Question

Name the two archaeological tools used by the megalithic people

Answer 1

A megalith is a large pre-historic stone that has been used to construct a structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones. There are over 35,000 in Europe alone, located widely from Sweden to the Mediterranean sea.[1]



Dolmen at Ganghwa Island, South Korea (c. 300 BC).



Megalithic grave Harhoog in Keitum, Sylt, Germany (c. 3000 BC)

The word was first used in 1849 by the British antiquarian Algernon Herbert in reference to Stonehenge[2][3] and derives from the Ancient Greek. Most extant megaliths were erected between the Neolithic period (although earlier Mesolithic examples are known) through the Chalcolithic period and into the Bronze Age