At a high level, they explain the introduction of different farming, monument building, the spread of metalworking and patterns of trade and exchange.This paper presents an archaeogenetic model based on a strategic review of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic archaeology of Europe, alongside a review of recently published ancient DNA data. Migrations are much more important than currently recognised, for explaining important patterns observed in the European archaeology record – according to this archaeology led model. The construction, stratigraphy, and funerary offerings indicate that the monument dates to the first half of the 3rd millennium BC and belongs to the early stage of the dolmen culture, sharing standard features with the megalithic architecture of the previous period. The circular recess in the center of the floor flagstone served to secure the wooden pillar. The tomb walls were dug into the ground around the 11-sided floor slab, while a pillar supported the stone plates of the pyramid-shaped roof.

Popova is in the structure of the walls and floor of the tomb. The principal difference between the actual tomb and the published drawings by E. This dolmen and parts of a destroyed 11-sided tomb in kurgan 39 at the burial ground of Klady revealed in about 1989 by A. The paper presents the reconstruction of the architectural features, construction, basic dimensions, building stages, chronological and cultural contexts of the unique multisided dolmen with a pyramidal roof, excavated by Nikolay Kamenev near Tsarskaya (modern Novosvobodnaya), North-Western Caucasus in 1869.

Northwestern shore dolmen