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Societies in balance: Monumentality and feasting activities among southern Naga communities, Northeast India. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
Among various Naga communities of Northeast India, megalithic building and feasting activities played an integral role in the different and intertwined dimensions of social and political organisation until very recently.
Maria Wunderlich   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Megaliths, monuments and materiality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Stones, and especially the arrangement of large stones in relation to one another, have long been the focus of attention in megalith studies, a concern reflected in the name itself. It is, however, a blinkered view.
Darvill, Timothy
core   +4 more sources

Reconstructing prehistoric lifeways using multi-Isotope analyses of human enamel, dentine, and bone from Legaire Sur, Spain. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE
Megalithism has been repetitively tied to specialised herding economies in Iberia, particularly in the mountainous areas of the Basque Country. Legaire Sur, in the uplands of Álava region, is a recently excavated passage tomb (megalithic monument) that ...
Jacob I Griffith   +10 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The Megalithic Builders

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2020
Between the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, António dos Santos Rocha excavated several prehistoric megalithic monuments in the region of Figueira da Foz (Portugal).
Ana Maria Silva
doaj   +2 more sources

A Map of European Megaliths

open access: yesJournal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2023
As part of a request from the “European Megalithic Routes” organization to its Scientific Advisory Board for a comprehensive map of European megaliths, an attempt was made to produce the corresponding map using existing publications on megalithic tombs.
Johannes Müller   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

MEGALITHIC CULTURE IN RAJEKWESI VILLAGE KENDIT DISTRICT SITUBONDO REGENCY

open access: yesJurnal Historica, 2022
The purpose of this study is to take an inventory of the number of archaeological remains of megalithic culture and other archaeological. The results of this study are the number of archaeological remains of megalithic culture at the Rajekwesi site, with
Muarafa Nur Afif   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Situs Megalitik Tanjung Telang, Kabupaten Lahat: Kajian Bentuk Dan Fungsi.

open access: yesDiakronika, 2023
This article is entitled Megalithic site Tanjung Telang, Lahat Regency: Study of Form and Function. This article aims to examine the from and function at the Tanjung Telang megalithic site, Lahat Regency, South Sumatra Province.
Tama Maysuri   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

GIANT STONE BUILDINGS (III) - CYCLOPEAN AND OTHER BUILDINGS OF MORE DEVELOPED ARCHITECTURE

open access: yese-Zbornik. Elektronički Zbornik Radova Građevinskog Fakulteta, 2023
Megalithic architecture is related to a series of ancient stone monuments of giant dimensions, which were constructed using almost untreated individual stones or stones grouped into certain structures, but also to numerous buildings of more recent ...
Krešimir Šaravanja   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

GIANT STONE BUILDINGS (II) - PYRAMIDS, THE MOST FAMOUS MONUMENTS IN THE WORLD [PDF]

open access: yese-Zbornik. Elektronički Zbornik Radova Građevinskog Fakulteta, 2023
Megalithic architecture is related to a series of ancient stone monuments of giant dimensions, which were constructed using almost untreated individual stones or stones grouped into certain structures, which was the subject of the previous paper of these
Krešimir Šaravanja   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Is It Just the Location? Visibility Analyses of the West Pomeranian Megaliths of the Funnel Beaker Culture

open access: yesOpen Archaeology, 2022
The article attempts to apply visibility analyses to megalithic tombs of the Funnel Beaker Culture in the Pyrzyce Plain in north-western Poland. The analyses were carried out on 23 megalithic monuments in order to answer the questions whether the sites ...
Matuszewska Agnieszka, Schiller Marek
doaj   +1 more source

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