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These mysterious stone structures are found throughout Eurasia - from Spain to Korea. The most ancient of them appeared earlier than the Egyptian pyramids. Who, when and why built them is unknown. People endow them with mystical properties. These are dolmens.

Peers of the pyramids

It is believed that the name "dolmen" came from the Breton language: toal - "table" and men - "stone", which literally means "stone table". Allegedly, for the first time these ancient megaliths were discovered by scientists, studied and described in Brittany. This hypothesis is not without foundation. Indeed, Western European dolmens, most often representing roughly processed stone slabs, the largest of which - horizontal - laid on two or three smaller ones, set vertically, are a bit like tables, but it would be extremely inconvenient to feast at them.

Caucasian dolmens look much more elegant. These are neat stone houses, made up of five or six massive stone slabs. Four plates are the walls, the fifth is the roof, and the sixth (not always happens) is the floor. There is a round hole on the front wall of the dolmen. It could be closed with a stone cork shaped like a mushroom.

The average size of Caucasian dolmens is three meters in length, two in width and two in height. The diameter of the round hole is about 40 centimeters. Each stone slab weighs from three to eight tons. The side walls and roof can protrude forward, forming a portal over the front plate with an opening. The rear wall may be lower than the front, and then the roof has a slope back. All parts of the dolmen are carefully processed and fitted to each other. Outside and inside the walls can be decorated with ornaments and some mysterious signs.

To date, about nine thousand dolmens have been identified in the world. They are found in England and France, Bulgaria and Turkey, in the Mediterranean countries, in Corsica and Malta, as well as in India, Palestine, North Korea ... But most of all dolmens are located along the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus, from Anapa to Abkhazia. On this coastal strip up to 75 kilometers wide, archaeologists have found about three thousand dolmens, of which a hundred are only in the Gelendzhik region.

It has been established that the age of the most ancient of these amazing structures is more than 10 thousand years (that is, they are the same age as the pyramids, which are also older than is commonly believed). No less striking is the fact that the older the dolmens, the more perfect their architectural forms and the more magical power they possess. One gets the impression that they were built by some ancient highly developed civilization, and the subsequent dolmens, built in 11-1 millennia BC and later, are only a cruder imitation of ancient models.

The Adyghes call the Caucasian dolmens "syrpun", which means "houses of dwarfs". The Ossetians have a legend about the people of dwarfs - bitsenta, who are endowed with supernatural features. So, for example, bicenta is able to knock down a large tree with one glance. Also, with the power of his gaze, he is able to lift and move huge blocks of stone. And this people lives in the sea. The Ossetians claim that the ancestors of the Caucasian peoples - the Narts - also came out of the sea and gave culture to people. Cossacks call dolmens "heroic huts". There is another original version of the origin of this name - “changing share”. And it is also not without foundation, which will be discussed below.

Do you know that…
In Brittany (France), women deliberately spent nights in dolmens to recover from infertility or to beg for a happy marriage. This is evidenced by the relief on the back wall of one of them.

The purpose of the dolmens

There are several versions of the purpose of dolmens.

Version 1. Dolmens are part of a single world structure, which also included other megaliths and Egyptian pyramids. The locations of the dolmens were not chosen by chance. They play the role of a kind of conductor connecting the earth with the information grid responsible for the development of earthly civilization.

Version 2. Dolmens store in encrypted form ancient Vedic knowledge about a single perception of the world. The wisest man of the tribe went to the dolmen, after which it was closed with a stone plug for a certain time. Being in a dolmen, a person received Vedic knowledge, and the megalith itself absorbed the knowledge of its tribe and clan. And now our contemporary, who has extrasensory abilities, is able to receive this information. Having tuned in to the right wave with the help of meditation, he is able to literally change his share, that is, fate.

Version 3. Dolmens are portals that open the way to other worlds and dimensions. With the help of certain techniques, a person's consciousness could leave his body and make such transitions. The journey itself could take a long time, and the closed chamber of the dolmen, protected from the elements, was the best fit for the role of body storage.

Version 4. Dolmens are tombs used for burial by many nations. They buried leaders, sages, shamans, that is, the most honored members of society. At the same time, some mystical rites were performed. Before the next burial, the old remains were removed from the dolmens. Therefore, it is almost impossible to find a tomb with an undisturbed early burial.

Version 5. Dolmens were used for psychogenic effects on humans. By tuning the dolmen to a certain frequency, it is possible to ensure that a person enters a special state of trance and can prophesy (as shamans do).

Version 6. Dolmens were used for technological purposes, for example, for ultrasonic welding of jewelry. There are a number of antique pieces of jewelry that are made using an unknown process of attaching small parts to a base, reminiscent of high frequency or ultrasonic welding.

ancient internet

As a rule, the building blocks of the ancient dolmens of the Caucasus consist of quartz sandstone, and rocks that are quite hard and difficult to process. And quartz is a mineral with quite interesting properties. It has become widespread in radio engineering due to the fact that under the influence of compression, the so-called piezoelectric effect occurs. That is, quartz is able to generate an electric current, as well as stabilize the frequency, maintaining constant oscillations. In addition, under mechanical stress, quartz can emit radio waves. Most of the dolmens are located in seismically active fault zones of the earth's crust, which at a certain moment can serve as waveguides, while the structures themselves can become receivers and transmitters. Such an activated dolmen is able to capture the radiation of a person inside it and convert it into ultrasonic vibrations, after which they can be transmitted through waveguide faults to other dolmens. If there are people tuned in to the same wavelength, they can receive the transmitted information.

Thus, the dolmen system was a global information system of the ancients, a prototype of the modern Internet, only much more perfect, because the transfer of information occurred instantly, at the subconscious level, and mental and visual images were transmitted instead of digital packages and files. In addition, according to the supporters of this theory, dolmens could also serve as a database in which the knowledge and wisdom of the ancients were accumulated and stored.

Dolmen researchers are perplexed by the question of how our ancestors, who did not have modern machines and tools, could cut, process, lift and deliver multi-ton stone blocks to hard-to-reach mountainous areas. But if we assume that these “houses” were built not by Neanderthals at all, but by a powerful Aryan (Vedic) or Atlantean civilization, they had enough knowledge and technology to create a worldwide information network by installing receivers-transmitters in the form of dolmens at energetically active points Earth.

Unfortunately, at present, this network cannot function, because the vast majority of ancient dolmens have been destroyed as a result of wars and natural disasters. And in our time, their destruction continues by modern humanity, which has lost respect for the ancient shrines.

By the way, the builders of dolmens did not have to move stone blocks at all. It was possible to make a formwork, pour concrete interspersed with quartz into it - and the structure is ready without any extra effort. By the way, traces of such formwork were imprinted on some walls of dolmens. And applying images to unhardened concrete is much easier than chiseling solid stone. By the way, there is a theory that the famous Egyptian pyramids were built in the same way. It is quite possible that they were built at the same time as the dolmens and served for the same purposes of serving the global information network.

I first learned about dolmens about four years ago, when my friend returned from vacation from Anapa, where he was visiting his parents, and brought back a small souvenir in the form of a box of flat stones with a round hole in one of the sides. After his brief story, I got the feeling that these constructions were used by people in the past in a completely different way than people think about them (at that time I was not yet familiar with the wonderful books of A. Novykh). Time passed and my re-acquaintance with dolmens happened after reading "Ezoosmos". Visually, I already at least imagined how they look. The question of a detailed study arose, but as always, thousands of reasons prevented us from delving into and understanding. I hope today, by joint efforts, we will be able to issue a more or less worthwhile introductory material.

I'm going off topic a bit. The whole process of creating an article, from collecting information to collecting everything together, was accompanied by the most severe attacks of the animal nature and all sorts of septonic barriers. From the initial thoughts like: “Here he took the initiative, what do you need it for, let someone else do it, it won’t work, drop it, etc.”, after the light infantry was ignored, heavy artillery entered the battle in the form of often not working Internet, slowing down the computer, then the disappearance of the collected information, even a fire that almost happened on the landing from problems with electrical wiring. When this did not stop, ZhN began to attack through my loved ones and relatives - my daughter and wife. Quarrels arose over trifles, but knowing where the roots grow from, he tried to keep the blow, so to speak. Well, okay, as the cat Leopold sang: “We will survive this trouble.”

So let's go.

General description and location.

Ancient peoples from Britain to India built no less amazing structures from huge slabs - dolmens. Dolmens belong to the group of ancient megaliths (translated from Greek, the word " megalith" means "a huge stone") and are man-made structures of a certain shape, built from massive stone slabs or stone blocks. These ancient mystical structures, whose age, according to some estimates, range from 2 thousand years to 7-8 thousand years (sometimes they even give the figure of 10,000 years!) are distributed all over the world, in various countries and cultures. Some scientists believe that the first dolmens were built on the Iberian Peninsula in 4000-3500 BC. BC e. Other researchers claim that the earlier center of construction is the Balearic Islands, Sardinia and Corsica.

Today in the world there are about at least 9000 dolmens. These buildings are found in Bulgaria and Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast, on the islands of Corsica and Malta, in Spain and Portugal. Many dolmens have been discovered on the territory of modern England and France. Even on the islands of Polynesia, many of them have been found. Also, dolmen structures were discovered in North Africa in Roknia, India, Palestine and North Korea (more than 50% of all dolmens in the world are located on the Korean Peninsula and most of them are located in Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa Island; before the start of the war 1950-1953 There were about 80,000 of them, at least 30,000 have survived to date, but this in no way proves that Korea is the birthplace of dolmens). A large cluster of dolmens is located along the Black Sea coast, especially in the Caucasus, where they are found in the coastal strip and stretch along the coast for 400 km from Anapa, Novorossiysk to Abkhazia. The width of this strip towards Novorossiysk is 75 km and in this territory, at the moment, archaeologists have found about 3,000 dolmens. It is believed that the earliest dolmens were built here at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC.

These are huge flat stone slabs, four of which are installed vertically and covered from above by the fifth slab. The weight of this cover can reach tens of tons, dimensions - up to 10 meters. The farther from the sea, the smaller the stone buildings become. The front plate has a small oval or round hole. The blocks of stone from which the dolmens are composed are practically not processed on the outside, but on the inside they are leveled and almost polished.

Dolmens are common in many countries of the world. As noted above, they gravitate towards watersheds, karst areas, slopes with a river, and mountainous wooded areas. Currently, more and more previously unknown dolmens are being discovered in many countries of the world:

Map of the location of dolmen zones in the Western Caucasus. List of dolmen zones. Markovin V.I.

Which of the contemporaries discovered the dolmens is unknown. But the first descriptions were made by foreigners. In 1794, the German Peter Simon Pallas visited Taman and described the discovered stone houses. In 1818, the Frenchman Thebu de Marigny, a sailor in the Russian service, recorded in writing a group of 6 dolmens on the Pshada River. And during the Caucasian War in 1839, the English intelligence officer James Bell, who lived among the Shapsugs, made picturesque sketches of the highlanders against the backdrop of dolmens.

What does the word "dolmen" mean?

Different peoples have a lot of definitions and meanings. Since we have already undertook to learn more about them, I will give what I managed to find. The name "dolmen" comes from the combination of two Breton words, namely "toal", "dol" - "table" and "men" - "stone", which literally means "stone table". There are also other interpretations of the word "dolmen", - "changing share" ...

"Omniscient Wikipedia" gives the following definitions of dolmens among different peoples:

Abkhazians: psaun - the house of the soul, the soul of a person; adamra, akhatgun - burial houses.
Adygea: ispun, ispyun, spyun (Shapsugs); khaunezh - houses for life in the afterlife akhretun.
Kabardians: isp-une - the house of ispa.
Mingrelians: mdishkude, ozzvale, sadzvale - houses of giants, a receptacle of bones.
Cossacks: heroic huts or huts, didov and devil huts.
In Portugal, dolmens are usually called "antha", in Scandinavia - "röse"; these words are part of the names of local dolmens.

There are also these versions:

The Adyghes call the Caucasian dolmens "syrp-un", which means houses of dwarfs. The Ossetians have a legend about the people of dwarfs - bitsenta, who are endowed with supernatural features. So, for example, the dwarf bicent is capable of knocking down a huge tree with one glance. According to legend, dwarfs live in the sea. Ossetians claim that the ancestors of the Caucasian peoples - the mythical Narts also came out of the sea and gave people culture.

V. Yashkardin describes it this way on his website: http://www.dopotopa.com/v_yashkardin_dolmeny_1.html.

The word "Dolmen" appeared in Russian archeology after the 1840s. For example, Felitsyn E.D. in 1879 he uses the word "Dolmen" in his work, and already in later works he uses the word "Dolmen". Until that time, in the scientific works of Pallas P.S., Tebu de Marigny E., Ashik A.B., Dubois de Montpere, James Bell S. and others, the words used to designate a dolmen:
Graber (grave), Hugel (mound), de petits tumulus ( small tumulus), coffres en pierres (stone box), pays maison (hut), tombeaux (grave), tombe (tomb), etc.

The first to describe the origin of the word "dolmen" in Russia was the famous Russian archaeologist, Count A.S. Uvarov. In his work "Megalithic monuments in Russia", he detailed the origin of this word. Uvarov A.S. claims that the word "dolmen" was coined by the French scientist Bodin, from the Celtic words tol (table) and men (stone). Jean-Francis speaks remarkably about the megalithic monuments of Saumur: dolmens, cromlechs, menhirs, etc. He confidently uses these terms, without any explanation of the origin of these words. So he calls the ancient stone buildings of the Celts. There are no Celtic stone tables (tol-men) here either, it turns out that Boden does not know about this. It can be assumed that Uvarov A.S. did not read Jean-Francis Bodin, but enjoys criticism from the encyclopedia.

Since Uvarov A.S. - one of the main archaeologists of Russia at that time, then his opinion is accepted a priori. For example, Felitsyn E.D. repeats this story in his work, which is the basis of all further research. To the credit of Soviet archaeologists, they do not mention Bodin J.-F. in that vein. Lavrov Leonid Ivanovich does not mention tol-men (stone table). Markovin Vladimir Ivanovich in his main work on dolmens very carefully described this term. He gave a link to the French encyclopedia of 1966, but indicated the time of the term "dolmen" at the end of the 18th century (this is definitely not Bodin J.-F.)

Let's explain the words of Markovin V.I. about the end of the 18th century. The word "dolmen" was already used in the works of French scientists of the late 18th century: Pierre Jean-Baptiste Legrand d "Aussy (1737-1800), Theophile Malo Corret de la Tour d" Auvergne (1743-1800).

One can especially single out the book of the famous "Celtomaniac" (collector of short stories) Theophilus Malo, "Galian origin" of 1792, in which he defines the word as the ancient name of the upper stone of the sanctuary of the Gauls. From this it becomes clear that the word "dolmen" or "dolmin" of ancient origin. Now about the "stone table" (tol-men). The story is even more confusing and meaningless. In the English and French Wikipedias, this version, among etymologists, is highly doubtful. From the Celtic tol-men is a stone circle, not a stone table, although these concepts are close to them. There is no "Tol-men" in English and French, so the Celtic language is mentioned.

About the meaning of words:
DOLMEN - long changing, remembering,
DOLMEN - changing share,
TOLMAN - a circle of men, a gathering point for people changing the world, a stone circle.

The word denotes what carries its sound image and does not depend on the date of its creation. All other (local) names of dolmens are less ancient (my opinion), and was never called that in the original sources.

Examples of local names for dolmens:

Adyghes, Abkhazians: Ispun (houses of dwarfs), Spyun (cave), Keunezh (ancient grave houses), Adamara,
Mingrelians: Mdishkude (houses of giants, receptacle of bones), Odzvale (repository of bones), Sadzvale,
Cossacks: Bogatyr huts, Didov hut,
English: table-stone (stone table),
Celts: Dolmin (upper heavy stone of the sanctuary),
Irish: Dolmain (sanctuary),
Turks: Dolmatas...

We see that many who called dolmens that way had no idea what it was. Houses of dwarfs, giants, tables... Also, the word Pyramid can be called "heap of stones" and say that this is an ancient name. Open Google translator, there is a pronunciation of words from any language. Listen to the word PYRAMID, it sounds exactly like this in all languages, although it is spelled differently. Words sound the same in all languages, only when they were created in the common information space of the Earth. For example, the Russian word created in the 20th century is "Sputnik" (companion, walking together). The sound image of this word denotes its essence, and all over the world it sounds the same. So, the word Pyramid was created in the general information space of the Earth, which existed before our era. So this word sounded before the great flood, and during the construction of the pyramids (we read Herodotus, the Pyramids are called Pyramids, and he lived before our era). Perhaps the word "Dolmen", like "Pyramid", came to us from a previous civilization, and this remains to be seen. The peoples of our civilization, who lived near dolmens, may not have built them. And some were even afraid of them. For example, the Adyghe people called the dolmen ISPUN (from a puna that frightens us).

History of the study of dolmens.

Since the purpose of this article is mostly for informational purposes (in my opinion, it is better to pay more attention to the principle of operation and why these things were actually built).

Why were the recesses under the front plates of the dolmen so precisely shaped?

7. Relationships between the dimensions of the dolmen chamber.

Researchers have identified some regularities in the ratio of the dimensions of the inner chamber. The ratio of the width of the chamber in the front to the length of the chamber and to the width in the back is related as:

Tiled, Type 1, Option 1 (without holes): approx. 10/10/10, about 11 dolmens in total. Tiled, Type 1, Option 2 (portal): 10/12/8, 10/12/9, about 48 dolmens in total.

Tiled, Type 1, Option 3 (with portal protrusions): the pattern has not been established, there are about 7 dolmens in total. Tiled, Type 1, Option 4 Variety 1 (false-portal with a square base): 10/10/8, 10/10/9

Tiled, Type 1, Option 4 Variety 2 (false-portal with a trapezoidal base): 10/9/8

Tiled, Type 1, Option 4 Variety 3 (false-portal simplified): 10/8/7, 10/8/6 the pattern is poorly understood.

That is, there are several groups with a characteristic ratio of the length and width of the chamber. Any official or alternative hypothesis must explain the typical aspect ratio.

Why were dolmens built with a given aspect ratio?

8. The presence of a platform leveled to the horizon in front of the dolmen.

For dolmens, platforms were made aligned to the horizon, which exceeded the size of the foundation itself. That is, it is necessary to explain the purpose of these platforms, since for stability it was enough to level only the platform under the base of the dolmen.

Lavrov L.I. [Dolmens of the Northwestern Caucasus, 1960]:

"Researchers of Caucasian dolmens, as a rule, did not pay attention to the obligatory presence of a flat platform in front of the facade. Only A.F. Leshchenko mentions the platform. At the same time, the platform can be noted in all cases known to me. If the dolmen stands on flat surface, then the role of the indicated platform was played very often by an unmarked space adjacent to the facade. In such cases, it is really difficult to notice. But if the dolmen stands on a mountainside, then the platform catches the eye. In such cases, it usually turns out to be sometimes natural, and sometimes an artificial small flat space in front of the facade, while immediately behind the back wall of the dolmen a more or less steep uphill begins.

9 dolmens are known, in which the area in front of the facade is fenced with menhirs, and in 1 dolmen (village Dzhubga) - with a fence of large hewn stone blocks. The site near the monolithic dolmen on the Godlik River (2.5x2.5 m in size) was carved in the same stone as the dolmen itself and, being on the same level with the floor of the latter, is located at a height of 3 m above the ground.

Why did they make flat areas in front of the facade of the dolmens on a level with the floor of the dolmen?

Any hypothesis about the purpose of dolmens should give a simple and understandable answer to the above questions, without any exaggeration and verbiage (they wanted so much, they thought, but in fact ... etc.).

There is repeatability, which means there is manufacturability and there must be logic in actions ...

To be continued...

Prepared by: Alexander N (Ukraine)

Dolmens are special buildings made of huge stones and intended for burial and religious ceremonies.

The history of the origin of dolmens

It is believed that the first dolmens appeared in the fourth millennium BC. The first was the Iberian Peninsula. But according to some sources, already in the fifth millennium they were already on the island of Sardinia. North Africa and Sicily were next in line. Then Asia Minor. This is the third millennium. And at the same time, dolmens appeared in the Western Caucasus. After the first millennium BC, dolmens were no longer built.

16th century Careful study of the dolmens of the Caucasus.

1660. Priest Johan Picardt from the Netherlands claims that dolmens are the work of giants. When people began to take stones for their needs (construction).

1734. In the Netherlands (the city of Drenth), a law is passed on the protection of mysterious structures.

1912 Painstaking study of dolmens by archaeologists and other scientists. What was not found during the excavation: ceramic fragments, axes made of silicon, beads made of amber. And, of course, the remains of human bodies. Food was left in ceramic vessels for the dead.

Where can you see dolmens?

North Africa
South and Southeast Asia (India and Indonesia, Vietnam and Korea)
Russia (Western Caucasus)
Europe

Moreover, in different territories there can be a completely different number of dolmens: for the whole of China, for example, there are less than a thousand, and in Korea more than thirty thousand.

How a dolmen works. Types of dolmens

Tiled. It makes up more than 90% of all dolmens. Six plates were used, corresponding to the faces of the cube. There is a hole on the front wall of the dolmen. It can be varied in shape: round, oval, square. There may also be a special plug that closes the hole. False portal dolmen is a term meaning the absence of a hole in the building, more often it is located behind or on the side.
Composite. Made from blocks. The simplest design is a large stone, placed on others in the form of the letter P.
Semi-monolithic, or trough-shaped. A depression was made in the stones from the rocks, covered with a slab.
Monolithic. It was located directly in the rock.

The parts of the dolmen are connected firmly, there are almost no gaps between the plates. Granite slabs, sandstone or limestone were used for construction.

Another type of dolmen with a barrow. It was built at ground level, and a mound was poured over it.
Dolmen in the shape of the letter T. The main part of the structure was combined with a corridor in one variation or another.

Another important nuance is the decoration of dolmens. Some of them contain patterns on both the outer and inner surfaces. The drawings are represented by zigzag lines, labyrinths, geometric shapes and even landscapes.

Appointment of dolmens does not cause controversy among scientists. Archaeological excavations have repeatedly confirmed that the dolmens were a kind of funeral.

How were ancient dolmens built?

To begin with, they chose a stone in places nearby, but rather stone slabs. But if there was no material nearby, they could be brought. Then the turn came to the processing of stone. They did this with the help of tools, and also took wedges from wood. After that, the stone was left for a certain time to make it stronger. The stone was polished with special graters and only then was used for the construction of dolmen tombs.

Dolmens in Russia

There are about two thousand dolmens. Mostly in the Caucasus region. The resort towns of Sochi, Tuapse, Gelendzhik, Novorossiysk can boast of the presence of these mysterious buildings. The dolmens of the Western Caucasus have been studied most fully and in detail by the domestic scientist V.I. Markovin. He owns descriptions of more than two thousand dolmens. In 1971, the scientist investigated the dwellings of dolmen builders. Markovin believed that these people were not familiar with either iron or pottery. The main tool for farming was a hoe, and they had not even heard of a plow. Other scientists also wonder how such buildings were created without special tools. According to historians, earlier there were about thirty thousand dolmens in the Caucasus. But as a result of the wars, they were destroyed.

There are also burial places of this kind in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic. They differ in that the plates in them are conscientiously aligned. In Russia, dolmens are not protected, which is why some have a desire to get some benefit from them. The ruin of dolmens is due to forestry workers, sectarians, black diggers, tourists, businessmen and many others.

Issues still unresolved:

The average weight of a plate ranges from five to twenty tons. How were they delivered and transported at that time?
What tools were used to process the slabs?
How did the builders achieve the perfect correlation of the plates with each other?
How were ornaments and drawings applied on the stone?
What civilization do these structures belong to?

When, in the middle of the 17th century, a Dutch priest first began to examine the structure he found of huge stone slabs, he came to the conclusion that it was built by giants.

There was no other explanation for how stones of this size could be stacked on top of each other for a long time.

And even now in the history of dolmens, as these stone foundlings were later called, there are many white spots, despite the fact that they are found in different countries on different continents and have been studied by scientists of all stripes for more than three hundred years.

Origin story

Dolmens - "stone table" translated from Celtic- belong to the culture of megaliths, that is, tribes that used huge stones in buildings. Nothing is known about these peoples, nothing remains of them, except for these huge structures.

Ancient dolmens were found on the territory of the modern Krasnodar Territory and Adygea, then the territory of their appearance resembles a vicious circle: North Africa - Spain - Portugal - France - Holland - northern Germany - along the Danube to the Balkans - the Western coast of the Black Sea.

Perhaps the tribes of megaliths roamed or migrated along this path. But how then to explain the existence of dolmens in India or even Japan - scientists do not know.

Most often dolmens – these are structures made of giant stone slabs, which are either folded in the form of a round hut, or composed in the form of the letter “P”, or represent the same “stone table”, when four vertically standing slabs are covered on top of the fifth.

It is these dolmens that can be found in the Krasnodar Territory.

Dolmens of Gelendzhik and the south of Russia

Near Gelendzhik, the largest concentration of dolmens has been preserved, although individual ancient monuments are found almost throughout the Northwestern Caucasus.

There are about 2500 of them in total. Almost all Caucasian dolmens are of the tiled type, but all of them are unique, and none of them is similar to the other, which is why they are of interest to world science.

Patterns in their buildings have not yet been identified.

However, there is one feature that distinguishes the Caucasian dolmens from all others: a round hole on the front plate with a diameter of about 40 cm.

Human burials and household items were found in dolmens, which allowed scientists to conclude that dolmens were intended.

On the one hand, these were tombs, in some of which several people were buried. On the other hand, religious buildings, monumental, powerful, associated with astronomical patterns.

Traditional theories today have many critics who believe that the few burials in dolmens indicate that these buildings had a different purpose.

Mysteries of the prehistoric era

The most interesting feature of the Caucasian dolmens is their invulnerability to natural disasters. Located in the mountains, where avalanches and destructive mudflows often come down, dolmens never get in the way of sweeping streams.

There were cases when the mudflow passed a few meters from the dolmen, but did not touch it. How the ancients determined such safe places is still a mystery. Dolmens are destroyed only by people - during the construction of roads, houses, during logging.

Another theory related to the mysterious dolmens concerns the stone itself. All stone slabs were cut from rocks containing quartz. This mineral has some curious properties, for example, when compressed, quartz generates an electric current, and under the influence of current, quartz crystals are able to generate ultrasound.

Based on these data, a theory has developed that dolmens, under certain conditions, could be a source of frequencies that are not perceived by the human ear, but have a certain, often negative, effect on his brain. It is assumed that this property of theirs could be used against enemy troops or ill-wishers.

Many inhabitants consider dolmens to be "places of power" or even portals to other dimensions.. Scientists believe that the pilgrimage of just such lovers of mysticism and esotericism destroyed a significant number of ancient monuments.

Where and how to see stone structures

Scientists have established that initially there were about 7 thousand dolmens in the Caucasus, now there are a little more than 150 left. .

Most of them are located in the area of the cities of Gelendzhik and Tuapse.

Near Gelendzhik, the largest accumulation of stone structures is located in the area of the Shirokaya Shchel farm, on Neksis Mountain, on the Zhana and Pshada rivers, on Gypsy Mountain.

There are several ways to look at this miracle of human history:

On one's own. There are enough maps on the Internet with the location of dolmens. Following them, it is quite possible to find and explore these sights without outside help. About two dozen of them are located near Gelendzhik, and the path to them is not difficult.

Excursions. In this case, the tourist is waiting for an amazing variety. Tours are available for groups, the price of the tour is about 300 rubles plus 100 rubles at the entrance to protected areas or individual from 500 rubles. per person. You can choose a hiking trip to the dolmens or the most comfortable one - by bus or even an all-terrain vehicle.

There are truly enthusiastic people among the inhabitants of the Black Sea coast who lay their routes based on books about dolmens or their own observations. Such enthusiasts sometimes organize two- or three-day hiking or cycling trips to the most interesting dolmens. Payment is negotiable.

It is impermissible to visit the Gelendzhik region and not look at the real miracle and the main mystery of these places - the ancient - older than the Egyptian pyramids - dolmens.

Many people have heard about such structures as dolmens. However, by whom and why they were created, there is no exact answer to this question to this day. Their creators disappeared, leaving no other trace behind.

These are megalithic structures, the name came from the Breton tol - table, men - stone, usually they are made of four stone slabs, placed on edge, and covered with a fifth slab, as a rule, the slabs are fitted very tightly. The thickness of the plates is about 30 cm, the transverse dimensions are one and a half to two meters. There are dolmens that are made of a single piece of stone, as well as those made of stone blocks, but this is quite rare. There is a hole in the front part, the diameter of which is about half a meter, it is closed with a massive stone plug. Corks were usually found next to dolmens or directly in the hole.

The multi-ton slabs from which the dolmens are assembled are almost untreated on the outside, although sometimes the slabs are decorated with ornaments, but on the inside, which forms the walls of the chamber, they are carefully aligned, sometimes almost polished. What is curious - around the places where the dolmens are located - singly or in a group, the soils swim; landslides break down, mudflows rush through, but we have never seen any disturbances from these formidable and dangerous phenomena, although sometimes the edge of a landslide break is only a dozen meters from the dolmen. And on the sites of ancient landslides, the destroyed parts of dolmens have never been found. This amazing forecast for the millennium ahead is truly amazing! The local population notes that megaliths are always located in "good" places where you can rest, think, relax, find water.

Scientists believe that the approximate age of these structures is 3 - 10,000 years. The most famous of the dolmens are located in Scandinavia, on the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of Europe and Africa, on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus, on the Kuban region, in India.

Usually, the material for dolmens was quartz sandstone, which sometimes had to be delivered to the construction site for many kilometers. In this regard, the hypothesis put forward by the Gelendzhik researchers is curious. Most of all, dolmens resemble the Absolute Black Body model, a kind of ideal emitters. The material of the dolmen is quartz sandstone, a mineral that has very interesting properties, in particular, it is able to generate an electric current under the influence of compression (piezoelectric effect), as well as maintain the constancy of vibrations (frequency stabilization). This is the basis of its application in radio engineering. Under the influence of an electric current, quartz crystals generate ultrasound (reverse piezoelectric effect). It is also known that when mechanically deformed, quartz can generate radio waves.

Faults in the earth's crust, in the vicinity of which dolmens are located, under certain conditions, can play the role of waveguides, then the dolmens themselves are able to perform the function of both a receiver and an emitter. Imagine that a person is standing in front of a dolmen, its radiation can be captured by the dolmen, converted into ultrasonic vibrations and directed along the waveguide fault to other dolmens, and if a person who is tuned to the same wave is standing next to them, then he can perceive the transmitted information. Moreover, it is assumed that this information can somehow be accumulated and stored in this system. Well, maybe this is a global information system of ancient times.

Another fact is also curious: despite their extreme prevalence, dolmens can be found exclusively near the coastline, they are almost absent in the depths of the mainland. The coast of the Black, Adriatic, Mediterranean Seas, Ireland and Great Britain, presumably some of the regions of northern Europe. What kind of culture is this, which is spread so widely and at the same time tied to the sea coast? The time of the approximate construction of dolmens 10,000 years BC is also noteworthy. e. According to many of the legends, it was at that time that the crash occurred. It is located either in the Mediterranean Sea, or in various parts of the Atlantic, or in the Black Sea. But all these points are somehow very reminiscent of the distribution areas of dolmens.

Were the creators of dolmens the remnants of the people of Atlantis? The legend itself indirectly testifies in favor of such an assumption. If you resort to some esoteric sources, then it is possible to get acquainted with the theory according to which humanity in its development went through several stages, races, during which one of the principles of human consciousness developed. Our race is Aryan, its main task is the development of the mental principle, to learn to think, analyze, trace patterns. The previous race - the Atlantean - developed the astral principle, the principles of feeling, perception. For an Atlantean, the world was alive, integral, knowledge about its laws was not derived in a logical way, but simply was in the human mind as a given.

And just about 10,000 years ago, the Atlantean race was replaced by the Aryan race, which developed the principle of the mind. Mind - analyzes, compares. That is, a whole, living picture is broken into dead fragments. People temporarily cease to be a harmonious component of the surrounding world. This is what forces us to take serious measures to preserve the remnants of ancient, holistic knowledge, to build dolmens. Curious evidence from a completely different area.

As anthropologists testify, many thousands of years ago, most of the people were left-handed, that is, they were dominated by the right, figurative hemisphere, and approximately 5000 years ago, the bulk of humanity became right-handed. By the way, such creative personalities as Einstein, Picasso were left-handed ...

Under many of the dolmens there are burials of people, but as modern research has established, these burials are related to a later era than construction. Several skeletons were found in large dolmens. Maybe they served as crypts for the whole family. In most cases, dolmens are located in groups, as if making up a family settlement.

Of course, over the course of different eras, dolmens were both burial places and objects of worship, but is this their original function? What is the meaning of ancient architects invested in these mysterious buildings?

Purpose of dolmens - versions

Version 1: Dolmens are part of a single world structure, which also includes other megaliths and Egyptian pyramids. Places, locations of dolmens were not chosen by chance. They play the role of a kind of conductor connecting the earth with the information grid responsible for the development of earthly civilization.
Version 2: Recently, a version has been popular, according to which living people went to die in dolmens. They understood that one should not lose touch with the origins of mankind. In total darkness and silence they meditated. Radiation next to them is largely lower than background radiation. It's like she's from a different era.
Version 3: Tombs were used for burial by many peoples who, before burial, removed the remains of their predecessors from dolmens. Therefore, it is almost impossible to find a dolmen with an undisturbed early burial. More noble members of society were buried in dolmens, and certain rituals were performed near them.
Version 4: Perhaps the idea of building dolmens was accepted by the local tribes and received fertile ground in the local environment at the very time when the pyramids were being built in Egypt.
Version 5: Dolmens were used for psychogenic effects on humans. By tuning the dolmen to a certain frequency, it is possible to ensure that a person enters a special state of trance and can prophesy (as shamans do).
Version 6: Dolmens were used for technological purposes, for example, ultrasonic welding of jewelry. There are a number of Celtic pieces of jewelry that are made using an unknown process of attaching small parts to a base, resembling high frequency or ultrasonic welding.

Some of the dolmens are located in very hard to reach places. Another of the unique features is the similarity inherent in dolmens around the world. How people who built dolmens at about the same time, but in different parts of the world, built such identical structures (and not only outwardly, but apparently also for their intended purpose), remains a mystery.

It is also a big mystery how the place for the construction of dolmens was chosen. It was found that the dolmens are located in places of geologically active faults, oriented according to magnetic and astronomical criteria, with a high degree of accuracy. How could the ancient underdeveloped tribes do what we can only in our digital age with modern tools and equipment?

Many theories, both scientific and alternative, that exist regarding dolmens often contradict each other and do not reveal their mysterious origin. Will we ever be able to unravel this thousand-year-old mystery and understand the purpose of dolmens? Maybe they will remain for us only monuments of the outstanding skill of ancient architects, but perhaps over time, we will understand their purpose and what our ancestors wanted to tell us, leaving these mysterious silent structures all over the Earth that have stood for thousands of years. Who knows what mysteries and knowledge are hidden under the thickness of stone slabs of dolmens? Looking at these amazing structures, you involuntarily understand how little we still know about the lost civilizations that inhabited the Earth before us. Dolmens are without a doubt one of the most mysterious grains of the unknown history of the Earth, the secrets of which we have yet to unravel.