megalithic
IPA: mɛgʌɫˈɪθɪk
adjective
- Of or pertaining to megaliths, to the people who made them, or to the period when they were made.
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Examples of "megalithic" in Sentences
- Yet, Shang culture cannot well be called a "megalithic" culture.
- Like Stonehenge, megalithic tombs offer proof positive of human habitation dating back 6,000 years.
- These latter do not seem to have brought the idea of megalithic building with them, as their earlier tombs are simple mounds.
- Another kind of megalithic monument are the stone circles, only they are circles no longer, many stones having been carted away to mend walls.
- There is here nothing to suggest the Doric of Paestum and Selinus, much to recall the megalithic buildings of Syria, and the sculpture of the farther East.
- If, as seems probable, the idea of megalithic building was brought to Europe by the immigration of a new race it is possible that a branch of this race entered Sicily.
- Chinese Culture_, Baltimore 1937.p. 20: The possibility of a "megalithic" culture in the Far East has often been discussed, by O. Menghin, R. Heine-Geldern, Cheng Tê-k'un,
- When excavated, there was a possibility of recovering skeletal remains, black and red ware and iron implements typifying the Iron Age, also referred to as megalithic burials.
- We shall consider first the theory that the idea of megalithic building was evolved among several races independently, i.e. that it was a phase of culture through which they separately passed.
- (_senams_) with holes pierced in their uprights and 'altar tables' at their base, which Barth, followed by Cooper in his _Hill of the Graces_, described as megalithic monuments, have been shown to be nothing more than olive-presses, the 'altar tables' being the slabs over which the oil ran off as it descended.
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