Obermaier found the monument in 1926 close to a city known as Peraleda de la Mata.

Among the many recovered artifacts had been 11 axes, flint knives, ceramics, and a copper punch. A close-by settlement possible housed the individuals who constructed the monument, given the presence of homes, charcoal and ash stains, pottery, and stones to hone axes. Obermaier restored a number of the granite stones to their rightful locations and made reproductions of the engravings, which had been revealed in 1960.  

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