Rmíz: The oldest stone wall.

Added March 1998. Updated February 14, 2006.

Rmíz: The oldest stone wall

Dr. Miroslav Smíd has excavated portions of the oldest stone faced rampart in Central/Northern Europe. Made of drywall-like, occasionally nearly megalithic stone slabs, the wall delineates ca. 9 ha. in the north of the hilltop fort Rmíz, Czech Republic (1998 SAA Abstract, Figures). The site was built in the Funnel Beaker Culture's Baalberge phase (perhaps 3800/3700 cal. BC, but no radiocarbon dates are currently available). This phase belongs to the Moravian Copper Age, equivalent to the North European Early Neolithic.

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