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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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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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Archaeological Prospection, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 89-103, April/June 2023., 2023 Abstract The megalithic cluster of the Gor River valley (Andalusia, Spain) is one of the biggest dolmenic groups in Europe, made up of 151 preserved megaliths. In spite of this high number of known monuments, increasing loss and destruction of many of the graves has taken place during the last decades due to enormous soil erosion and anthropogenic ...
Carolina Cabrero‐González +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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El sitio de los dólmenes de Antequera en la obra de Georg y Vera Leisner: una revisión [PDF]
, 2019 The Antequera dolmens site (Malaga, Spain), included in the UNESCO World Heritage List since July 2016, has a research history of almost 200 years that goes back to the work of Rafael Mitjana y Ardison in the 1840s.
Bartelheim, Martin +2 more
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Automated methods for image detection of cultural heritage: Overviews and perspectives
Archaeological Prospection, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 153-169, April/June 2023., 2023 Abstract Remote sensing data covering large geographical areas can be easily accessed and are being acquired with greater frequency. The massive volume of data requires an automated image analysis system. By taking advantage of the increasing availability of data using computer vision, we can design specific systems to automate data analysis and ...
Ariele Câmara +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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Sex bias in Neolithic megalithic burials
American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 180, Issue 1, Page 196-206, January 2023., 2023 Abstract Objectives A statistical study comparing osteological and ancient DNA determinations of sex was conducted in order to investigate whether there are sex biases in United Kingdom and Irish Neolithic megalithic burials. Materials and Methods Genetic and osteological information from human individuals from 32 megalithic sites in the UK and Ireland
Elliot Elliott +4 more
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