An extremely rare phenomenon. Due to a record drought, the water exposed Spain’s Stonehenge
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Now Spain is facing its worst drought in sixty years. According to officials, the water level in the reservoir has already dropped to 28 percent of its capacity.
A unique option
“It’s a surprise and a rare opportunity to get access to a rare building,” said the source Reuters archaeologist Enrique Cedillo from the Complutense University of Madrid. According to experts, the building itself has an unknown creator.
According to the New World Encyclopedia, the Dolmen de Guadalperal (also known as the Treasure of Guadalperal or the Spanish Stonehenge) consists of vertically arranged stones that support a flat boulder or stone. But how someone erected them many thousands of years ago remains a mystery. Because human possessions are commonly found near or in European dolmens, the structures are thought to have served as tombs, according to the New World Encyclopedia.
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“The last time Spaniards could see the Dolmen de Guadalperal was in 2019, when Europe was struggling with drought,” NASA said. It was then, according to NASA, the first time the entire structure of the building was visible since it was flooded in 1963.
Petition for Relocation
She was on the server in 2019 Change.org published petition of the Asociación Raíces de Peraleda for the relocation of the rare megalithic structure from the reservoir. So far, more than 45,000 people have signed it. “This is a megalithic dolmen of great value that is now fully accessible for the first time, and who knows if for the last time,” the petition reads.
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The statement goes on to say: The association appeals to the local authorities to relocate the dolmen, save it and take advantage of the current circumstances, as it is still well preserved.”
According to the organizers of the petition, the structure is deteriorating because the rock has become porous and is cracking in some places. They point out that if the building is not moved, it may not be strong enough in the future.
“The Iberian Peninsula, where the dolmen stands, is experiencing the worst drought in twelve hundred years, and rainfall is expected to decrease further,” according to a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Dolmen (from the Breton dol – table and men – stone, i.e. “stone table”) is a prehistoric megalithic structure made of large irregular stone blocks, usually of gigantic dimensions, probably the rest of the inner space of burial mounds. Dolmens are preserved in various parts of the world, in Europe (mainly Western) from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.
Dolmen of Guadalperal, also known as the Spanish Stonehenge for its similarity to the English Stonehenge, is a megalithic monument in Peraleda de la Mata, a town in the Campo Arañuelo region of eastern Extremadura, Spain. The monument is located inside the Valdecañas Reservoir on the Tagus River and is only visible when the water level allows.
This dolmen consists of 150 granite stones, so-called orthostats, which are placed in a vertical arrangement and form a chamber with a diameter of five meters. In front of them is an access corridor about 21 meters long and over one meter wide. At the end of the corridor, at the entrance to the chamber, there is a menhir about two meters high with a carved snake and several cups. These characters can serve as site protectors.
The monument was discovered in 1926 during a research and excavation campaign by the German archaeologist Hugo Obermaier. Archaeologists believe that this is a sun temple, the complex may also have served as a burial enclave. The Roman remains found – coins, ceramic fragments and a grinding stone – indicate that it was safely protected from looting at the time. In a nearby dump, researchers found eleven axes, pottery, quartz knives and a copper punch.
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