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For one thing, there were menhirs and dolmens all around us.
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Rosanna Warren, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
The menhirs rose straight up, crude towers hacked from granite, taller than our parents.
—Rosanna Warren, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
By 2020, the modern menhir was a fossil in the making.
—Curbed, 24 Jan. 2024
The enormous, 65-ton capstone on top of its chamber is a broken fragment of a menhir, a standing stone, brought from 10 km away.
—Mike Parker Pearson, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2015
And yet four decades after the wrapping came off Philip Johnson and John Burgee’s 550 Madison Avenue to reveal a pink stone menhir with a fancy hat, the tower still radiates a wry, ornery, unmistakably New York personality.
—Curbed, 2 Nov. 2022
The original menhir may be 300 years (or more) older than the tomb.
—Mike Parker Pearson, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2015
Enlarge / Sculpted menhir at the entrance of the corridor leading to the dolmen.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2022
While Castaño suggests a curvy line seen on the menhir refers to the winding route of the nearby Tagus River, archaeologist Primitiva Bueno Ramírez identifies the marking as a snake with a triangular head.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 9 Sep. 2019
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Rosanna Warren, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
The menhirs rose straight up, crude towers hacked from granite, taller than our parents.
—Rosanna Warren, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
By 2020, the modern menhir was a fossil in the making.
—Curbed, 24 Jan. 2024
The enormous, 65-ton capstone on top of its chamber is a broken fragment of a menhir, a standing stone, brought from 10 km away.
—Mike Parker Pearson, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2015
And yet four decades after the wrapping came off Philip Johnson and John Burgee’s 550 Madison Avenue to reveal a pink stone menhir with a fancy hat, the tower still radiates a wry, ornery, unmistakably New York personality.
—Curbed, 2 Nov. 2022
The original menhir may be 300 years (or more) older than the tomb.
—Mike Parker Pearson, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2015
Enlarge / Sculpted menhir at the entrance of the corridor leading to the dolmen.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2022
While Castaño suggests a curvy line seen on the menhir refers to the winding route of the nearby Tagus River, archaeologist Primitiva Bueno Ramírez identifies the marking as a snake with a triangular head.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 9 Sep. 2019
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“Menhir.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/menhir. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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