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The megalith builders of Great Britain : one culture or one belief [PDF]
, 2001 On a recent visit to Western Europe I had the chance to observe a number of Neolithic sites such as, Stonehenge, Avebury, Salisbury Hill, Newgrange, etc..
Conerly, Jason
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Ethnographisch-Archaeologische ZeitschriftAlthough the tradition of building megaliths among a few tribal communities in Northeast India has attracted scholarly interest in South Asia due to its archaeological significance, there is a lack of understanding regarding the social support networks ...
Oinam Premchand Singh
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Megalithism Representation in CIDOC-CRM
, 2022 The definition of Megalithism is found in specialized and academic works, on Archaeology and Prehistory, as well as in generalist dictionaries, glossaries and encyclopedias. However we are not aware of formal definitions specifically to this particular domain.
Ivo Santos +4 more
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Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Upland farming in Europe is frequently assumed to have been limited and precarious, despite relict spade‐dug ridges providing firm evidence of past crop growing. Direct evidence for crop types in post‑Medieval to Modern (~since 1500 CE) uplands is rare; yet, in Ireland, relict spade‐dug ridges that date to this period are commonly interpreted ...
Helen Essell, Gill Plunkett
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Significant Far‐Right Challenges to Australian Society? The XYZ and AustraliaOne
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars who analyse the Australian far‐right from a criminological or security studies perspective propose that activists and groups pose ‘political’ challenges to Australian society. This paper examines the far‐right news website The XYZ and the AustraliaOne political party, and argues that claims that the far‐right may normalise ...
Timothy Lynch
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American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In response to the planetary climate crisis, influential scholarship has directed us to decenter the human, recognize nonhuman agency, and imagine more‐than‐human futures. But what might this leave out? Drawing on Indigenous forest worlds in India and the incarcerated intellectual‐activists who struggled alongside them, this article develops a
Alpa Shah
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Megalith Cultures of the Kelabit Highlands through Space and Time Exhibition [PDF]
, 2017 Megalith Cultures of the Kelabit Highlands through Space and Time Exhibition, Teripun Community Museum, Bario ...
Siri, H. +3 more
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Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 6, Page 1437-1449, December 2026.ABSTRACT This study details the analysis of an assemblage of Funnel Beaker pottery from Wanna in Northern Germany investigated using petrographic, geochemical, and organic residue analyses. The analyses revealed specialized production of pottery vessels for funerary contexts, but that domestic and funerary pottery were used intensively to process ...
I. L. Wiltshire +4 more
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Storied Space: Documenting a Megalith at the Menominee Reservation, Wisconsin, USA
American AntiquityThroughout the precolonial era, monumentality in the midcontinent was expressed through a variety of earthen constructions from circular mounds to animal effigies to geometric shapes to depictions of spiritual beings.
Madeleine McLeester +6 more
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Megalithism in the Middle East
, 2022 Seven thousand years ago, the Middle East witnessed the emergence of new funerary rites. Previous traditions of burying the dead directly in the earth, in jars, or in an ossuary, were replaced with a new practice of inhumation inside megalithic tombs.
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