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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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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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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New Dates for Megalithic Stele Monuments of Gedeo, South Ethiopia [PDF]
, 2021 This paper reports the results of an archaeological survey and test excavation conducted in one of the ancient megalithic stele sites in south Ethiopia, Sakaro Sodo. The Sakaro Sodo stele site is situated in Gedeo zone, which is known to have the largest
M. Steven Shackley (7004753) +5 more
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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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MEGALITHIC AND NON-MEGALITHIC MONUMENTS IN THE KELABIT HIGHLANDS OF SARAWAK (MONUMEN MEGALITIK DAN BUKAN MEGALITIK DI KELABIT HIGHLANDS, SARAWAK) [PDF]
, 2022 The megalithic and non-megalithic monuments of the Kelabit Highlands gained prominence in archaeological circles and in public eyes through the pioneering research conducted by Tom Harrisson from the late 1940s to the 1970s.
Nicholas, Gani
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Monuments in the mountains: the megalithic graves of western China [PDF]
, 2022 While the megaliths of Europe are world-famous and the dolmens of Korea, Japan, and Northeast China have received much scholarly attention, few have heard of the stonebuilt graves of western China.
Hein, Anke
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Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2008 Recent fieldwork conducted along the Tihâma coastal plain has illuminated a late prehistoric megalithic culture that extends the length of the Red Sea coast of Yemen. To date, seven sites comprising megalithic elements have been documented in the region.
Lamya Khalidi
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Megalithic structures and dolmen orientation in Bulgaria [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2013 A review of the main types of megalithic and quasi-megalithic monuments in Bulgaria is presented together with maps of their localization. A large and modern data base about the orientation of 110 Thracian dolmens (XII-VII c. BC) is interpreted in detail.
Tsonev, L.V., Kolev, D.Z.
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