History of dolmens. Secrets of dolmens Names of scientists who studied dolmens

“Ordinary houses of ancient people, only made of stone,” skeptics say in defiance of them. “Beautiful architectural monuments,” scientists and archaeologists say about the dolmens.

Surprisingly, despite the difference in perception and characteristics, they are all right in their own way. Because no one knows for certain the true purpose of dolmens, as well as when and by whom they were built.

The Adygs call “heroic huts” “the dwarf’s house”

The word “dolmen” comes from the combination of two words in the Breton language, namely “toal” - “table” and “men” - “stone”, which literally means “stone table”.

There are other interpretations of the word “dolmen” - “changing share”, and the Circassians, for example, call dolmens “sypun” or “ispui”, which translated means “house of the dwarf”. For the Cossacks, these mysterious stone buildings are “heroic huts.”

Dolmens belong to the group of ancient megaliths (translated from Greek, the word “megalith” means “huge stone”) and are man-made structures of a certain shape, made of massive stone slabs or stone blocks.


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These ancient mystical structures, According to some scientists, they were built 7-8 thousand years ago (sometimes they even call the number ten thousand years!) distributed throughout the world. In the most different countries and cultures.

In terms of age, dolmens are much older than other stone structures - the Egyptian pyramids.

Among all the versions about the origin of dolmens, the Adyghe one is the most interesting. According to Adyghe legends, dolmens are the dwellings of dwarfs. In ancient times, tribes of dwarfs and giants lived in the mountains. Physically weak dwarfs were not able to build their own houses to shelter from bad weather.

Looking at their homeless life, the giants decided to build houses. After all, any of the tribe of giants could, without much effort, break out a stone slab in the mountains and, putting it on his shoulders, carry it to the place of construction. By the way, the weight of dolmens is from 5 to 20 or more tons.

The simplest version of a dolmen is a stone structure made up of several large stone blocks that form a certain architectural shape in the shape of the letter “P” (the simplest dolmens are made of three stone blocks). There are dolmens made from a single piece of stone, but this is much less common.

Of greatest interest are the dolmens of the Caucasus, which have a complete architectural form and consist, as a rule, of five or six massive stone slabs - four slabs stand vertically, a fifth rests on them, and the sixth slab serves as the bottom. Thus, the dolmen forms a kind of stone box.

Usually there is a hole in the front transverse slab of such dolmens, most often round shape. But sometimes there are holes of square or triangular shape. Although scientists do not rule out that they originally had a round shape.

Sometimes there are even dolmens that do not have a hole at all. The dolmen hole can be closed with a mushroom-shaped stone plug carefully adjusted to the size of the hole. The weight of such a cork can reach up to 100 kilograms.

Average sizes of Caucasian dolmens: three meters long, two wide and two high. The diameter of the round hole is about 40 cm. The weight of each stone slab on average ranges from 3 to 8 tons. Stone blocks are typically grooved together and have a very high degree of fit.

If you want to see a dolmen, go to the sea

Dolmens are found almost all over the world. In France, England, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Spain, Bulgaria and Turkey, on the coast Mediterranean Sea, on the islands of Corsica and Malta, in Spain and Portugal, in Africa and the Middle East.


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However, one of the largest concentrations 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 and Novorossiysk to Abkhazia.

The width of this strip towards Novorossiysk is 75 km and in this territory, at the moment, archaeologists have found about 3000 dolmens (out of 9000 known all over the world!).

Archaeological excavations in the Caucasus continue; 100 dolmens have been found in the Gelendzhik region alone. More than 40 of them are located in the Pshada-Mikhailovsky Pass area. The walls of the largest Krasnodar region The Pshad dolmen reaches a length of up to 4 meters.

The material from which the dolmens were made varied depending on the area: in Denmark and Britain - granite blocks; in central and southern France, in Holland and Spain - limestone.


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But do you know what unites all the dolmens in the world? Absolutely all stone monoliths are located near the sea or ocean coast.

Dolmens “tell” people where it’s safe

Scientists who have studied many ancient dolmens note that the multi-ton slabs from which the monoliths were made were almost untreated on the outside. Only sometimes the slabs are decorated with ornaments. But on the inside, forming the walls of the chamber, they are almost always carefully leveled, sometimes almost polished.

In 2006, St. Petersburg researchers made a sensational discovery during excavations of a dolmen in the village of Dzhubga.

On a stone block, scientists discovered a petroglyph with images of animals and humans. This is the first time such a discovery has been made in Russian archaeology. Most likely, the images are an illustration of an ancient mythological story, the heroes of which were a man, a deer, a dog and other animals.

What’s interesting is that strange things happen around the places where dolmens stand, alone or in groups.

For example, soils around the monolith float, landslides occur, and mudflows sweep through, but researchers have never recorded any disturbances from these “heroic huts.” Even if the edge of the landslide is located only ten meters from the dolmen.

In addition, destroyed parts of dolmens have never been found at the sites of ancient landslides. This fantastic forecast for thousands of years to come is truly amazing!

Scientists and ordinary travelers who have visited places of mass concentration of dolmens (for example, in the Gelendzhik area), They celebrate a special state of mind when being close to ancient buildings.

Instead of worries, peace comes in the heart, some people suddenly come to mind with the right solutions to problems that have been tormenting them for a long time. Someone claims that the dolmen “cured” him from a long-standing illness.

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The ubiquity and commonality of architectural compositions of megaliths around the world gives scientists and researchers a startling guess that they were built by the ancestors of humanity, when there was a single people on earth.

Most dolmens are found in deserted and barren places, along the seashores. At one time there was a hypothesis that these monuments were left by people spreading from Asia, through northern Africa, to the Iberian Peninsula and further to France, Germany and Denmark, but this hypothesis is contradicted by the fact that the northern dolmens (Danish or British) By all indications, they belong to a more ancient era than the southern ones.

According to another hypothesis, dolmens are direct evidence of the existence of the legendary Atlantis. They are looking for Atlantis either in the Mediterranean Sea, then in the Atlantic, or in the Black Sea. But these points always somehow coincide with the areas where dolmens are distributed.

Dolmens change the properties of objects

The first studies of dolmens concerned the X-ray radiation around the dolmens. The research results showed that the radiation background of the dolmens themselves does not differ much from the background of the area itself. Since more than 75 percent of megaliths are located at fault sites in the earth’s crust, as a result, the radiation background is slightly increased.

As for the radiation from the dolmens themselves, here scientists came to a consensus - everything was clean, the instruments did not register anything.

However, times change, technology develops, latest research showed that when a person enters the field of a dolmen, the wave characteristics are still recorded.

In addition, the experiments carried out with products they showed that after they are in dolmens or nearby, their organoleptic properties change. The water in the ampoule, which visited the dolmen chamber, was different from its fellows in the box, which did not approach the dolmen. The yeast that had been in the dolmen was not suitable for baking bread, and the products changed their taste properties.

If dolmens affect water, it is logical to assume that the changes also affect humans.

By analogy, scientists cite as an example the strange “properties” of a cave in Eastern Europe, where scientists conducted research in the 80s. She enjoyed a bad reputation among local residents. At first, scientists installed equipment in the cave and recorded absolutely nothing.

But as soon as a person entered the cave, the instruments went off scale. Most likely, dolmens somehow “respond” to the presence of a person nearby.

From a physics point of view, a dolmen most closely resembles a model of an emitter; the dolmen’s material is quartz sandstone, a mineral with very interesting properties, in particular, the ability to generate electric current under compression (piezoelectric effect), as well as maintain constant oscillations (frequency stabilization).

This is the basis for its use in radio engineering. When exposed to electric current, quartz crystals generate ultrasound (reverse piezoelectric effect). It has also been established that under mechanical deformation, quartz is capable of generating radio waves.

Faults in the earth's crust, near which dolmens are located, under certain conditions can play the role of waveguides; the dolmens themselves can then serve as both receivers and emitters.

Some specialists - scientists, led by academician of archeology V.I. Morkovin, agree that dolmens are not burial grounds, but technical devices of an ancient, previous earthly civilization.

The construction sites of dolmens turned out to correspond to the recently discovered energy grid of our planet.

The quartz components of the sandstone slabs have piezoelectric properties, the shape of the dolmens meets the requirements of a wave box; It has been established that dolmens are now capable of generating ultrasound.

Dolmen influences people, but does not succumb to their will

Doubting scientists conducted studies on changes in the composition of the blood of people who were in the dolmen field. It turned out that over a short period of time a person’s blood glucose level increases. And measuring the pressure showed that it was normalizing in the dolmen field.

Moreover, some quite modern and educated people are sure that dolmens have healing properties.

To gain health, they say, you can rub its wall with your palm. Or you can climb onto the roof of the structure. In the Gelendzhik region there is a legend about a certain St. Petersburg doctor, who is confident that even... a photograph of a dolmen can heal a person’s physical health.

However, what is more here - real facts or fantasies about the omnipotence of ancient megaliths, each person decides for himself.

Speaking about the mysterious properties of dolmens, one cannot fail to mention interesting story which occurred during the USSR.

In 1960, a dolmen from Esheri was transported to the courtyard of the Sukhumi Museum; archaeologist Alexander Aleksandrovich Formozov described it in his book “Monuments of Primitive Art on the Territory of the USSR.”

They decided to move the dolmen, apparently, so that excursionists would not have to travel somewhere far to look at the unique Caucasian megaliths.

The smallest and lightest megalith was chosen for transportation and brought to it crane. However, all efforts to raise the dolmen were in vain.

“No matter how we fastened the loops of the steel cable to the cover plate,” says Formozov, “it did not budge.

The second tap was called. Two cranes removed the multi-ton monolith, but they were unable to lift it onto a truck. For exactly a year the roof lay in Esheri, waiting for a more powerful mechanism to arrive in Sukhumi.”

In 1961, with the help of this mechanism, all the stones were finally loaded onto vehicles.

But the main thing was ahead - reassemble the house. They released the roof onto four walls, but they couldn’t turn it around so that their edges would fit into the grooves on the inner surface of the roof.”

The fact is that dolmens are not just four walls, a floor and a ceiling. These are a kind of “puzzles”: in their side walls there are special grooves into which the projections made in the rear and front walls ideally fit; There are the same grooves in the roof, which is “put on” on top of the walls.

“In ancient times, the slabs were fitted so close to each other that the blade could not fit between them. Now there is a big gap left,” the archaeologist recalled.

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Riddles without answers

Despite many years of research and an abundance of hypotheses, the mystery of the dolmens still remains unsolved. Many theories, both scientific and alternative, often contradict each other and do not reveal mysterious origin these ancient giants. Will we ever be able to solve this thousand-year-old mystery and understand the purpose of dolmens?

1. Who built the dolmens? According to archaeological data, the standard of living of the inhabitants of the area where dolmens were discovered 8-10 thousand years ago was very primitive. They were not yet familiar with the plow and the potter's wheel; hoe farming and the production of copper products were emerging among them. So how could they manually build these “heroic huts” without the help of complex mechanisms?

2. What is the purpose of dolmens? Archaeologists have found that in the Bronze Age and later they were often used for burial. At a later time, they began to bury in the ground in stone boxes made of thinner slabs and pour mounds of earth on top. Were these people the builders of the dolmens themselves?

One of the versions is described in V. Maigret’s book “Anastasia”: the best representatives of civilization went to die in dolmens, meditating, in order to remain in the spirit forever on Earth and preserve the knowledge they needed for their descendants.

3. Like people, being many thousands of kilometers away from each other, without having vehicles and connections, could similar buildings be built almost simultaneously?

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"Journey to the Dolmens"

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

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

16th century. A thorough study of the dolmens of the Caucasus.

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

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

1912 Painstaking study of dolmens by archaeologists and other scientists. Excavations turned up a lot of things: ceramic fragments, flint axes, amber beads. 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: in the whole of China, for example, there are less than a thousand, and in Korea there are more than thirty thousand.

How does a dolmen work? Types of dolmens

Tiled. Makes up more than 90% of all dolmens. Six slabs 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 a building; it is often located at the back or side.
Composite. Made from blocks. The simplest design is a large stone placed on top of another in the shape of the letter P.
Semi-monolithic, or trough-shaped. A depression was made in the stones from the rocks and covered with a slab.
Monolithic. It was located directly in the rock.

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

Another type of dolmen with a mound. It was built at ground level, and a mound was built above 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 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.

Purpose of dolmens does not cause controversy among scientists. Archaeological excavations have repeatedly confirmed that dolmens were a kind of burial place.

How were ancient dolmens built?

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

Dolmens in Russia

There are about two thousand dolmens. Mainly in the Caucasus region. Resort towns Sochi, Tuapse, Gelendzhik, Novorossiysk can boast of the presence of these mysterious buildings. The dolmens of the Western Caucasus were 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 examined the homes of dolmen builders. Markovin believed that these people were not familiar with either iron or pottery. The main tool for farming was the hoe, and they had not even heard of the plow. Other scientists also wonder how such structures were created without special tools. According to historians, there used to be about thirty thousand dolmens in the Caucasus. But as a result of wars they were destroyed.

There are also burial grounds of this kind in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic. They differ in that the slabs in them are conscientiously aligned. In Russia, dolmens are not protected, which is why some people want to get some benefit from them. The destruction of dolmens occurs thanks to forestry workers, sectarians, black diggers, tourists, businessmen and many others.

Questions still unresolved:

The average weight of a slab 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 builders achieve perfect alignment of the slabs with each other?
How were ornaments and designs made on stone?
What civilization do these buildings belong to?

Dolmens are one of the most amazing secrets planets. Huge stone structures impeccable geometric shape, built thousands of years ago - who created them and why? Why did ancient people need to make enormous efforts to cut down, complexly transport, process the strongest blocks and install them in a strict order with incredible precision? There is no answer to these questions yet.

Dolmens are ancient megalithic (from the Greek “mega” - huge, “cast” - stone) structures of a certain shape. In the simplest version, these are three stones placed in the shape of the letter P. The origin of the word “dolmen” is associated with a historical misconception: the French archaeologist Woden, who did not know the true age of the structures, attributed them to the Celts (in the Celtic dialect “dol” means table, “tep” - stone). In reality, the dolmens are much older: from 8000 BC. in India before 1400 BC. in the Caucasus. Although the dating is imprecise, and scientists suggest that the buildings may be even older. The Megrelians called dolmens “odzvale”, “sadzvale” (containers of bones), as well as “mdishkude” (houses of giants), the Abkhazians called them “adamra” (ancient burial houses). Dolmens can be seen in England, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Africa and even in India and Korea; there are many well-preserved dolmens in Russia and the North Caucasus.

The Adyghe people used the word “ispyun” (“ispun”, “spyun”) to designate them, which means “house of the dwarf”. According to legend, in ancient times tribes of dwarfs and giants lived in the mountains. Small and weak dwarfs were not able to build their own homes to shelter from the weather. The giants, looking at how hard their lives were, felt sorry for their tiny neighbors. Each giant easily broke out a stone slab in the mountains and, putting it on his shoulders, carried it to the construction site. Instead of doors, a hole in the shape of a rectangle or arch was punched in the front slab. Through them, the dwarfs allegedly rode into the “house” on hares.

This is just one of many legends regarding the origin and construction of dolmens. What was the real method of their construction and purpose - scientists can only guess.

Burials have been found in many dolmens: ancient bones, household items, arrowheads, amber beads, flint axes, shards of pottery. All these finds belong to different historical eras, from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages, so it is difficult to determine the exact period of origin of the dolmens. But the version about using them for ritual purposes found many supporters. It is supported by the fact that sometimes builders imitated the entrance using fake plugs, while the real one was on the other side. This looks a lot like an attempt to protect graves from desecration. And if this is so, then it is quite understandable why the entrances are oriented to the cardinal points - this is how ancient people performed religious rites associated with the cult of the dead. However, many modern researchers say that they began to arrange burials in dolmens much later, when the original purpose of the mysterious structures had already been forgotten.

Sometimes on the roofs of dolmens there are round platforms with sides along the edges that cast a shadow in clear weather. It is possible that in this way the priests observed the Sun and compiled a calendar. Or maybe these heavy stone buildings served as a kind of symbol of the power of the people, such as temples or tombs?

There are a lot of assumptions about how the dolmen builders moved the stone masses. Some researchers are convinced that the dolmens were assembled from erratic boulders transported by glaciers over considerable distances. The builders rolled natural blocks over wooden rollers using leather belts, and made a mound of sand and clay to install the top slab. Perhaps a certain number of dolmens could have been collected in this way. But it is very doubtful that the last ice age left our ancestors with hundreds of thousands of identical plates measuring 2x3 meters. Most likely, the builders extracted material from quarries. According to researcher Yu.N. Voronov, “the breaking of the slabs was carried out using wooden pegs driven into holes hollowed out along the contour. The pegs were watered: as they swelled, they broke off slabs of the required size.” Despite the popularity of this version, it remains unclear where the traces of holes and chips that should have remained from the work went.

Trying to solve this mystery, scientists conducted an experiment to build a dolmen. The experiment showed that not so many people were required to erect a stone structure; they also needed the ability to use simple tools. But then why weren’t other buildings erected in this way? Why were dolmens needed in such quantities?

The experimenters themselves believe that everything is quite trivial: dolmens were used to store food and weapons. Unfortunately, this hypothesis is weak - the dolmens are located too far from the supposed settlement sites. But every year scientists receive more and more reliable information, which will one day allow them to solve the riddle of the Dolmens.

These mysterious stone structures are found throughout Eurasia - from Spain to Korea. The most ancient of them appeared earlier than 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, these ancient megaliths were first discovered by scientists, studied and described in Brittany. This hypothesis is not without foundation. Indeed, Western European dolmens, most often represented by roughly processed stone slabs, the largest of which - horizontal - are placed on two or three smaller ones, placed 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 slabs are the walls, the fifth is the roof, and the sixth (not always the case) is the floor. There is a round hole on the front wall of the dolmen. It could be closed with a stone plug shaped like a mushroom.

The average dimensions of Caucasian dolmens are 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 extend forward to form a portal over the front slab with an opening. The rear wall may be lower than the front, and then the roof slopes back. All parts of the dolmen are carefully processed and adjusted 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 Mediterranean countries, in Corsica and Malta, as well as in India, Palestine, North Korea... But most of the 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 in the Gelendzhik region alone.

It has been established that the age of the oldest 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 greater magical power they have. One gets the impression that they were erected by some ancient highly developed civilization, and subsequent dolmens, built in the 11th-1st millennia BC and later, are only a cruder imitation of ancient models.

Adyghe people call Caucasian dolmens “syrpun”, which means “houses of dwarfs”. Ossetians have a legend about a people of dwarfs - the Bitsenta, who are endowed with supernatural traits. For example, the bicenta is capable of felling a large tree with one glance. He is also able to lift and move huge blocks of stone with the power of his gaze. And these people live in the sea. Ossetians claim that the ancestors of the Caucasian peoples - the Narts - also came out of the sea and gave people culture. The Cossacks call dolmens “heroic huts.” There is another original version of the origin of this name - “changer of share”. And it is also not without reason, which will be discussed below.

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

Purpose of dolmens

There are several versions of the purpose of dolmens.

Version 1. Dolmens are part of a single world structure, which also includes other megaliths and Egyptian pyramids. The locations of the dolmens were not chosen by chance. They act as 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 unified perception of the world. The wisest man of the tribe went into the dolmen, after which he was closed with a stone stopper for a certain time. While in the dolmen, a person received Vedic knowledge, and the megalith itself absorbed the knowledge of his tribe and clan. And now our contemporary, who has extrasensory abilities, can obtain this information. Having tuned in to the desired wave with the help of meditation, he is able to literally change his lot, that is, his destiny.

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 perfectly suited to the role of storing the body.

Version 4. Dolmens are tombs used for burial by many peoples. Leaders, sages, shamans, that is, the most honored members of society, were buried in them. At the same time, they performed some mystical rituals. 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 jewelry that are made using an unknown technology 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, which is quite hard and difficult to process. And quartz is a mineral that has 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 capable of generating electric current, as well as stabilizing the frequency, maintaining constant oscillations. In addition, under mechanical stress, quartz can emit radio waves. Most dolmens are located in seismically active zones of faults in the earth’s crust, which at a certain moment can serve as waveguides, and the structures themselves can become receivers and transmitters. Such an activated dolmen is capable of capturing the radiation of a person inside it and converting it into ultrasonic vibrations, and then transmitting them along waveguide faults to other dolmens. If there are people there who are tuned 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 advanced, because the transfer of information occurred instantly, at the subconscious level, and instead of digital packages and files, mental and visual images were transmitted. In addition, according to supporters of this theory, dolmens could also serve as a database in which the knowledge and wisdom of the ancients was 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 to inaccessible places. mountainous areas multi-ton stone blocks. But if we assume that these “houses” were not built by Neanderthals at all, but by the powerful Aryan (Vedic) or Atlantic civilizations, they had enough knowledge and technology to create a worldwide information network by installing receivers and 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 were destroyed as a result of wars and natural disasters. And in our time, their destruction continues by modern humanity, which has lost respect for ancient shrines.

By the way, the dolmen builders did not have to move the stone blocks at all. It was possible to make formwork, pour in concrete interspersed with quartz - and the structure was ready without any extra effort. By the way, traces of such formwork were imprinted on some dolmen walls. And applying images to unhardened concrete is much easier than chiseling hard 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 the same purpose of maintaining the global information network.

What do historians say about dolmens? We addressed this question to ancient history, captured in the sailing directions of ancient Greek sailors. And this is what we dug up in them.
A long time ago, the land in these places was covered with thick fogs. High bare rocks interspersed with deep crevices. Plumes of smoke and gas burst out from the underground depths. The earth was breathing. At the foot of the rocks the waves of a deep salt lake splashed.
Small, angry pygmies came here from the cold valley in search of warmth. During the day they climbed high mountains, and at night they climbed into deep caves. It was warm underground there, and most importantly, hot golden rivers flowed. Bird eggs could be boiled in molten gold and eaten on them.
Life in the underground delayed the development of this people. They were small, black, cruel and very bloodthirsty. This people had a hard life. One day they saw white giants. They were kind and hardworking creatures. They were constantly building something. They looked at the little pygmies, how they shivered from the cold in the cold, how the hot sun scorched them, and took pity on them. The giants built huge stone houses and allowed the dwarfs to live in them. The houses were so large that the dwarfs could not even get into them. Then the giants taught the dwarfs to tame hares. The dwarfs sat on the hares and forced them to jump into the houses through a small hole.
This is the only information about dolmens that comes from time immemorial. They cast a magical fog over strange structures, through which it is almost impossible to see either time, much less the builders themselves. Who were these mysterious giants - the builders of dolmens?
Gradually the lake rose and turned into a huge sea. It connected with the Mediterranean Bosporus Strait. The highly developed civilization of the ancient Greeks set out to find new lands.
For a long time, the ships of the Argonauts, the first navigators, crashed on the wandering rocks of Plankta, which were located at the exit from the Bosporus to the Black Sea. One day, a wise captain took a soothsayer named Phineus on his ship. He sent a dove ahead of the ship. The bird flew between the rocks. They dispersed, stopped in place and never closed again.
Since then, the history of the Black Sea coast began to be written. “A disastrous place, completely covered with fog. Huge black birds are found here - griffins, capable of pecking at a person; Amazon women who kill any man who sets foot on the shore; barbarian tribes live in the rocks. They sacrifice any stranger to their gods or eat them, and the skulls serve as cups for them,” this is how the civilized Greeks described the Black Sea coast. “A place near the underworld,” they said.

However, despite all the difficulties, ancient researchers discovered that in those places where high rocks were not yet covered with vegetation, frozen rivers of real gold could be seen right in the crevices. The gold rush filled the sails of the desperate Greeks. The Odyssey describes the extraordinary dangers that accompany sailors. Cyclops, sorcerers, sea passions - all this was here, on the shores of the Black, inhospitable Sea.
We had to fight with local tribes - pygmies, who desperately defended their possessions. After all, golden rivers are the only source of heat in the deep underground; it was the source of their life. The Greeks called the pygmies “Keepers of Gold”.
The territory from Sochi to Novorossiysk was not conquered for a long time. It was an ominous place; it brought only death and misfortune.
Gradually the rocks became covered with sand, earth and vegetation. The golden rivers have cooled down. And the pygmies disappeared into oblivion. Maybe they live somewhere deep underground and guard their wealth, or maybe they have learned to survive on the surface of the earth. Greek written sources say that for a long time wild tribes of barbarians lived here, first cannibals, then sea pirates, and later slave traders. They worshiped their gods by sacrificing people. Highly developed peoples did not like these places.
Hordes of Scythians wandered past, entered into battles with barbarians, but no one managed to penetrate the terrible, hermitic world of savages.
The bloodthirsty spirit of the ancient tribes disappeared and scattered across the earth and left behind strange monuments.
Not a single ancient Greek written source, replete with fantastic details about Black Sea coast, does not talk about dolmens. As if there were no stone structures here before and during the Greek colonization.

Scientists believe that the construction of dolmens took place in the era from 2400 to 1300 BC. e. in the Bronze Age. In those days, the Zigs, Achaeans, and Geniokhs emerged. These warlike tribes, following their more ancient ancestors, engaged in piracy. They captured people and turned them into slaves. Later the Geniokhs became slave traders. On the sea coast Tuapse For a long time there was one of the largest slave markets. In the 4th century BC. e. one of the kings of Bosporus, Eumenes, entered into a war with the Heniochs and cleared the sea of pirates.
The name “dolmen” itself comes from the Celtic words tol - table, men - stone: stone table. In northern European countries, having massive ceilings, they resemble huge tables. Already by the middle of the 19th century, in scientific works the word “dolmen” was assigned to the ancient buildings of the Western Caucasus, while the local population still continues to call them differently. Among the Adygeis and Abkhazians these are “ispun” and “spyun” (houses of dwarfs, caves), among the Mingrelians - “keunezh” (houses of giants), the Cossack population calls them “heroic huts”.

The moment of discovery and the first mentions of dolmens in scientific sources belong to an academician (Imperial Academy of Sciences) Peter Simon Pallas. When he first saw dolmens, he compared these structures to tombs, without yet thinking about their true purpose. This was in 1794.
Traveling around Taman Peninsula, at dusk he saw stone buildings that looked like tombs and described them. Other explorations were made in 1818 by Tebout de Marigny in the area of the Pshada River. Pshad dolmens were also described James Bell. After these studies, all sorts of speculations and theories were born.
Interest in dolmens increased every year. These shrines seem to fascinate a person, and their unusual shape forces them to constantly unravel the mysterious affiliation.

Systematization of the dolmens of the Caucasus was carried out L. I. Lavrov. His work indicates 1139 buildings (1960).
From 1967 to 1976, the Institute of Archeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences created a special detachment to study dolmens under the leadership of Vladimir Ivanovich Markovin. Has been researched huge amount buildings In carefully recorded documents, there are 2308 dolmens. Markovin shares his impressions “... when the dolmens began to line up before my eyes not as light houses of cards, but as massive stacks of slabs and stones, towering above my personal dimensions, then even at night, alone with my thoughts, I could not get away from the impression of their stunning grandeur. Their silent combination with the huge trees and majestic mountain distances seemed eerie.
No traces have been found showing the prehistory of the emergence, development and complication of the design features of megaliths. Dolmens remain one of the most mysterious types of archaeological sites, as scientists note. The enormous range of their distribution in time and space makes it difficult to reconstruct a complete picture.

On at the moment the hypothesis that dolmens are ancient Adyghe burials was rejected, otherwise they would not have existed, for example, in India. The theory of funerary tombs for leaders or priests has undergone serious criticism, since not enough material evidence has been found.
We have to believe that the principle and form of dolmens were given by someone once and for all. There are dolmens in some places all over the world. They maintain basic size relationships, despite the fact that they are located very far from each other.
It was assumed that the dolmens were built in 2 - 3 thousand BC. e. in the Bronze Age as tombs for noble and important people. However, no sufficient evidence has been found that the dolmens were truly stone burials. Skeletons of people were found in some dolmens, but they were either in a sitting or crouched position. This suggests that people could be hiding in a dolmen from serious danger and suddenly die. In others, dismembered and neatly arranged human bones were found. Perhaps they were carefully placed by the surviving tribesmen after a massacre or an epidemic of disease.
After the formation of the Center, a group of our researchers collected considerable material from personal intuitive research and testimonies of local residents who experienced the influence of dolmens.
Very interesting conclusions were made, confirming the initial presence of serious scientific and technical knowledge among the dolmen builders.
Dolmens capture waves and atmospheric vibrations, amplify them and distribute them into the surrounding space in such a way that the human brain is able to distinguish the sent information. Well versed in the technical intricacies of stone tools, ancient people used dolmens for various purposes. For example, by placing a dolmen with a hole in a valley, river or just a body of water, they forced it to influence the enemy’s psyche, causing mortal horror, anxiety and a desire to move away from it as quickly as possible. strange place. This arrangement of dolmens is just as dangerous now.
Ukrainian scientists have done very serious research on dolmens Furduy And Shvaidak. It is known that dolmens were built exclusively from quartz- and granite-containing rocks (granitoids, sandstones). Quartz SiO2 generates electric current and maintains constant oscillations (frequency stabilization). This property is used in radio engineering. When exposed to electric current, quartz crystals generate ultrasound. When mechanically deformed, quartz is capable of generating radio waves.
There are large, medium and smaller dolmens. The resonant frequency of such cameras is 23, 16 and 35 Hz.
Such frequencies are located at the lower threshold of human audibility, adjacent to the infrasound range. Such acoustic vibrations have an adverse effect. For example, ultrasound from 15 to 40 Hz causes the sensation of “gimlets” drilling into the skin. A powerful ultrasound beam on the brain of animals causes physical depression and turns off the irradiated areas of the brain.
Exposure of the human brain to low-frequency vibrations with a frequency of 13–25 Hz leads to resonance of various internal organs. Exposure to a frequency of 25 Hz for 30 minutes causes an epileptic seizure.
The resonant frequency of most Caucasian dolmens is close to this value. It is also known that exposure to low-frequency vibrations close to the natural frequencies of human organs, in particular the heart (6 – 12 Hz) can be harmful and even fatal.

It is assumed that dolmens were at one time a multifunctional tool. They not only generated ultrasound, but also emitted it directionally in the form of a beam (spotlight effect), as evidenced by design features dolmens They are a bell that expands in the direction from the back wall to the front. An important element in the design of dolmens is the hole in their front wall - the “manhole”. It is located on the center line of the front wall at a certain height from the floor. The hole diameter is most often 40 cm.
The holes in the dolmens were closed with special stone bushings - plugs. Their shape is similar to ultrasonic emitters used in modern technology to focus ultrasonic flow.
A dolmen installed in some strategically important place (gorge, pass) as a combat installation and “launched” at the right frequency at the right moment did not allow enemies to pass, causing them the feeling of “drilling gimlets”, or even loss of consciousness and death .

In France, women specially spent nights at megaliths in order to recover from infertility, beg for a happy marriage, and so on. On the back wall of one of the French dolmens there is a relief in the form of a stylized human figure consisting of parallel lines. Some of these lines resemble human acupuncture lines known to acupuncturists. But most of the lines go far beyond the contours of a person’s body and rather resemble the lines of his aura. The heart and lower part of the spine, that is, the energetically most important organs, are especially highlighted in the relief. The drawing is drawn upside down.
Dolmens were used for psychogenic effects on humans. By tuning the dolmen to a certain frequency, it was possible to ensure that a person (priest) entered a special state of trance and began to utter prophecies, just as the ancient Greek oracles or Eskimo shamans did.
It is believed that the dolmens were used for technological purposes, for example, for ultrasonic welding of jewelry, in particular, Celtic and Scythian jewelry, made, as experts suspect, using a completely incomprehensible technology for attaching small parts to a base, reminiscent of high-frequency or ultrasonic welding.
Western Caucasian dolmens, as Furduy and Shvaidak suggested, were installed in a seismic manner dangerous areas, along zones of active geological faults. As we already know, these scientists were almost at the truth, they approached the innermost secret of dolmens and went further, revealing another important function of them - signaling an approaching earthquake. It is known that before a strong earthquake, the stresses in the blocks increase rocks, small tremors occur. The dolmen could pick up this sound and began to “buzz”, warning the priest and the population about upcoming events.
Research has shown that dolmens North Caucasus for the most part have an adverse effect on humans. Their vibrations have a destructive effect on the psyche and body, so it is necessary to communicate with them with extreme caution.
Dolmens were built all over the world: from Japan to the Iberian Peninsula, from India to the Caucasus and from North Africa to the northern regions of Western Europe. Similar monuments are known in South America- Peru, Bolivia. IN Western Europe- in England, France, Germany. On the islands of the Mediterranean Sea - Corsica, Sardinia, Balearic Islands, in Malta and on the island of Mallorca. They were found in England (the famous Stonehenge), in France, in Germany, in Spain, even in Africa. The shape of dolmens is different. These are simple high-standing stones, pointed upward in the shape of a pencil (menhirs), and two high-standing stones with a crossbar on top.
On a small Pacific Island Malekula, part of the New Hebrides archipelago, a few decades ago local residents erected dolmens and menhirs, reminiscent of those that were built all over the world millennia ago. These dolmens were shrines for all the islanders. It was believed that the leader of a secret religious union on the island on certain days listened to the voice of the spirit of the great ancestors here and asked him for advice. At certain times of the day, the stone megalith emits a strong ultrasonic sound, drowning out the squeaks of bats.
Before sunrise, the stone monument emits ultrasonic pulses that die down shortly after sunrise. Ultrasonic radiation is most intense and lasting during the equinoxes, and minimal during the solstices. The individual stones that make up the structure have different sound cycles.

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