Editing Dolmen (section)

==Middle East==
Dolmens can be found in the [[Levant]], some along the [[Jordan Rift Valley]] ([[Upper Galilee]] in [[Israel]], the [[Golan Heights]],<ref name=FIAA>[https://www.friendsofiaa.org/news/2020/7/12/megalithic-structures-in-the-golan-and-the-galilee-reveal-rock-art-of-a-mysterious-ancient-culture Megalithic Structures in the Golan and the Galilee Reveal Rock Art of a Mysterious Ancient Culture], Friends of the [[Israel Antiquities Authority]], New York,12 July 2020. Accessed 12 Nov 2023.</ref> [[Jordan]], [[Lebanon]], [[Syria]], and southeast [[Turkey]].<ref name=Fraser18>James A. Fraser, ''Dolmens in the Levant'', 1st ed., 2018: [https://www.routledge.com/Dolmens-in-the-Levant/Fraser/p/book/9780367891954 "Description"]. Routledge homepage. Access 12 Nov 2023.</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Fraser|first=James A.|title=Approaching dolmens in the Levant|year=2018|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315147796-1|work=Dolmens in the Levant|pages=3–9|location=Abingdon, Oxon|publisher=Routledge|doi=10.4324/9781315147796-1 |isbn=9781315147796 |access-date=2021-12-22}}</ref>

Dolmens in the Levant belong to a different, unrelated tradition to that of Europe, although they are often treated "as part of a trans-regional phenomenon that spanned the [[Taurus Mountains]] to the [[Arabian Peninsula]]."<ref name=Fraser18/> In the Levant, they are of [[Early Bronze Age|Early Bronze]] rather than Late Neolithic age.<ref name=Fraser18/> They are mostly found along the Jordan Rift Valley's eastern escarpment, and in the hills of the Galilee, in clusters near Early Bronze I [[Proto-city|proto-urban settlements]] (3700–3000 BCE), additionally restricted by geology to areas allowing the quarrying of slabs of megalithic size.<ref name=Fraser18/> In the Levant, geological constraints led to a local burial tradition with a variety of tomb forms, dolmens being one of them.<ref name=Fraser18/>