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The Dolmen de Goudère is a megalithic monument located in the town of Gabre in the department of Ariège. This funeral site, dated Neolithic, bears witness to the collective burial practices of that time. It was classified as historic monuments in 1889, highlighting its early heritage importance.

The dolmen was mentioned in the 13th century as a boundary, which attests to its sustainability in the local landscape well beyond its original period of use. The necropolis, located north of Gabre village, is one of many protected megalithic sites in the region.

This type of monument reflects the social and spiritual organization of neolithic communities, where collective burials played a central role in the memory of human groups. In Ariège, as elsewhere in Europe, these stone structures often marked symbolic territories or landmarks, while sheltering the deceased.

Available sources, including references from the Merimée base and academic works such as Bruno Portet (1997), document its classification and location, but little detail its architecture or archaeological content. The property of the dolmen belongs today to the commune of Gabre.

The accuracy of its location is estimated as "a priori satisfactory" (level 6/10), and photographs under Creative Commons license, such as those of Pierre Goujet, allow to visualize its current state. The site remains a tangible testimony of the first sedentary agricultural societies in the region.

Finally, this dolmen is part of a wider network of Ariegean megaliths, illustrating the density of prehistoric human occupations in the Pyrenees and their legacy still visible today.

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