Tradition guide
Prehistoric
Prehistoric sites connect places through shared lineage, practice, story, and pilgrimage across the global atlas.
345 sacred places share this lineage. Use the country links to narrow in.
Atlas summary
Prehistoric sacred sites overview
Prehistoric sacred sites connect places through shared lineage, ritual use, memory, and pilgrimage practice across the Pilgrim Map atlas.
Use this page to compare country clusters, common place types, UNESCO-tagged landmarks, and the map distribution before exploring individual site pages.
| Coverage | 345 Prehistoric sacred places in the current atlas. |
|---|---|
| Country clusters |
Refine the atlas
Related Prehistoric guides
Showing 337-345 of 345 sites in this tradition guide
Vrångstads Long Dolmen
Tanums kommun, Västra Götaland, Sweden
On a rocky hilltop near Bottna in Sweden's Tanum municipality, a twenty-three-meter-long dolmen with nine surrounding menhirs has anchored the landscape in ancestral...
Wayland's Smithy
Swindon, England, United Kingdom
Wayland's Smithy stands in England as a major prehistoric site. At Wayland's Smithy, Prehistoric ritual and funerary traditions provides the public sacred context....
West Kennet Long Barrow
West Kennett, England, United Kingdom
West Kennet Long Barrow is a nationally or regionally important prehistoric place in England....
White Horse Stone
Boxley, England, United Kingdom
White Horse Stone is a sarsen megalith near Aylesford, Kent — one of the oldest surviving prehistoric monuments in southern England....
Xerez Cromlech
Reguengos de Monsaraz, Évora, Portugal
Fifty-five granite menhirs encircle a central stone nearly 4.5 meters tall in a rare square rather than circular plan, near the village of Telheiro in the Alqueva region....
Yarrows Broch
Thrumster, Scotland, United Kingdom
On a promontory jutting into the Loch of Yarrows, a broch stands at the centre of one of the richest archaeological landscapes in northern Scotland....
Yeşilova Höyük
İzmir, Turkey
Yeşilova Höyük is a Neolithic and Chalcolithic tell mound in Bornova, İzmir, occupied from around 6500 to 4000 BC....
Yli-Ii Kierikki Settlement Area
Yli-Ii (Oulu), North Ostrobothnia, Finland
Beyond the reconstructed village at the Kierikki Stone Age Centre lies the real thing: an extensive Neolithic settlement landscape along the Iijoki river with more than...
Yockenthwaite stone circle
Buckden, England, United Kingdom
Hidden in the remote valley of Langstrothdale, the Yockenthwaite Stone Circle marks a four-thousand-year-old burial site where Bronze Age peoples laid their dead to rest....
Showing 337-345 of 345 sites
Previous pageKey questions
Prehistoric sacred-site questions
What are Prehistoric sacred sites?
Prehistoric sacred sites are places connected by shared lineage, practice, memory, ritual use, or pilgrimage tradition.
Where can I find Prehistoric sacred sites?
The strongest country clusters in this guide include United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, France, Ireland, Sweden.
What kinds of places are included?
The guide includes sacred landscapes, pilgrimage places, and ritual or historical sites where available.
Can I map Prehistoric sacred sites?
Yes. Compare country clusters and physical forms first, then open individual pages for coordinates, historical context, and visitor guidance.