Dolmenes de Antequera

One of the great mysteries of that dark time that we called Prehistory is the one of the megalithic constructions, very abundant in our province.
To the northeast of the city of Antequera is one of the best ones and more known explaining the Spanish megalitismo, the dolmenico set of Menga, Would see and the Romeral.

In less than three kilometers three types of dolmenes imagine to us: of gallery they dolmen of Menga, of runner the one of Would see, and false cupola or toloi the one of the Romeral. This concentration is unequivocal signal of the importance and sacralidad that this earth must have during the extensive time that had to mediate between the construction of oldest, coarse and ciclopeo which it is Menga, and the one of most modern and refining, of Eastern influence, that is the Romeral

They dolmen of Menga is dolmen of covered gallery and plants almost rectangular. The zone considered like burial camera, to the bottom, is composed by 7 ortostatos to each side and one to the bottom. The set is covered with five enormous slabs, being last the greatest one, of about 6 ms of length by 7 of side, and an approximated weight of 180 tons. These slabs of the ceilings are so enormous that three central pillars of square section like complementary support were put. It is covered, like the other two antequeranos monuments, by tumulo of earth. He is one of dolmenes more spectacular of the Iberian Peninsula and, probably, all Europe.

Carvings on the rock of the entrance are enigmatic ideomorfos symbols, that have also been in diverse caves of the Iberian Peninsula.

The one of Would see, to about 70 ms of Menga, is dolmen of runner. It presents/displays three doors that differentiate a corridor, a runner and a final camera. The doors that limit the runner are two bored stones of half meter of thickness. In the end is the call burial, basic camera square and factory similar to the one of the runner, although the stones are larger.

The Romeral is a monument that moves away a little the type dolmen, because it is constituted by smaller stones, very similar to the one of Would see as far as the corridor and the final camera, that in the one of the Romeral is continued with another smaller camera. This final camera is basic circular and ceiling in false vault, very similar to the micenicos temples. The false vault is constituted by a stone superposition in successive layers that excel almost until closing the ceiling, whose final hole covers a megalito.

What towns were the constructors of these magnificent works? Technical what could use?

The archeologists imagine a town of the called time Calcolitico, between the 3,000 and the 2,000 a.C. A primitive town that would live on agriculture and the cattle ranch, with a tribal and Barbarian organization. Nevertheless, in the construction of these monuments, mainly in they dolmen of the Menga, oldest, besides the rudimentary tools of stone and bronze, would need a good knowledge the handle, having supposed that the slabs majors, of up to 180 tons, could be transported and you rise with these means.

Also a densidad would make lack of population and social organization far beyond the one of a simple village or isolated tribe. With a hierarchy clearly established. And mainly, an idea strong and powerful, able to mobilize as much effort and dedication in a work of millenarian duration.

What drove those primitive men to construct such wonders concentrated in a space so reduced?
In spite of the explanations of the archeologists, the calls funeral cameras do not have signs of human skeletons can identify that them like tombs. In the cave of Menga have only been two polished stone axes, and in those of It would see and the Romeral have been some equipment of chert and bone, and some rest of ceramics. It is alluded to the amount of time that been has exposed to pillage, but, perhaps to the rustic medieval or modern farmers it could interest the subject as much to them as to also rob the skeletons?

They would be constructed by made an effort village does 5,800 to 4,500 years or by some enigmatic civilization unknown of the same or greater antiquity, which we can perceive in these prehistoric temples, if we put ourselves in the state of brings back to consciousness suitable, is a feeling of respect, astonishment and admiration, when the feeling us within a mystery.