![]() ![]() Kibbutz Shamir – 400 dolmens, including a large one with a 50 ton covering rockįor a map of these sites – check the green markers on the Golan sites map.Maale Gamla – south side of Daliyoth valley – dolmens which are covered by stones (tumulus, or small mound plural is tumuli).Nahal Bathra /Daliyoth- special types of dolmens – look like small tanks.Yehudiye – tumuli north of the ancient village.Rujm el-Hiri – east to Gamla, this prehistoric site (the “Golan Stonehenge”) has about 100 dolmens and stone piles on the area around it.Givat Bazak – 1KM east of Gamla, on both sides of the road – 150-200 dolmens, most of them 3-tire types (two vertical stones and one horizontal stone on top).Each cluster has dozens or hundreds of Dolmens grouped in a small area. There are several clusters of dolmens in the Golan. Some of the dolmens were reused for secondary burials long after they have been erected. They were burial places for a single person or small family. ![]() The dolmens were constructed outside of the village area. Many of the dolmens are covered by a pile of stones (tumuli, or small mounds) and others are encircled by a number of stones. There are dolmens that are dug under the ground and create a covered burial chamber. There are several types of dolmens, and many of them are based on a 3-tire structure: two vertical stones – or megaliths – and one horizontal stone on top – the table. The dolmens are based on large basalt stones. The tombs may have been of nomad or semi-nomad tribes who buried their dead in central holy places. In the Golan heights area there are 6,000 (!) dolmens (prehistoric megalith tombs), which were erected at the Middle Bronze period (2400-2000 BC). In the Golan heights there are 6,000 prehistoric megalith tombs erected in the fields.
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