Photo Interpretation and GIS as a support tool for Archaeology: The use of satelitte Images for creating interpretation keys for dolmens [PDF]
, 2017 This work presents photo interpretation integration techniques of high resolution aerial photographs and satellite images. Through the use of this methodology, it is possible to identify Dolmens located in the Center Alentejo - Portugal, and recover ...
Batista, Teresa, Câmara, Ariele
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Open ArchaeologyThe creation, maintenance, and modification of prehistoric built spaces and structural landscapes required communities that engaged and interacted collectively.
Wunderlich Maria +2 more
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City of Stones in the Moroccan Middle Atlas: Special Funeral Rites [PDF]
BIO Web of ConferencesThe Middle Atlas and particularly the Boulmane region is full of pre-Islamic funerary monuments. The overwhelming majority of them are circular tumuli. However, two burials from the “City of Stones” are completely different from this common pattern and ...
Benabdelhadi Mohammed +2 more
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Space of memory and representation : Bouça da Cova da Moura (Ardegães, Maia, Northwest of Portugal) [PDF]
, 2010 Bouça da Cova da Moura is the local place-name attributed to a stretch of a plateau overlooking the Leça valley. Here, Neolithic burial mounds share their landscape setting with scatters of archaeological materials that include Bell Beaker fragments ...
Alves, Lara Bacelar +3 more
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Rock of Eternity: The Megalith of Pallikonda
Ancient Asia, 2016 The south Indian megalithic age exhibits a wonderful range of sepulchral and non sepulchral stone monuments erected possibly within 1100 BC–300 AD. However, building megalithic graves fell into disuse post-1000 AD for yet unknown
Pradipta Banerjee
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Os menires do Alto da Cruz:novos dados e algumas reflexões sobre o Megalitismo da área de Brotas (Mora) [PDF]
, 2011 We report on the recently identified group of menhirs in Alto da Cruz (Mora,Alentejo) and about some questions we raise, after its discovery, regarding the chronologic evolution of megalithic monuments in the Brotas ...
Alvim, Pedro, Rocha, Leonor
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Megalithic Monuments In Dharmapuri District
, 2017 {"references": ["1.\tRicherts. F.J, Salem District Gazetters, Vol-I, Part-I, 1918, p.47 2.\tPuley Andi Senji, Tamil Nadu District Gazetters - Dharmapuri district, Government of Tamil Nadu, 1995, p.17 3.\tNarashimmaih.B, Neolithic and Megalithic Cultures in Tamil Nadu, Sundeep Prakasan, Delhi, 1980, p.132 4.\tIbid.,pp.132-133 5.\tRamachandran.K.S ...
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Beyond Virtual Replicas: 3D Modeling and Maltese Prehistoric Architecture
Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2013 In the past decade, computer graphics have become strategic for the development of projects aimed at the interpretation of archaeological evidence and the dissemination of scientific results to the public. Among all the solutions available, the use of 3D
Filippo Stanco, Davide Tanasi
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Anthropomorphic image as origins of ancestor´s”Caves”. The stele -menhir of Anta do Telhal, Arraiolos, Évora, Portugal [PDF]
, 2015 It is a fact that in Europe menhirs, stelae and statues and their origin, configuration, and maintenance in funerary megalithic spaces play an important role.
BALBÍN BEHRMANN, Rodrigo +3 more
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Monuments, society and the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, with particular reference to Cumbria and the northern Irish Sea region [PDF]
This thesis argues that henges, stone circles and ring cairns form a 'spectrum' of monuments with origins in the earlier Neolithic. In that context it is suggested that some of the structures located beneath long cairns were originally free standing foci.
Clare, T
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