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Exploring the Monumentality of Khasi-Jaintia Hills Megaliths
Journal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2019 To the Khasi-Pnar community, who are considered to be the authochthons of the Khasi-Jaintia hills of Meghalaya in northeastern India, the importance of their megalithic monuments is evident in their language itself, since the word “Kyn-maw” or “memory ...
Marco Mitri
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Orientation of Trb-West Megalithic Monuments [PDF]
Journal for the History of Astronomy, 2006 Peer ...
González-García, A. César +1 more
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MONUMEN MEGALITIK DAN TRANSPORTASI BAHANNYA: Analisis Terhadap Beberapa Faktor Yang Berpengaruh
Berkala Arkeologi, 2009 Megalithic monuments in Nusantara are generally found on plateaus, for example on hill tops, mountain slopes, and other remote locations. A big question often raised on how the prehistoric people could move such huge and heavy boulders to build their ...
Lutfi Yondri
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Open 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
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Geoarchaeology, Volume 38, Issue 6, Page 740-770, November/December 2023., 2023 Abstract This article presents an interdisciplinary study of two Late/Final Neolithic gallery graves (Kernic and Lerret) located on the orthwestern coast of Brittany (Western France). These monuments show striking similarities in terms of architectural style and geographical position.
Aneta Gorczyńska +3 more
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A Typological Classification of Megaliths of Mizoram
Journal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2019 The practice of raising megalithic monuments is a tradition of the Mizos in early society. Since the purpose and significance of the megalithic tradition in society differed from tribe to tribe and from culture to culture, the Mizos used wood or stone ...
_ Malsawmliana
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The evolution of the Swedish market model
Economic Affairs, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 170-184, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Sweden historically pioneered many aspects of a modern market economy, hosting the first known share company, the first European credit notes, and the first central bank. Anders Chydenius's booklet Den nationella vinsten (The National Gain) was printed in 1765, 11 years before Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations.
Nima Sanandaji +3 more
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Ideology and Symbolism of Traditional Architecture
Journal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2019 The social and cultural memories existing in the Naga oral histories relating to megalithic culture elucidates important information on the ideology of erecting megalithic monuments, social organization, rituals and their economic usages.
Ditamulu Vasa
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GIANT STONE BUILDINGS (I) - MEGALITHIC PREHISTORIC BUILDINGS - DIVISION, ORIGIN AND SPREAD [PDF]
e-Zbornik. Elektronički Zbornik Radova Građevinskog Fakulteta, 2022 Giant stone structures all over the world, with their millennia-old age, size, durability, construction method that surpasses the technical capabilities of ancient cultures, but also with a mysterious purpose, have aroused the interest of experts and the
Krešimir Šaravanja +2 more
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Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 58, Issue 1, Page 56-73, April 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT Torres Strait (TS), on Australia's north‐east border, has a long history of research on pœrapœral kulal: powerful stones. Pœrapœral kulal contain vital power from site‐of‐origin and therefore their movement across the Coral‐Arafura Sea corridor provides important information about past and present human relationships (Elu 2004).
Rod Mitchell +4 more
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