Chamber Tomb - Types and Examples

Types and Examples

General terms:

Chambered cairn
Chambered long barrow

Cromlechs, dolmens and Hunebedden
- Simple dolmen
- Great dolmen
- Polygonal dolmen
- Rectangular dolmen

Corbelled tomb
Chamber tumulus

Gallery grave including:
- Allées couvertes
- Court cairn
- Giants' grave
- Naveta
- the Peak District tomb group
- Severn-Cotswold or Cotswold-Severn tomb
- Transepted gallery grave
- Wedge-shaped gallery grave

Entrance grave such as
- Portal dolmen
- Scillonian entrance grave

Passage grave including:
- The tholos tombs of Mycenaean Greece.
- Mycenaean chamber tomb
- V-shaped passage grave
- Cruciform passage grave
- Clava cairn

Other types:
- Domus de Janas
- Dysser
- Medway tomb
- Shaft and chamber tomb

Prehistoric technology

Outline of prehistoric technology
History of technology

Architectural

Ceremonial structures	Earliest religious structure Kiva Pyramid Temple

Dwellings	Neolithic architecture Burdei Cave Cliff dwelling Dugout Great house Hut Jacal Lean-to Longhouse Pit-house Pueblitos Pueblo Rock shelter Roundhouse Stilt house Tent

Water management	Check dam Cistern Reservoir Water well

Other	Archaeological features Burnt mound Causewayed enclosure Henge Megalithic architectural elements Midden

Tools

Farming	Neolithic Revolution Ard / plough Celt Digging stick Domestication Goad Irrigation Sickle Terracing

Food processing	Fire Basket Granaries Grinding slab Ground stone Hearth Manos Metate Mortar and pestle Pottery Quern-stone Storage pit

Hunting	Arrow Atlatl Bow and arrow Dart Projectile point Snare trap Spear

Toolmaking	Earliest toolmaking Biface Cupstone Hafting Hand axe Lithic core Lithic reduction Prepared-core technique Striking platform Tool stone

Other tools	Adze Awl Axe Blade Bone tool Bow drill Burin Chopper Cleaver Denticulate tool Hammerstone Hand axe Knife Quern-stone Rope Scraper Stone tool Weapons Wheel Ancient maritime history

Arts and culture

Material goods	Basket weaving Beadwork Chalcolithic Clothing Clothing and textiles Hides Pottery Weaving

Prehistoric art	Earliest art Cairn Cave painting Geoglyph Ideograms List of prehistoric artworks Megalithic art Petroform Petroglyph Petrosomatoglyph Pictogram Rock art Stone circle

Burial	Burial mounds Chamber tomb Cist Cremation Dolmen Funeral pyre Grave Jar burial Megalithic tomb Mummy Stone box grave

Other cultural	Behavioral modernity Evolutionary origin of religions Music archaeology Prehistoric music

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