Earthen burial mounds with upright and lintel stones forming chambers for multiple burials are called what?

• A. Tumuli
• B. Cairns
• C. Dolmens
• D. Barrows

Answer: (A)

The main idea here is that a tumulus is an earthen burial mound. When such a mound includes a chamber formed by upright stones with a horizontal lintel, it creates a stone-lined burial chamber capable of holding multiple individuals. This combination of an earth mound with a built stone chamber is a hallmark of tumuli in many prehistoric contexts, especially where several burials are placed within one mound. Cairns are simply piles of stones without a formal chamber, dolmens are the stone-chamber structures themselves (often without the surrounding mound), and barrows are another term for burial mounds but don’t inherently emphasize the stone-lined chamber inside. So the term that best fits this description is tumuli.