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stones, carved before they were built into the structures. The kerb stones are graded in size and selected for colour, so that the stones are larger and redder to the south west, and smaller and whiter to the north east. All these elements seem to have been constructed as one operation and indicate a
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When Clava-type tombs still contained burial remains, only one or two bodies appear to have been buried in each, and the lack of access to the second sub-type suggests that there was no intention of re-visiting the dead or communally adding future burials as had been the case with
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often runs around the cairn. The heights of the standing stones vary in height so that the tallest fringe the entrance (oriented south west) and the shortest are directly opposite it.
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Scotland's Hidden
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Sun, Moon and
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Scotland Before
History – Stuart Piggott, Birlinn Limited (1995),
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Cup marks on the northern cairn at
Balnuaran of Clava
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44:, named after the group of three cairns at
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1950:Evolutionary origin of religion
72:surrounds the whole tomb and a
16:Type of Bronze Age chamber tomb
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1563:Art of the Middle Paleolithic
1093:British megalith architecture
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1558:Art of the Upper Paleolithic
1098:Nordic megalith architecture
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121:complex design rather than
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216:Prehistoric technology
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323:Ard / plough
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1982:Prehistoric medicine
1977:Prehistoric counting
1960:Prehistoric religion
1955:Paleolithic religion
1933:Behavioral modernity
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1182:Abri de la Madeleine
306:Neolithic Revolution
2114:Bronze Age Scotland
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2021:Prehistoric warfare
767:Magdalenian culture
730:Levallois technique
661:Earliest toolmaking
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1972:Origin of language
1965:Spiritual drug use
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1777:Dartmoor kistvaens
1590:Carved stone balls
1302:Circular enclosure
1261:Other architecture
1204:Alp pile dwellings
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1811:Funeral pyre
1804:Great dolmen
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1741:Round barrow
1696:Stone circle
1568:Blombos Cave
1496:Grooved ware
1420:Chalcolithic
1324:Thornborough
1242:Flush toilet
1177:Blombos Cave
1172:Rock shelter
1128:Quiggly hole
1020:Architecture
995:illustration
637:Buffalo jump
458:Storage pits
421:Aşıklı Höyük
411:Ground stone
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1843:Long barrow
1833:Grave goods
1789:Court cairn
1784:Clava cairn
1736:Bowl barrow
1674:Rock cupule
1617:Golden hats
1610:Hill figure
1511:Unstan ware
1491:Cord-marked
1356:Sweet Track
1278:Burnt mound
1199:Stilt house
1187:Sibudu Cave
980:Tally stick
948:Quern-stone
933:Hammerstone
923:Fire plough
894:Pesse canoe
852:Bannerstone
822:Other tools
735:Lithic core
683:Aurignacian
571:Bare Island
453:Quern-stone
125:additions.
31:Clava cairn
2088:Categories
2058:57°28′25″N
1987:trepanning
1880:Ring cairn
1838:Jar burial
1821:transepted
1753:U.S. sites
1654:Petroglyph
1580:Bird stone
1538:wine press
1211:Stone roof
1194:Roundhouse
1086:long house
1063:Stonehenge
1031:Ceremonial
975:Stone tool
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676:Mousterian
653:Toolmaking
591:Cumberland
564:Transverse
534:Schöningen
426:Qesem cave
394:Earth oven
348:Irrigation
259:Technology
227:Prehistory
149:References
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66:ring cairn
35:Bronze Age
2061:4°04′28″W
2031:symbolism
1895:Tor cairn
1853:Grønsalen
1794:Cremation
1686:Sculpture
1664:Pictogram
1649:Petroform
1469:amber use
1437:Cosmetics
1247:Reservoir
1232:Check dam
1162:Pueblitos
1157:Pit-house
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943:Microlith
874:Bow drill
869:Bone tool
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485:Boomerang
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363:Terracing
242:Stone Age
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1669:Rock art
1632:painting
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1410:Beadwork
1150:Mehrgarh
1145:Mudbrick
1053:megalith
928:Fire-saw
750:debitage
745:analysis
713:Hand axe
693:Cupstone
271:Glossary
232:Timeline
142:NH757445
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2026:Symbols
1637:pigment
1523:Weaving
1486:Cardium
1481:Pottery
1476:Mirrors
1464:Jewelry
1405:Baskets
1385:culture
1237:Cistern
1043:Pyramid
985:Weapons
963:Scraper
953:Racloir
913:Cleaver
901:Chopper
807:Uniface
718:Grooves
708:Hafting
666:Oldowan
625:Systems
576:Cascade
539:woomera
529:harpoon
502:history
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448:Pottery
389:Cooking
298:Farming
264:history
237:Outline
2004:flutes
1799:Dolmen
1723:Burial
1533:winery
1506:Linear
1336:Midden
1314:Cursus
1307:Goseck
1167:Pueblo
1118:Dugout
1103:Burdei
782:Mining
606:Lamoka
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581:Clovis
438:Metate
416:Hearth
384:Basket
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1585:Cairn
1501:JĹŤmon
1452:shoes
1447:Hides
1319:Henge
1273:Broch
1135:Jacal
990:Wheel
938:Knife
884:Canoe
879:Burin
857:Blade
755:flake
616:Plano
524:baton
514:Spear
480:Arrow
433:Manos
286:Tools
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2014:gudi
1772:Cist
1701:list
1528:Wine
1457:Ă–tzi
1442:Glue
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1252:Well
1108:Cave
1038:Kiva
968:side
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840:bone
830:Adze
596:Eden
509:Nets
379:Fire
343:Goad
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