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Remapping the Senegambian megaliths: Beyond the culture area paradigm

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Between 1969 and 1982, Victor Martin and Charles Becker led a series of reconnaissance missions to document thousands of sites for their Inventaire des Sites Protohistoriques de la Sénégambie.
Cameron Gokee, Adama Harouna Athie, Ibrahima Thiaw, Assane Ndiaye   +3 more
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An introductory view on archaeoastronomy [PDF]

, 2016
Archaeoastronomy is still a marginalised topic in academia and is described by the Sophia Centre, the only UK institution offering a broader MA containing this field, as ‘the study of the incorporation of celestial orientation, alignments or symbolism in
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THE ROLE OF IRON AGE STELAE IN THE CREATION OF A SYMBOLIC LANDSCAPE ON THE ATLANTIC COAST OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page 159-181, May 2025.
Summary This paper investigates a complex archaeological landscape on the Iberian peninsula’s Atlantic coast. The present‐day landscape is characterized by dense forest and abrupt topography, posing challenges for a systematic research program of landscape archaeology.
Jagoba Hidalgo‐Masa, Jesús García Sánchez   +1 more
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Causewayed enclosures and megalithic monuments as media for shaping Neolithic identities

Journal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2010
In this paper I proffer the opinion that acceptance of the real Neolithic way of life, to become a full-time farmer, was a long and complicated process which, in Northern Europe, reached its peak during the second half of the fourth millennium.
Niels H. Andersen
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Close or not so close? Provenance studies of megalithic monuments from Alentejo (Portugal) [PDF]

, 2012
There has been a significant amount of studies about megalithic tombs conducted in the Alentejo region. However the geological provenance of monoliths used in the construction of those tombs usually was not a priority among researchers with rare ...
Boaventura, Rui, Moita, Patricia
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William Stukeley: an eighteenth-century phenomenologist? [PDF]

, 2003
Phenomenology is the modern theoretical archaeologist's word for the appreciation of how a prehistoric monument relates to its landscape. The author shows how the one of the earliest antiquaries, William Stukeley, pre-echoed some of its principles ...
Peterson, Rick
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Kuwae, Epi and Tongoa Islands: Transformations of a volcanic landscape in central Vanuatu

Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 60, Issue 1, Page 42-62, April 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a detailed overview of archaeological research undertaken on Epi and Tongoa, in central Vanuatu. These islands were previously connected to one another and respectively formed the western and eastern portions of Kuwae, one of the largest islands in the Vanuatu archipelago, until the catastrophic Tombuk volcanic eruption ...
ROBERT HENDERSON, STUART BEDFORD, MATTHEW SPRIGGS, SALKON YONA, IARAWAI PHILLIP, RICHARD SHING, FRÉDÉRIQUE VALENTIN, CAITLIN HARVEY   +7 more
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MegaForm – Ein Formalisierungssystem für die Analyse monumentaler Baustrukturen des Neolithikums im nördlichen Mitteleuropa

Journal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2010
MegaForm is a recording system for Neolithic megaliths in northern Central Europe and southern Scandinavia. It was created in the context of the Priority Program 1400 “Early Monumentality and Social Differentiation”.
Martin Furholt, Doris Mischka, Knut Rassmann, Georg Schafferer   +3 more
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The unfinished promise of infrastructure in post‐apartheid South Africa

Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 68, Issue 1, Page 37-55, January 2025.
Abstract This article explores aspects of the “unfinished” using notions of human‐centered design in African public infrastructure and the importance of involving the “users” and “beneficiaries” in infrastructure development and delivery. Infrastructure, both conceptually as an idea and in its constructed material reality, has a huge impact on society,
Katherine Roper
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A Detailed Archaeological Dataset of Megalithic Complex at Vindhyan Highlands: A Case Study of Dantari Hill, India

Journal of Open Archaeology Data
The dataset presents the physical and spatial features of the megalithic complex at Dantari Hill, Mirzapur District, Uttar Pradesh, India. It records funerary monuments (n = 482), microliths (n = 303), rock paintings (n = 119), and habitation sites (n ...
Dheeraj Sharma, Virag Gopal Sontakke, Prachi Virag Sontakke, Deepesh Singh   +3 more
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