Aveiro - Prehistoric Portugal

Necrópole Megalítica de Chão Redondo

by John IglarArt, Dolmens, Megaliths 27 June 202427 June 2024No Comments

ALSO IDENTIFIED AS: Dólmen 2 (or Anta 2) de Chão Redondo, or Monumentos Megalíticos do Chão de Redondo From a distance, it doesn’t seem very extraordinary. There’s a remnant of the large mound of stone and earth which originally covered the prehistoric tomb. The tomb itself looks fairly typical of an average-sized neo-chalcolithic chamber tomb. …

Trilobite Museum

by John IglarFossils, Museums 4 December 202324 December 2023No Comments

In the gallery, the rectangular sheets of black rock line the walls all around. White-grey images adorn each one. Some are of individual animals, others of groups. Many simply show the trilobites as they had lived (or at least, as they had died). Others showed evidence of specific behaviours such as traveling in a column, …