Corbelled tomb

A corbelled tomb is a generic term given to burial tombs with corbelled roofs rather than simple slabs, which generally denote an earlier type of construction.

Geographic distribution

Corbelled tombs are widely distributed throughout Europe and the Middle East.

In Europe they include the Mycenean tholos tomb type. There is an example at Tsepi, in Attica, near Marathon, Greece.[1] There is also a corbelled tomb in Ile Longue, in France, one of four distinct types used the Breton megalithic tombs.[2] At Collorgues in the southern French department of Gard, in the Pyrenees, and in Andalusia, corbelled tombs are all associated with the Beaker pottery culture.[3] Perhaps the "finest example is the corbelled tomb at New Grange," in Ireland.[4] Beaker pottery has been found in or associated with corbelled tombs from southern Portugal and Spain to Normandy in northern France, and more controversially, to Scotland.[5]

In Abu Dhabi, a corbelled tomb (labeled 1303) was broken into and later re-used.[6] A corbelled tomb was discovered in 1976 in Al Hisn (in southeastern Arabia), but was not excavated until the 21st century.[7] The South Dahshur Pyramid, built during the 12th Dynasty in Egypt, unusually has two corbelled tomb chambers, two corbelled antechambers, and two entrances.[8] Rectangular corbelled tombs are one of five different funerary structures at Wisād Pools, in Jordan.[9] (The Wisād pools of Jordan are best known as the site of petroglyphs of the Addax and Lesser kudu, which is an interesting juxtaposition.[10])

See also

References

  1. ^ Poursat, Jean-Claude (2022). The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age: A History. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108571197. Retrieved July 25, 2025.
  2. ^ The Corridors of Time, Volume 6. Yale University Press. 1929. pp. 88–89. Retrieved July 25, 2025.
  3. ^ The Corridors of Time, Volume 6. Yale University Press. 1929. pp. 78–80. Retrieved July 25, 2025.
  4. ^ The Corridors of Time, Volume 6. Yale University Press. 1929. p. 116. Retrieved July 25, 2025.
  5. ^ Childe, V. Gordon (2014). The Prehistory Of Scotland. Taylor & Francis. pp. 74–76. ISBN 9781317606482. Retrieved July 25, 2025. There are, therefore, some explicit indications of connections, between the "Neolithic" culture of Scotland and Ireland, and that illustrated in the collective tombs of Almeria and Portugal.... Such an account is open to grave objections.(page 75, pun in original text)
  6. ^ Madsen, Bo (2018). The Early Bronze Age Tombs of Jebel Hafit: Danish Archaeological Investigations in Abu Dhabi 1961-1971. Aarhus University Press. p. 131. ISBN 9788793423244. Retrieved July 25, 2025.
  7. ^ Yule, Paul A.; Mauro, Fausto (2025). At the Dawn of History: The Late Pre-Islamic Age in South-Eastern Arabia. Archeopress. p. 57. ISBN 9781803279947. Retrieved July 25, 2025.
  8. ^ Parry, Dick (2005). Engineering the Pyramids. ISBN 9780752495132. Retrieved July 25, 2025.
  9. ^ Repper, Rebecca; Bishop, M.C.; Bewley, Robert (2025). Reframing the “Desert Frontier”: Studies in the Ancient Near East and Northern Arabia in Honour of David Kennedy. Sydney University Press. pp. 441–443. ISBN 9781743329962. Retrieved July 25, 2025.
  10. ^ Hill, A. C., Rowan, Y. M., Wasse, A., & Rollefson, G. O. (2020). Inscribed landscapes in the black desert: Petroglyphs and kites at wisad pools, Jordan. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 31(2), 245-262.
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