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Dolmen
Original title: 支石墓
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A stone-supported tomb (Japanese reading: shisekibo), also called a dolmen, is a type of megalithic tomb seen worldwide from the Neolithic period through the early Metal Age. Several supporting stones are arranged around a burial site, with an enormous capstone placed above them.
Western Europe is thought to be where the dolmen form originated earliest. However, the view has become very influential that dolmens did not spread from Western Europe around the world but arose entirely independently in each region according to its state of social development.
In Germany's Mecklenburg and Pomerania, tomb megaliths were used as building and road materials when cities and towns were constructed, and many dolmens were lost. Nevertheless, thousands of dolmens survive in Europe, with 4000 in France, 2000 in Britain, and over 1000 on Germany's island of Rügen alone.
The main builders of European dolmens are thought to have been Haplogroup G2a (Y chromosome).
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支石墓(しせきぼ)は、ドルメンともいい、新石器時代から初期金属器時代にかけて、世界各地で見られる巨石墓の一種である。基礎となる支石を数個、埋葬地を囲うように並べ、その上に巨大な天井石を載せる形態をとる。
支石墓という形態がもっとも早く発祥したのは、西ヨーロッパではないかとと考えられている。しかし、西ヨーロッパの支石墓が世界各地へ伝播したのではなく、それぞれの社会発展状況に応じて、全く別個に世界の各地域で支石墓が発祥したとする見方が非常に有力となっている。
ドイツのメクレンブルクやポモージェでは、都市や町の建設の際に、建築や道路の材料として墓の巨石が使われ、多くのドルメンが失われた。それでもヨーロッパには数千基のドルメンが現存しており、フランスに4000基、イギリスに2000基、ドイツのリューゲン島だけで1000基以上が残されている。
ヨーロッパにおける支石墓の主な作り手は、ハプログループG2a (Y染色体)と考えられる。
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