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A 5,000-Year-Old Dolmen Reenters History: Medieval Islamic Burials Transform the Meaning of Menga
For most of its modern history, the Menga Dolmen has been treated as a closed chapter of European prehistory—a monumental relic frozen in the Neolithic past. New research now shows that this assumption is fundamentally wrong. Far from being abandoned after antiquity, Menga was intentionally reclaimed as a sacred space during the Islamic Middle Ages,…
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Echoes Across Neolithic Catalonia: Newly Analysed Shell Trumpets Reveal a 6,000-Year-Old Sound Network
The first time researchers blew into the ancient Charonia shells, the lab filled with a low, resonant tone — the kind of sound that could roll across valleys, reach distant settlements, and mark the presence of a community long gone. According to a new study in Antiquity, these shells were not simple curiosities. They were…