ABSTRACT

The Megalithic culture is often claimed to be the most intriguing one by archaeologists. It is regarded by some scholars as a well defined stage of civilization, whereas its existence as an identifiable meaningful cultural entity is denied by another group. In archaeology, it is a tomb built with big stones in natural forms of roughly dressed or even grave marked with prodigious rude stone or pit dug in soft rocks containing human remains of the dead. The term megalithic is, conventionally applied to the culture of rude stone monuments. Thus it is applied primarily to the rudimentary structures built wholly or partially of large rough stones but include comparable structure of a more sophisticated kind in which the stone may be crudely or even elaborately dressed as at Stonehenge.