In the area of Alcalar is an important Neolithic burial ground, which remains as the "monument no. 7" composed of a circular chamber plates of shale that is accessed by a corridor, like identical monuments scattered throughout Western Europe, highlighting the monuments found in Ireland.
Late Neolithic / Chalcolithic (3200-1200 BC)
National Monument (Decree of June 16, 1910)
The floor is limestone shale and sandstone. The vault, with two side niches rituals, was surmounted by two slabs, and protected by a mound. Near Alcalar there is another cemetery in Monte Shins.
Set of megalithic funerary temples, built and used over several centuries. are
a megalithic necropolis, related to a broad habitat in the immediate vicinity of
tombs, which was the hegemonic center of the western Algarve in the 3rd millennium BC In Area, located natural cavities (caves) and crypts artificially excavated in the rock (hypogea), which, at the same time, were used as collective tombs.
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