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Dolmens were usually covered with earth or smaller stones to form a barrow, though in many cases that covering has weathered away, leaving only the stone " skeleton " of the burial mound intact.
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The latter has a history which goes back to the times from when Dolmens were built, but is presently situated between two new districts of Assen.
Dolmens of Hwasun were registered with those of Ganghwa and Gochang county.
Dolmens and with
* William Copeland Borlase-The Dolmens of Ireland: their distribution, structural characteristics, and affinities in other countries, together with the folklore attaching to them ; supplemented by considerations on the anthropology, ethnology, and traditions of the Irish people ( 3 vols, London ).
Dolmens and stones
Dolmens and standing stones have been found in large areas of the Middle East starting at the Turkish border in the north of Syria close to Aleppo, southwards down to Yemen.
Dolmens and has
The area has been occupied from very early times, as is evidenced by the Neolithic remains ( pred 2000 BC ) such as Portal Dolmens.
Dolmens and stone
Dolmens and other neolithic monuments dot the landscape, including the Tour d ' Urkulu high in the mountains at 1, 149m — a 2, 000-year-old circular platform of huge stone blocks.
Dolmens and burial
According to historians, the Dolmens are burial sites.
The Dolmens widespread in Europe and much of Asia are interpreted as Neolithic burial chambers.
Dolmens and .
Dolmens can be found across Portugal, from simple ones to the more complex examples of megalithic architecture, such as the Almendres Cromlech or the Anta Grande do Zambujeiro.
Another monolithic monuments like Dolmens and rock-cut caves are at Porkulam, Chiramanengad, Eyyal, Kattakambal and Kakkad.
Dolmens and bronze daggers found in the area are uniquely Korean and can't be found in China.
The Gochang Dolmens located in Maesan village are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site and Historic Site # 391.
The nature reserve also contains some 700 Neolithic Dolmens, several of which can be viewed from the entry road.
Dolmens are jentilarri or jentiletxe, harrespil are jentilbaratz, caves can be jentilzulo or jentilkoba.
File: Korea-Gwangju-Gochang Dolmens 5350-06. JPG | Gochang Dolmen, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
File: Korea-Gwangju-Gochang Dolmens Gochang Dolmens 5325-06. JPG | Gochang Dolmen, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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On Sundays, with the permission of Captain Heard, who usually attended with two of his officers, services were held in the double cabin.
It usually turned out well for him because either he liked the right people or there were only a few wrong people in the town.
Francesca and Grazie were habitual committee chairmen and they usually managed to be elected co-chairmen, equal bosses, of whatever PTA or civic project was being launched.
The necrosis often involved only a portion of the length of a given fiber, and usually the immediately adjacent fibers were normal.
In contrast to the nuclear changes described above, another change in muscle nuclei was seen, usually occurring in fibers that were somewhat smaller than normal but that showed distinct cross-striations and myofibrillae.
Individual nuclei were usually oval to round, though occasionally elongated, and frequently small and somewhat pyknotic.
It is probably more effective than the expanded scholarship programs of the past decade, because the scholarship programs mainly aided the students with the best academic records ( who were usually middle-class ), and these students tended to use the scholarship funds to go to more expensive colleges.
The letters which poured forth from camps were usually written under adverse circumstances.
Owing to the restrained usages characteristic of 19th-century America, these letters usually were stereotyped and revealed little depth of feeling.
Such tactics were resorted to frequently with the unmanageable longhorns, and a thorough `` tailin' '' usually knocked the breath out of a steer, and so dazed 'im that he'd behave for the rest of the day.
The usually skiddy greens were moist and soft, so the golfers were able to strike their approach shots boldly at the flag-stick and putt firmly toward the hole without too much worry about the consequences.
The body caressed through my hands like cool satin, and my hands, usually tanned and dark, were pale beside it, and I asked it where the fire colors could come from the coolness of that body.
This need not imply that on average 50 % or more of altruistic acts were beneficial for the altruist in the ancestral environment ; if the benefits from helping the right person were very high it would be beneficial to err on the side of caution and usually be altruistic even if in most cases there were no benefits.
However, while usually Greek festivals were celebrated at the full moon, all the feasts of Apollo were celebrated at the seventh day of the month, and the emphasis given to that day ( sibutu ) indicates a Babylonian origin.
Apollo and Artemis used poisoned arrows to kill them, though according to some versions of the myth, a number of the Niobids were spared ( Chloris, usually ).
These free-standing statues were usually marble, but also the form rendered in limestone, bronze, ivory and terracotta.
In the United States, both state and federal appellate courts are usually restricted to examining whether the lower court made the correct legal determinations, rather than hearing direct evidence and determining what the facts of the case were.
Furthermore, U. S. appellate courts are usually restricted to hearing appeals based on matters that were originally brought up before the trial court.
The names were abandoned in Latin, which instead referred to the letters by adding a vowel ( usually e ) before or after the consonant ( the exception is zeta, which was retained from Greek ).
In their day, these ancient towns and cities were usually multi-storied and multi-purposed buildings surrounding open plazas and viewsheds and were occupied by hundreds to thousands of Ancestral Pueblo peoples.
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front fences were covered with Virginia creeper or trumpet vines or honeysuckle.
No drummers here, no pipers, and the red coats were covered with a fine film of dust.
The Chenoweth brothers were experienced bridge builders, and against the competition of other, and better known, bridge designers and builders they had constructed nine of the covered, wooden bridges on the Parkersburg and Staunton Turnpike a dozen years before, as well as many other bridges for several counties.
Some of them were then covered with a drop of Af in a moist chamber at 24-degrees for 30 - 40 minutes.
As controls other sections were similarly covered with Aj.
As many as seven decades of the time scale were thus covered isothermally.
They were covered with tiny white blossoms, their scant roots clawing at the stony ground, and wild birds darted in and about and through them so they were nearly alive with the rustle and cry.
I even ferreted out the materials from which shields were made -- linden wood covered with leather -- so I'd get the light reflections accurate.
Writing in the 1st century BC, Horace refers to the wax abacus, a board covered with a thin layer of black wax on which columns and figures were inscribed using a stylus.
Walls were then covered in a veneer of small sandstone pieces, which were pressed into a layer of binding mud.
The debates among these groups resulted in numerous synods, among them the Council of Sardica in 343, the Council of Sirmium in 358 and the double Council of Rimini and Seleucia in 359, and no fewer than fourteen further creed formulas between 340 and 360, leading the pagan observer Ammianus Marcellinus to comment sarcastically: " The highways were covered with galloping bishops.
However, he became gravely ill during the 1918 flu pandemic and, since Spain was neutral and thus under no wartime censorship restrictions, his illness and subsequent recovery were covered worldwide, giving the false impression ( in the absence of real news from anywhere else ) that Spain was the most-affected area.
The other body parts were covered in cloth, leather, lamellar, and / or Mountain pattern.
The walls were constructed of red, white and black rock quarried from the moats, and were covered with brass, tin and the precious metal orichalcum, respectively.
The Bahá ’ ís were imprisoned under horrendous conditions in a cluster of cells covered in excrement and dirt.
Uintatheres were huge creatures with long narrow skulls, of which the elongated facial portion carried three pairs of bony horn-cores, probably covered with short horns in life, the hind-pair having been much the largest.
The earliest suspension bridges were made of ropes or vines covered with pieces of bamboo.
The majority of his writings were of this type, and covered the Old Testament and the New Testament.
Historically, all living things were grouped as either animals or plants, and botany covered the study of all organisms not considered to be animals.
Women in art were covered in clothing from the neck down, including female goddesses like Athena, the patron of Athens who represented heroic endeavor.
By the end of 1346, reports of plague had reached the seaports of Europe: " India was depopulated, Tartary, Mesopotamia, Syria, Armenia were covered with dead bodies ".
During the Renaissance and the Baroque, visible brick walls were unpopular and the brickwork was often covered with plaster.
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