Another, Rufino Guinea, said his sweet pepper crop had been ravaged.Ĭlimate change has left the Iberian peninsula at its driest in 1,200 years, and winter rains are expected to diminish further, a study published by the Nature Geoscience journal showed. There is no water for the livestock and we have to transport it in," said Jose Manuel Comendador. "There hasn't been enough rain since the spring. Most date from the early Neolithic period (40003000 BCE) and were sometimes covered with earth or smaller stones to form a tumulus (burial mound). The stones were, for example, shaped into 90. The Caucasian dolmens represent a unique type of prehistoric architecture, built with precisely dressed large stone blocks. "The dolmen emerges and the dolmen tourism begins," he told Reuters after a busy day spent shuttling tourists to the site and back.īut there is no silver lining for local farmers. A dolmen (/ d l m n /) or portal tomb is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or 'table'. These dolmens cover the Western Caucasus on both sides of the mountain ridge, in an area of approximately 12,000 square kilometres of Russia and Abkhazian region of Georgia. Their presence is also good news for Ruben Argentas, who owns a small boat tours business. Now, following devastating droughts, the monument is on view for the first time. Local historical and tourism associations have advocated moving the Guadalperal stones to a museum or elsewhere on dry land. The Dolmen of Guadalperal is considered the 'Spanish Stonehenge,' and usually sits at the bottom of a manmade lake. Human remains found in or near many have led to an often-cited theory that they are tombs. Although there are many scattered across Western Europe, little is known about who erected them.
It was discovered by German archaeologist Hugo Obermaier in 1926, but the area was flooded in 1963 in a rural development project under Francisco Franco's dictatorship.ĭolmens are vertically arranged stones usually supporting a flat boulder. Pentre Ifan is probably the most well known and most easily recognisable prehistoric. "It's a surprise, it's a rare opportunity to be able to access it," said archaeologist Enrique Cedillo from Madrid's Complutense University, one of the experts racing to study the circle before it gets submerged again. The fallen stones to the right may be part of the western forecourt. It currently sits fully exposed in one corner of the Valdecanas reservoir, in the central province of Caceres, where authorities say the water level has dropped to 28% of capacity. Officially known as the Dolmen of Guadalperal but dubbed the Spanish Stonehenge, the circle of dozens of megalithic stones is believed to date back to 5000 BC. CACERES, Spain, Aug 18 (Reuters) - A brutal summer has caused havoc for many in rural Spain, but one unexpected side-effect of the country's worst drought in decades has delighted archaeologists - the emergence of a prehistoric stone circle in a dam whose waterline has receded.
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