Standing stones

Image caption: Dolmen at the Muree'at site in Jordan. Credit: Susanne Kerner, University of Copenhagen.

5,500-year-old ritual site uncovered in Jordan: dolmens, standing stones and megalithic structures

University of Copenhagen excavations at Mariyat reveal Early Bronze Age ceremonial landscape—a clue to how communities coped with climatic and social changes after the decline of Chalcolithic culture