What is "megalithic"

Usage examples of "megalithic".

There rose a megalithic wall, bedight with sculptured reliefs in riotous profusion.

Imbri protested, her dreamlet showing herself as a mare bonking headfirst into a megalithic column and coming to a bonejarring stop.

It may seem that the whole problem of the megaliths could more realistically be solved by assuming the possession of a high technology capable of dealing with all the aspects of megalithic construction.

There are also many physical remains which point to a different state of affairs - the Pyramids, Stonehenge and the other megaliths, the megalithic walls of Peru, and, at the other end of the scale, minute artifacts which do not seem to have been capable of manufacture without the aid of sophisticated techniques.

It also means that, in a time when there was no numeracy or literacy, an intellectual elite existed within the stone age communities and, somehow, gleaned the knowledge to measure the megalithic yard and to chart planetary movements.

Clinging to the mast of this magic cherry tree was an abundance of equally inadmissible mistletoe, sacred since the dawn of time, when the Druids used to harvest it with silver sickles before going on to perform solstitial rites of memorable beastliness at megalithic sites all over Europe.

We have also argued, on the basis of a combination of geological, architectural and archaeoastronomical indicators, that the Great Sphinx, its associated megalithic ‘temples’, and at least the lower courses of the so-called ‘Pyramid of Khafre’, may in fact have been built at that exceedingly remote date.

One fragment became the Megalithics, another the Kingdom of Meluhha, yet others Egypt, Makan, Ubaid, and Dilmun.

Dan-Legeh was a bizarre megalithic structure, whose towering walls were strangely reminiscent of the ancient ruins that haunted the desolate regions of the island.