Luminescence Dating of Rock Surface. The Case of Monoliths from the Megalithic Sanctuary of Ossimo-Pat (Valle Camonica, Italy) [PDF]
Applied Sciences, 2020 Ossimo-Pat megalithic sanctuary (Valle Camonica, BS, Italy) is one of the most relevant archaeological findings of the southern alpine region, for the variety of its structures and the quality of its engraved monoliths.
Anna Galli +4 more
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The Significance of Megalithic Monuments in the Process of Place Identity Creation and in Tourism Development [PDF]
Open Geosciences, 2018 All over the world and for thousands of years, megaliths have been significant cultural elements, as well as sacred sites and places of power. Nowadays megaliths act as a strong magnet for tourists, who appreciate their history, esoterica and magic. Some
Krzemińska Alicja Edyta +5 more
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Societies in balance: Monumentality and feasting activities among southern Naga communities, Northeast India. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Among various Naga communities of Northeast India, megalithic building and feasting activities played an integral role in the different and intertwined dimensions of social and political organisation until very recently.
Maria Wunderlich +4 more
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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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Chronological sequence of megalithic burial complexes of the Eneolithic in the Velikaya Aleksandrovka burial mound [PDF]
Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Причерноморья, 2022 The emergence of the earliest burial mounds in the Eneolithic of the North Pontic steppes (3900/3800—3500/3400 BCE) was accompanied by the construction of the earliest megalithic structures — cromlechs, the circular structures of which consisted of ...
Daragan, M.N. +2 more
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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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Megalithic Structures of the northern Sahara (Chott el Jérid, Tunisia)
Cartagine. Studi e Ricerche, 2020 Megalithic monuments are a distinctive archaeological feature of Saharan landscape, as indicated by different systematic research projects undertaken so far.
Andrea Monaco +10 more
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East Anglian early Neolithic monument burial linked to contemporary Megaliths [PDF]
Annals of Human Biology, 2019 In the fourth millennium BCE a cultural phenomenon of monumental burial structures spread along the Atlantic façade. Megalithic burials have been targeted for aDNA analyses, but a gap remains in East Anglia, where Neolithic structures were generally ...
Christiana L. Scheib +11 more
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Southern African Field ArchaeologyWe examined megalithic structures in the Lake Eyasi Basin of northern Tanzania to establish the provenance of the construction materials, understand the reasons for the use of particular raw material options and means of transport, as well as to ...
Albert Samwel Mjandwa +2 more
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GIANT STONE BUILDINGS (III) - CYCLOPEAN AND OTHER BUILDINGS OF MORE DEVELOPED ARCHITECTURE
e-Zbornik. Elektronički Zbornik Radova Građevinskog Fakulteta, 2023 Megalithic architecture is related to a series of ancient stone monuments of giant dimensions, which were constructed using almost untreated individual stones or stones grouped into certain structures, but also to numerous buildings of more recent ...
Krešimir Šaravanja +2 more
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