A huge complex of 500 stones was found in Spain: this is a record-breaking large structure

The stones were discovered on a plot of land in Huelva. This province is adjacent to the southernmost part of Spain's border with

Portugal, near the Guadiana River.They wanted to use the land of about 600 hectares for an avocado plantation. But before issuing permission, regional authorities requested a study of the territory. The goal is to check whether there are archaeological sites of cultural significance on its territory. As a result, scientists found a megalith - a structure made of huge stone blocks. Similar buildings are characteristic of the final Neolithic and Chalcolithic.

"It is the largest and most diversea collection of standing stones clustered together in the Iberian Peninsula,” José Antonio Linares, a researcher at the University of Huelva and one of the three project leaders, told Agence France-Presse. According to him, the oldest standing stones at the site of La Torre La Janera were erected by ancient people in the second half of the sixth or fifth millennium BC. “This is a major megalithic monument in Europe,” he said.

At this site, they found a large number of different types of megaliths, including standing stones, dolmens, burial mounds, coffin stone boxes and various enclosures.

“The most common find was standingstones: 526 of them are still standing or lying on the ground,” the researchers said in an article published in Trabajos de Prehistoria, a journal of prehistoric archeology in the Iberian Peninsula. The height of the stones ranged from 1 to 3 meters.

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