Discovering the secrets of Portugal's 7,000-year-old cromlech - BBC REEL

The Cromlech of the Almendres is a megalithic complex in Evora, Portugal, dating back 7,000 years ago. This makes the sacred stone sites 2,000 years older than the world’s most famous Neolithic monument, Stonehenge.
The Portuguese megalithic structure is believed to have been used for religious or ceremonial purposes as well as an astronomical observatory.
Video by Izabela Cardoso & Fernando Teixeira
Executive Producer: Camelia Sadeghzadeh
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[@ministryoftruth8499]

The names of the cities of Évora in Portugal (where this cromlech is located), Évreux in France, and York in England all share the same Celtic etymology, 'eburos' (yew tree). These names are linguistic fossils that remind us that once upon a time, long before most of Europe was unified under the Caesars, there was a Celtic Europe.

[@diogorodrigues747]

"Évora" comes from the Roman name of the city, "Ebora". The reality is that the "v" instead of "b" is a phonetic change that occured in Classical Portuguese, because in Galician-Portuguese both "v" and "b" represented the same sound - and that still happens in numerous Portuguese dialects.

[@ministryoftruth8499]

@@diogorodrigues747 Évora, Alentejo, Portugal From Celtic *ebora- 'plural genitive of the word eburos (trees)'. Proto-Celtic: eburos, noun (yew).

[@ralphyork4996]

At 5,000 bc this is pre-Celtic.

[@ministryoftruth8499]

@@ralphyork4996 Correct. My original comment is about the origin of the name currently in use for the place where this cromlech is located, not about the cromlech itself. The name is Celtic, the complex is Neolithic.

[@rogeriopenna9014]

Roman history can be clearly divided between before and after the sacking of Rome by the gauls under Brennus. It started its Italian expansion after the sacking, as if trying to build a buffer zone around the city. The Romans early expansion into celtiberia and Gaul is probably related to this scar in the Roman psyche

[@yarrowwitch]

Portugal's neolithic monuments - standing stones, circles, passage graves - are amazing, and so prolific! ❤

[@Hallands.]

I love that the Portuguese preserve this so well. We have the exact same burial chambers, grave mounts and boulders with little, round indentations in Denmark, but few of the standing stones are preserved and those only partially…

[@ruidadgmailcanada8508]

A dry climate and NOT having winters like Denmark helps preserve things. Much love to all, Canada

[@vascoapolonio2309]

To tell you the truth, my friend, I think that was pure luck... Or maybe a foreigner had noticed these rock formation... Couse I'm Portuguese and I know how we work now, and have worked in the 20 century... 😂😂😂

[@andrepereira744]

@@vascoapolonio2309 "To tell you the truth" em vez de falares merdas em inglês a rebaixares os Portugueses para te fazeres de engraçadinho para os "outros" lá fora, vai estudar um bocado. Pois o espaço está preservado desde a sua descoberta em 1964 e quem descobriu foi um Português.

[@bulletsfordinner8307]

@@vascoapolonio2309 It's a shame you didn't pay attention to the video. Vai rapar o taicho

[@joaosampaio4039]

É um povo que não se governa nem se deixa governar

[@johnedwardjones999]

Wow! Been to Stonehenge. Had no idea this place existed in Portugal. Thank you!

[@1715905950]

In 2014 we had a chance to visit this cromlech and they neolithic burial sites that surround Evora. It’s a great exploration and Evora is a wonderful town with a wonderful Parador and great food Going through the Cork forest was a great experience. I was so glad to find this video as it explains a lot about these sites. Thank you so much A fan of Portugal

[@BernasLL]

Dafuq is a Parador? xD

[@chuckspencer8540]

@@BernasLL ?

[@GregoryJByrne]

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[@mafaldavalentepinto]

@@BernasLL é uma pousada.

[@zipinha]

What an amazing communicator! Her English is perfect! Congratulations!

[@suginami123]

A complete revelation. Love this. Presenter is very clear and precise. Thank you.

[@luizenahte8181]

I went there yesterday with my family.The rocks, the land, the beautiful trees… magic. I made my prayers, touched them feeling grateful for their resilience and resistance thru time. I’ll never forget the experience.

[@proudhon100]

To whom did you pray?

[@skelleyd9097]

@@proudhon100to deez nuts

[@sacriptex5870]

in my grandfather little vilage (Near Bragança) theres a lot of Celtic Dolmens and old celtic stones... There´s a fresh beautiful feeling around that place... something like a old dorment pagan Europe

[@luisalmeida1391]

Thank you, BBC, for showing our treasures to the world.

[@alientejanopt9066]

PORTUGAL ROCKS 👍 In Portugal there are structures like these everywhere, from north to south, east to west , the oldest in the world, and that's AMAZING . I'm proud to be portuguese.

[@margarethinton3840]

So happy to see this video since at age 90 I won't be able to visit. I believe more like these stone circles will be 'discovered' since early peoples lived all over the globe. I would be delighted to hear of any new 'findings' in Portugal - there MUST be more.

[@sancho_panca]

There are more cromlechs in the area, much smaller, but just as beautiful as this one. I recomend you to search for the Cromelechs of Portela de Mogos, Vale Maria do Meio and Monte das Fontaínhas. They're all amazing!!!

[@bluebird3281]

They are using LIDAR technology and finding circles and squares of stone in the Amazon. If you don't know about them already you may like the documentaries on those.

[@wendylow5748]

90!!! What's your secret to a long healthy life?? Besides staying away from doctors? LOL

[@presbiteroo]

I visited this place with Ebora Megalíthica, the group that this woman is part of. It was extremely interesting. So nice to see them here!

[@vitorjpereira2547]

I Am So Proud Of My Ancestors From 7,000 Years Ago. 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹

[@MariaCardoso-fg2it]

Olá. Os meus tb. Sou desta região.

[@vitorjpereira2547]

@@MariaCardoso-fg2it Olá Maria. O Alentejo é Mesmo Maravilhoso. ;)

[@MariaCardoso-fg2it]

@@vitorjpereira2547 Ola'.Ta' bom? Eu adoro, sou de perto de Évora .A natureza ,pôr do sol ,visão privilegiada das estrelas, amplos horizontes ! Não esquecendo as comidinhas saborosas!

[@MariaCardoso-fg2it]

E as pessoas são simples,humildes ,amistosas genuínas e filósofas !

[@MariaCardoso-fg2it]

Nao estou la' mas tenho imensas saudades!

[@ilidioalves7]

the only thing bad about this site is the fact that it still technically sits in private property, in a huge ranch estate, typical of the South of Portugal, called 'herdade', and so only the site of the Cromlech, the menhir and a small dirt track that connects the two and the main road (with fences on both sides) is accessible, because you are in someone's farm. I pity the Portuguese state in all these years haven't realized the huge importance of this site - the oldest megalithic site in Europe, the blueprint to all the others you see in Western Europe - and hasn't put more of an effort to secure it, by buying out more of the surrounding area, building an interpretation center, in short making it more accessible and not making you feel like you're trespassing when you go there.

[@ChrisShortyAllen]

Zzzzzzzz

[@o.portista]

Somos Grandes 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹

[@HF06]

Just a correction. At 1:50 she says people associate the stones with Moors, that's false. It's a very common misconception, because the words are so similar, but people associate them with Mouras from the celtic "Marwa" (which means dead) and not Moors (or Mouros in Portuguese) from the latin "Mauri" (referring to North-West Africans). Moors were real people who inhabited the area from the 8th to the 12th century (and some even stayed longer up to the 16th century). Mouras are mystical beings of the Portuguese and Galician folklore with pre-roman celtic origin. If people thought they were giants, it's most certainly referring to the mystical Mouras and not the North African Moors. There's no way people thought North African Moors were giants since they lived with them, they knew they weren't stone-laying mystical beings.

[@bulletsfordinner8307]

Yup, subscrevo. Embora se ouça mais das lendas das Mouras/Moiras no norte de Portugal junto dos castros.

[@HF06]

@@bulletsfordinner8307 Sim são mais populares no Norte, é verdade (são de origem galaica se não me engano) e é no Norte que melhor sobreviveram, mas existem algumas no Sul também, provavelmente devido à presença Celtici no que é hoje o Alentejo. A confusão vem do facto da grafia ser a mesma e de existirem algumas lendas sobre Mouras, neste caso falando de muçulmanas/norte-africana, como a lenda da Moura de Faro ou da Moura Salúquia. Mas essas lendas ocorrem no Sul do país e estão diretamente ligadas a narrativas da Reconquista, e também têm uma componente mística muito reduzida (Moura de Faro) ou até inexistente (Moura Salúquia), ao contrário das Mouras/Moiras célticas que são seres puramente místicos e mágicos. Eu acho bastante fácil de diferenciar as duas mas ainda há pessoas que as confudem. Também parece haver muitos casos de reinterpretação a posteriori, isto é pessoas que criaram novas lendas a partir de Moiras célticas, pensando que se tratava de Mouras Norte-Africana (como a mulher está a fazer no vídeo). Conheço um caso assim aqui em Monção, com povoações ligadas ao Rio Mouro.

[@MariaCardoso-fg2it]

@@HF06 Mouras mágicas encantadas que se transformavam em animais ?Conheço lendas dessas, contadas no Alentejo .

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

Thank you for that. I lived in this area for 13 years and I had Never heard anyone attribute any of these sites (there are Hundreds) to Moors! But I had never heard the word Moura, so now it all fits, I did know about the giants ,so it all makes sense for me now.

[@DavidPereira-ot2xi]

@@MariaCardoso-fg2it De Mouras só conheço uma (Moura encantada) agora de bruxas e bruxos feiticeiros e feiticeiras é o forte (corredor, sarrom, a deusa dos animais, a caminheira, etc.) aqui ainda existe alguns rituais, vais fazer uma caminhada por locais pouco frequentados e afastado das localidade e em cruzamentos encontrares, cabelos sangue, cabeças de animais, fruta da época, espelhos, vestuário, calçado, velas de cera, e tc. e depois a tradição no dia das bruxas (à noite) uma cabaça com o interior limpo para colocar uma vela arder, para ficar com aspecto fantasmagórico

[@whosewineisitanyway3184]

Really cool to come across this video. This couple from Puerto Rico and I took a tour to Evora from Lisbon and it was amazing! We went to the temple of bones and the sites shown in the video here. Very interesting stuff.

[@stephanieyee9784]

I love this video, it I'd so interesting and the information given is good. I would love to visit this site, I think it would feel magical. I visited Portugal way back in about 1984 and I loved it.

[@andrepereira744]

And Portugal loves you!! Come back some day!

[@jjohnson5014]

Well done presentation!

[@mariadaluzmoutinho5701]

Este local é fascinante e o torna especial porque é a etapa mais antiga do desenvolvimento cultural humano...Que histórias poderiam revelar se estas pedras pudessem "falar"?! Que interessante explanação e conhecimento...mas os mistérios continuam!!

[@emilymcfadden4360]

Genetic haplogroups from peoples still living in the area and northwest Spain are also found in the western isles of Scotland, Wales, the West and Northwest of Ireland. There also you find similar structures pre dating the obvious similarity to England's Stonehenge.

[@andalacomessenome]

People from this area went to those places after the ice age so they are Iberian too :)

[@viveanaalmeida7854]

Portuguese people have nothing to do with brits Irish anything if u look at our haplogrouo it's still different to british Isles also Portuguese people just don't look like any Irish or English person I've seen just cause we are European doesn't mean we are all the same let us have our own history

[@robertolang9684]

@@viveanaalmeida7854 ha ha ha , ya sister ya , i got my DNA all done , i'm a kallaiko from the trebaruna sanfins de ferreira , there is some Irish and Scottish that belong to our alpine and Balkan tribes the majority of that people of England today are Nordic Danes vikings Norwegian , Sweden even fins , they don't belong to our tribes they arrived later with other mixes

[@MotoTvWoodsFarm]

Thank you for making this movie available. i enjoyed watching it and it brought back many memories of visiting the area, we weren't able to understand fully at the time what we were looking at when we were there. i am looking forward to returning there again later this year

[@picksalot1]

Cool. Never heard of this place before. What condition was it in when found? It looks well-preserved. The "smile" reminds me of the crescent moon. Perhaps the depressions in the Cromlech are for placing offerings on the rounded stones or are some sort of calendar. Very interesting. I hope to hear more about this. Thanks 👍

[@brixcosmo6849]

Thanks! Best Regards from Portugal!

[@prof.cecilycogsworth3204]

That was a lovely start to my day. Thank you very much.

[@manic2360]

The same style cup marks at the top of the stone, are found on top of the T-stones at Gobekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe.

[@thevisit630]

Great knowledge Thanks BBC Real❤️👍

[@paulskillman7595]

Today I think it is difficult to realize how important it is to tell what season it is. Very long ago people needed to know when to plant their crops. Stone Henge allowed them to look at the stars to see when to plant their crops by the position of the stars.

[@STICKlaPISSSE]

I am so sory but your logic is a total crap! What are you trying to say? That farmers didnt know the diference between spring and winter? That they need to build cromeleques in order to look at the stars and then plant crops? The moon and the sun are the true engines of agriculture. If you were a farmer you would know this! This were monuments for rituals! Those rituals served to agregate the neolithic people into some kind of unity, passing the clans and family levels.

[@algueiraovelho]

Thank you for this awesome video.

[@olgierdogden4742]

Loved the slight uncertainty from our narrator who keeps a valued interest in the myth’s come history which is tantalisingly just out of reach, and as it should be.. drawing more intrigue and shaping the ghosts of the past..

[@TheZombieGAGA]

beautiful places in Alentejo

[@etraudnoslen]

amazing video. BBC could do a proper documentary on this. Extremely interesting subject, particularly because of its age and size.

[@PanglossDr]

They never will because of the myth that Stonehenge is the oldest and most important pre-historic monument in the world. I took my Father to see Stonehenge. Our guide made the statement above. When I challenged him saying the Pyramids were older he got furious and insisted 'No, Stonehenge is far older. To put the BBC in perspective, when they did a series years ago on the Celts, who arrived in Britain about 1500 years after Stonehenge was built, what picture did they use at the beginning of every episode? You guessed it.

[@queroemigrar4154]

This is not 7000 years old

[@PanglossDr]

@@queroemigrar4154 Quote your source please.

[@queroemigrar4154]

@@PanglossDr Quote your fake source.

[@PanglossDr]

@@queroemigrar4154 It is readily available on the internet. Ever heard of using research rather than ignorant opinion?

[@Alfablue227]

Fascinating stuff...

[@debbiehenri345]

I'd heard there were other stone circles in Europe besides the numerous, much-publicized British ones. Interesting to see there is one in Portugal, and remaining in such good condition. I wonder if those cup-shaped markings identify with certain Neolithic settlements, clans, or families instead of constellations (because I'd have thought that it would have been quite easy to relate the marks to groups of stars). Perhaps it's where the clan can make personalised offerings or it marks out where each settlement/family gathers during important events like a solstice.

[@Predatorkick]

There is much more than jus one of those in Portugal. In fact there’s more like this in Portugal than in England

[@josecarlosfernandez3619]

Excelente sitio!

[@tacodias]

Time to visit Évora!

[@namibianodetombua]

In the Évora region there are, as far as I know, 2 more megalithic structures like this one. The Cromlech of Xerez, near Monsaraz and another one, which do not know the name, not far from Évora though.

[@tlacahetl]

Why is this not common knowledge!! Its amazing what the ancestors built.

[@evangelinegilbero8211]

They were so industrious than people of today.

[@paulosergio-yi9jr]

Because its in Portugal! It seems the world "discovered" this country after Ryanair... 😂

[@truthismycause2800]

@@paulosergio-yi9jr Ahahah brilliant joke.

[@robertolang9684]

the amurikons the ones that make all historic books so they write what suits them

[@robertolang9684]

history anglo saxon never talk about viriato o terror of Rome but talk about the french and English leaders that been defeated in a few battles

[@pbohearn]

I just saw the Dolmens in Andalusia, Spain today. 2 mounds with a hallway into a room built of huge rocks. So cool! 5k years old!

[@bulletsfordinner8307]

Yes the people spread out in large groups all through the peninsula! Check out the castros and the legends associated with them. Those are more to the northern parts, Atlantic but also interior. It's magical

[@bulletsfordinner8307]

*When I mention Castros, from Castreja Culture I mean Hill forts but here usually built in very mistical spots

[@akashsolenkar7545]

Those stone called shiva linga's humans developed energy points they also in India. Specifically energy points made by black stone in also India

[@user-tk1ti1wx8e]

I salute u from Northern Portugal ,Tras-os-montes Pagan still

[@marcelobarefoot3549]

I wish you could present legends in portuguese...thank you!

[@jpmtlhead39]

7.000 years old... Uauu.👍👍

[@JTCGiantz56]

It's crazy this was only discovered in 1964 for a relatively small country such as Portugal.

[@diogorodrigues747]

They actually knew about this before, however this was a very remote site until some decades ago and the owners of these lands didn't care that much about history. Even nowadays they close down megalithic monuments to every people (even historians) because "those are their lands and no strange should enter on them"! This happens when 95% of the country is private land, and in the case of Alentejo they are very rich and influent people - no politician wants to say no to them, and they have lots of support from most locals!

[@cmarq817]

“Discovered” means only studied by academia.

[@brunoamaral4759]

@@diogorodrigues747 maravilhoso ver que nós no Brasil herdamos os problemas portugueses também 😂

[@diogorodrigues747]

@@brunoamaral4759 Normal quando a própria família real era portuguesa e os terrenos privados do Brasil ainda hoje são geridos por pessoas descendentes das famílias dos jesuítas colonos, maioritariamente portugueses!

[@SpectrumX9]

There are several of these stone circles around Portugal territory although not so big. There is also Perdigões, still being digged and may be the cherry in the cake.

[@ivanbarbosa81]

adoro.

[@chiarapennacchio385]

Very interesting! I live in Portugal but didn't know about this site. It's on my agenda now!

[@chipwalter4490]

How were these "discovered" in the 1970's?... Were they unearthed due to being buried? Or maybe were they so remote in the vast Portuguese landscape that no modern person had yet stumbled upon them? Please do another video where this is explained.

[@devojah9512]

They won’t

[@mariorosario4428]

In the 60’s, the Portuguese government carried out a nationwide survey regarding geological charts and many prehistoric sites were discovered in the process, including the Almendres Cromlech.

[@rogeriopenna9014]

@@mariorosario4428 that would not result in such sure being discovered, rather, in it being officially cataloged. Consider Stonehenge for example "Roman coins and medieval artefacts have all been found in or around the monument but it is unknown if the monument was in continuous use throughout British prehistory and beyond, or exactly how it would have been used. Notable is the massive Iron Age hillfort known as Vespasian's Camp (despite its name, not a Roman site) built alongside the Avenue near the Avon. A decapitated seventh-century Saxon man was excavated from Stonehenge in 1923.[41] The site was known to scholars during the Middle Ages and since then it has been studied and adopted by numerous groups." It never was "lost" to be rediscovered

[@eduardoserrao7372]

They were known by local people but not by scientists. The same is true for the Foz Coa engravings.

[@bulletsfordinner8307]

@@rogeriopenna9014 muito interessante. Adoro a cultura castreja e todas as lendas que a rodeiam.

[@bulletsfordinner8307]

Adorei visitar à uns anos! 😍😍😍 Foi especial porque apanhamos um belíssimo pôr-do-sol e ficamos para a Lua e as estrelas! Muito lindo e misterioso! Há muitas "gravuras" nos cromeleques, não sei se existe um registo de todas as gravuras, se não existe devia! ❤️

[@silveriorebelo2920]

há uns anos...

[@alexgabriel5423]

Quite amazing, but under-reported. Portuguese archeologists or reporters should write a book> Neolithic Portugal. You ll get tourists for these sites.

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

There are Hundreds of Neolithic sites in that area and across the border in Spain. Valencia de Alcantara has 147 identified dolmens. You can't get to most of them! Lost opportunities. Yet they keep saying they want Eco tourism! Makes no sense to me. By their nature, these places are not going to attract the guiris. They will attract people who respect the land. They have rare, endangered species, historic towns and cities, with everything from the Neolithic through to the Conquistadores (Merida has more Roman sites than anywhere but Rome) yet you can drive past bits of Roman column lying in fields! A Camino de Santiago cuts straight through it. Not the one that has become the Holy Benidorm, one most people have never heard of. The Ruta de Plata. Used by the Romans to get all their purloined silver to Seville and back to Rome. Later used by pilgrims coming from the other way and from North Africa. The landscape is amazing. In a way I am glad it is 'Lost' but in another it needs visitors, if only to preserve it.

[@STICKlaPISSSE]

So now that 8 months have passed, I hope you have google it and bought the most recente book about the portuguese Neolithic! Btw go look and study about Bell Beackers from Portugal, I garanty that you will get one of the biggest treats in archeology, since the british think bell beakers came from North and Eastern Europe... Dumb things!

[@robertolang9684]

there is plenty books about historic Portugal but are censured and removed from the market , look at the alvao writing the oldest flutarc writing in Europe , nobody knows about just a few

[@ourlovehowerica]

7.000 years ago top 🔝

[@lydiawaterreus]

From the south of Europe.. along the coasts…Portugal, Spain, France, Britain, Ireland, Denmark and the south of Sweden (Ales Stenar) they stand there. Our history of the Celts

[@truthismycause2800]

These monolithic structures pre-date the celtic diaspora. They were built during neolithic age, not Bronze or Iron age when protocelts and Celts spread throughout Europe. Their connection with the Celts is merely because the celtic tribes acknowledged them as holy or mystical sites from ancestral cultures.

[@bulletsfordinner8307]

@@truthismycause2800 they are proto-keltic that is correct. We even have found writings that haven't yet been decoded, or so called "rosetta stones". There were also humanlike sculptures found that suggest some kind of different cult where people painted themselves all around the face some even tattooing

[@giuseppersa2391]

Happily not caged in as is Stonehenge 🧙‍♂️

[@AntonioCalado75]

they want to

[@AhJodie]

Cool looking.

[@ellejane6667]

do you know what is also bananas shaped, the coast line, and the pitting is fishing holes

[@legitbeans9078]

Shes great! Give her a show 😁

[@fernandoveiga0738]

Another point. When She says that is a face, a mouth and the nose, its note. Its a observatory, if you see with open eyes that is one representation of one face of the Moon.

[@crookedpaths6612]

Couldn’t nomadic persons also observe the rising on the moon or sun too? Nomadic tribes usually settle for the summer and migrate for the winter. It doesn’t mean they can’t return to same places again and again. A lot of assumptions being made.

[@anthonygustafson4713]

I understand what you're saying. But think you missed the point they're making on this. One would have to be in the exact same spot consistently to make precise astronomical alignments. One couldn't do that just eyeballing it and hoping for the best.

[@malavoy1]

@@anthonygustafson4713 True, but then there's Gobekli Tepe 5000 years earlier than this and a good 2000 years before farming which itself was 1000-2000 years before nomadism. This is another wonderful puzzle piece in the mystery that is prehistory.

[@free22]

@@DianaAtena It’s incredible the variety of monoliths that have been built across the world. Europe, Middle East, the Americas, Africa, Asia. It heralds back to our similar origins as humans.

[@free22]

@Pertinax You don’t have to dream. Monoliths are made out of stone. See for yourself. Get out of your house and travel sometime. It’ll be good for you.

[@bulletsfordinner8307]

@@malavoy1 observe Gobekli Teppe, it has all animals and adoration and first humanlike figure representation. But of all the sculptures are of the wildlife before farming and shepparding. There's another site north to Gobekli that I believe has more evidence of this new places of cult. Cromeleques de Almendre was to record data regarding other things, and of course to gather too. I love Gobekli Teppe and everything they are discovering finally

[@lf1496]

The Stone Megaliths in Sudan at Napta Playa are 11-13,000 years old. They chart the Orion Star Constellation

[@ricardo82carvalho]

Napta playa circles were built around 7000 bc that's 9000 years!

[@Amitdas-gk2it]

Nice

[@Chompchompyerded]

Were the stones sourced locally, or did they bring them from a distance away?

[@XofHope]

They're local, you can still see where some were cut from the larger rock formation.

[@jaridkeen123]

I dont think ancient humans were thinking "lets make a Dirt Uterus to burry our friend" Its probably more of a Shrine

[@selfiekroos1777]

Italy, Coliseum Pantheon and temples Egypt, Pyramids Sphinx and temples Greece, Parthenon Temples Spain, Homos and Chile con Carne Portugal wine and giant stones

[@wadeparker8695]

What I like is that main stream archaeology is so often wrong, narrow sided and it’s a lot of guesswork. In the end we do not know how old these things are and that is the fact of it.

[@michaelshaw5019]

Are the indentations on the stones not remains from hitting the stone to make different tones? This has been established with other similar stone pieces elsewhere in the world from a time before.

[@sophiasummers1637]

The pock marks might be small grinding areas for different herbs used in worship or healing ceremonies.

[@mariorosario4428]

I’ve been to the Cromlechs and the first time i’ve seen the holes I thought exactly the same thing.

[@sophiasummers1637]

@@mariorosario4428 Interesting. I just thought of things that have been used in ceremonies before and if the preparation was done at the holy site, then it might become a holey site. 😂

[@MissRenee_X]

Portugal has exquisite untold history. We have some of the highest history of rh negatives

[@AugustinTomasOBrienCaceres]

Portugal and Ireland then have the oldest human constructions on earth

[@theaquariancontrarian3316]

You dont need logs to move stone. Just make the stones round and roll them.

[@alexgabriel5423]

Mrs Sira Camacho says that Neolithic people had logs...what did they cut the logs with?? They had no saws! How long does it take to find logs of the same size??

[@bulletsfordinner8307]

Did you not watch the tools they showed that were found on the sites? Come to Portugal those are preserved in the museums but you can see them, stone axes

[@thealexprime]

Legal

[@jpribeiro7694]

Did she really say the the banana shape was an ancient stone smiley face??? Ummmm... Coastal people, I`m going to go with it`s a boat hull and the corresponding shape above is not a nose but is instead the mast and sail. I love this part of the country, also around Sintra.

[@Sirikazy]

Porque a guia fala em inglês? Não existem subtítulos para os inglês o franceses? E já agora bom exemplo a guia da ao tocar a pedra. Que bom! já vou aí colocar "eu estive aqui ..."

[@999carlosjorge]

talvez porque a BBC é Inglesa,jà deve ter ouvido falar da BBC?? ....eu explico ......

[@nelsonsoares2975]

I believe who ever built these beauties in Portugal also built Stonehenge , it must be connected some how or its possible some other peoples came across these in Portugal 2000 years later & copied the idea & then built a bigger Stonehenge in England ... I read 4 years ago that investigations into Stonehenge showed a high probability that an Iberian culture built it (human bones & artifacts found under & around the complex).. whatever the case they are here to stay & we so called know it all's :)))) have lots to learn still not to mention giving more credit than we have to our ancestors ... One more point,, tests were done for 10 years to find the most unique blood & DNA , the Portuguese blood & DNA came up as the most unique , they even found Neanderthal DNA in the Portuguese blood , if that's not interesting I don't know what is.. Portugal not only is 1st or 2nd oldest country - culture in Europe but may also have the oldest blood line in Europe today or at least a higher percentage than any other blood line...,... this is very interesting stuff.

[@marielambert7441]

Could it .be à game those holes?

[@JPVillalobos27]

Those types of oval shaped stones were also sacred in ancient Ireland… In India they’re Shiv Lingams.

[@abrahamboniface6305]

I believe Early humans were more in touch with nature and their individuality creativity. And appreciated everyone's contributions to community.

[@FranciscoSmirsley]

Something we have lost, alas, looooong time ago.

[@jeanlundi2141]

History is circular. Yes, there were times when we lived very differently. For better and for worse as well.

[@diasgoncalvesportugal6533]

PORTUGAL the port of the GRAAL.

[@notme1777]

I was just going to say this. To my brother and everybody I'm trying hard to beat this thing I'm facing Giants right now.

[@DaisyMaeMoses]

I wish we could be in the minds of our ancient ancestors and figure out what the reason was for these structures. They are in many places in Western Europe. I would love to know the purpose for them.

[@romanzelgatas]

In my own studies, it seems most stones were connected to moon & tide sequences, as in when sea levels were higher, the boats could see the stones via within water inlets & guide them thru natural channels during high tides, Do they measure in "megalithic yards"??

[@ciarandevaney385]

Presenter is very unusual looking

[@XofHope]

Not a chance this was seen from the ocean or even a river.

[@fernandoveiga0738]

Hello. I have problably the solution to the constellations and the Holes, "Covinhas in Portugueses". Yes they are constellations if we remember that cromlech its a observatory. If any part can reach me i have the pleasure to say what i found. Best regards, Fernando Veiga

[@GiannisVeronis]

@3:30 try to do what you describe as the method they did it now with the same way...I bet you wont be able as this has been debunk already for all the rest of the megaliths around the globe

[@tunaofacasfilmes]

We call them "covinhas"

[@brucestrachan7873]

5:58: crescent moon, not a happy face emoji.

[@hartung692]

I was their in my early twenties…I wish I had the same intrigue and interest in ancient history then as I do now!!! 😢

[@samnfg]

✨Rocks✨

[@colinellicott9737]

Putting rocks in a pattern ... have you ever watched a young child playing with their toy blocks? Gobekli, Stonehenge, Pyramids of _____ (fill in the blank). Now we build space ships. Science good.

[@MrDerebail]

Circle of Life

[@HypoliteMaindron]

the banana-shape looks more like a moon-fase they didn’t have smileys then 😀

[@NOSFERATU_ONE]

whatt's beneath them?

[@diogorodrigues747]

Beneath the cromlech or the dolmen?!

[@bokzdantv3360]

Come to meghalaya u will find thousand of monoliths and the tallest one is 8 meter and 2 meter widths

[@TalkToMeInTagalog]

Wait a sec, let me phone Giorgio Tsoukalos. 😁🛸

[@808_rafa]

ANCESTORS! What does it all mean?! 🧐

[@cleverclogs2244]

Those dents would stop something slipping - like a pile of clay, so you could create a headdress from flowers and leaves... just a thought...

[@benwilson6145]

Similar age to the Stones of Stenness.

[@brucestrachan7873]

They're cousins!

[@hilarykirkby4771]

Ring and cup markings such as these are found also in Scotland, usually on rising ground. The most convincing theory I've heard is that the depressions were filled with fat and ignited, to communicate with neighbouring peoples.

[@XofHope]

They're too small to be able to produce a fire visible from the distance. The area is quite flat and, considering the vegetation, they'd hardly been seen from even 1 km away.

[@boredgrass]

The back and forth between subtitles and narration is extremely annoying. Often, I watch but stop after one or two minutes and look for other videos about the subject. If one activates “cc”subtitles, one gets different fonts in very different sizes. That's no fun to deal with either. My suggestion: Continuous subtitles, your subtitles are much better to read on a phone screen than the “cc” provided by KZbin and uninterrupted narration. The content I have seen would be worth the effort!

[@animalpower7315]

Just an ancient hardscape store

[@rd9831]

7000 yrs ago , due to precession of the axis of rotation, the alignment of stones had to be quite different from todays orientation. So the stones would not be correctly aligned for todays solstices.

[@mariorosario4428]

Precession doesn’t affect the ecliptic or the angle between the celestial equator and the ecliptic. As a result, it doesn’t affect the Sun’s position relative to the horizon.

[@user-rx7hv3zi9g]

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