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A prehistoric taula on Minorca, featuring a large upright rectangular stone slab topped by a horizontal stone, standing outdoors among rocks and dry grass.

taula

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Western architecture
Balearic Islands
…a ship, and the Minorcan taula, a monolithic column topped by a slab and recognized today as a support for a place of worship. This megalithic architecture, which was imposing in conception and skilled in execution, continued into the 1st millennium bce, the early Iron Age, and made the Balearic…
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…a ship, and the Minorcan taula, a monolithic column topped by a slab and recognized today as a support for a place of worship. This megalithic architecture, which was imposing in conception and skilled in execution, continued into the 1st millennium bce, the early Iron Age, and made the Balearic…
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Minorca
…Roman times, include talayots and taulas, both structures of unknown purpose. The former, a type of tower, was roofed, generally with the aid of a central pillar composed of circular superimposed slabs, and faced with clay to produce a monolithic structure. The taulas, so-called “tables,” may well have been used…
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…Roman times, include talayots and taulas, both structures of unknown purpose. The former, a type of tower, was roofed, generally with the aid of a central pillar composed of circular superimposed slabs, and faced with clay to produce a monolithic structure. The taulas, so-called “tables,” may well have been used…
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