Editorial: Advances in understanding megaliths and related prehistoric lithic monuments
Journal of Lithic Studies, 2017 Standing stones and megalithic monuments are impressive remains from a remote prehistoric world that for the British Isles began some 6000 years ago and led to a cultural flowering that peaked in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age with the rise of ...
G. Terence Meaden
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Light at the end of the tunnel: the way megalithic art was viewed and experienced
Documenta Praehistorica, 2006 This paper explores how megalithic art may have been viewed during a period when Neolithic monuments were in use as repositories for the dead. The group of monuments discussed are primarily passage graves which were being constructed within many of the ...
George Nash
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Insights on the changing dynamics of cemetery use in the neolithic and chalcolithic of southern Portugal. Radiocarbon dating of Lugar do Canto Cave (Santarém) [PDF]
, 2014 Lugar do Canto Cave is one of the most relevant Neolithic burial caves in Portugal given not only its extraordinary preservation conditions at the time of discovery but also the quality of the field record obtained during excavation. Its material culture
Carvalho, António, Luis Cardoso, Joao
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BIM APPLIED ON THE MEGALITHIC HERITAGE: INTRODUCTION TO THE A-BIM AND THE ASSETS OF THE MODEL FOR THE DIAGNOSTIC AND THE DEFINITION OF CONSERVATION MEASURES [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2022 The diversity and the number of factors impacting the conservation of buildings heritage require to compare and confront a wide range of data to understand better the causes of the potential disorders. The HBIM technology and processes have already shown
D. Groux, G. Quéré, P. Scaramuzza
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The influence of religious and cosmological beliefs on the solar architecture of the ancient world [PDF]
, 2014 In the earliest civilizations of the Ancient World, sun worship developed in parallel with an understanding of the movement of the stars. That was the origin of an architecture that expressed a number of religious and cosmological beliefs.
Fumadó Alsina, Joan Lluís +2 more
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Stone people: monuments and identities in the Channel Islands
Journal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2010 This paper deals with two intersecting issues of identity: the special identity of communities living on the Channel Islands off the coast of northwest France in the 5th and 4th millennium BC, as expressed through monuments; and the identity that seems ...
Chris Scarre
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Clay architecture in megalithic tombs along the Atlantic Façade: France and Iberia [PDF]
Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia, 2023 Megalith’s image along the Atlantic façade is linked to sizeable stone structures. Despite the importance of clay in creating wood and stone structures, this use remains invisible when analysing the skills of megalithic buildings.
Primitiva Bueno-Ramírez +2 more
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Heritage Building Stones from Évora, Portugal [PDF]
, 2020 The city of Évora, a World Heritage Site recognized by UNESCO in 1986, also owes this recognition to the stones that built its monuments and preserve them until today. This work brings together the contributions that we have gathered over the past three
Lope, Luís
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Visibility studies in archaeology: a review and case study [PDF]
, 2004 This paper describes the history and current state of archaeological visibility studies. The first part is a survey of both GIS (geographic information systems) and non-GIS studies of visibility by archaeologists, which demonstrates how advances in GIS ...
Lake, MW, Woodman, PE
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Geo-material provenance and technological properties investigation in Copper Age menhirs production at Allai (central-western Sardinia, Italy) [PDF]
, 2017 During the 2nd millennium BC anthropomorphic menhirs belonging to a 3rd millennium BC sanctuary were reused as building material in the Arasseda Nuraghe (Sardinia, Italy).
Cannas, Carla +2 more
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