Concentrations of megaliths, dolmens (Adyghe: исп-унэ) and stone labyrinths dating between the end of the 4th millennium and the beginning of the 2nd millennium B.C. have been found (but little studied) throughout theCaucasus Mountains, including Georgia. Most of them are represented by rectangular structures made of stone slabs or cut in rocks with holes in their facade. These dolmens cover the Western Caucasus on both sides of the mountain ridge, in an area of approximately 12,000 square kilometres of Russia and Abkhazian region of Georgia.
The Caucasian dolmens represent a unique type of prehistoric architecture, built with precisely dressed large stone blocks. The stones were, for example, shaped into 90-degree angles, to be used as corners or were curved to make a circle.Approximately 3,000 of these megalithic monuments are known in the Western Caucasus, but more are constantly being found, while some are being destroyed. The North Caucasus Dolmens make up a lost city by the shore of the Black Sea. The dolmens could have been vaults and safes of metal objects and jewelry of metal workers and traders that were pillaged by the invading Scythians around the first millennium BC. Source: Wikipedia
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Primitive storm shelters - perhaps!
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