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ABSTRACT This study details the analysis of an assemblage of Funnel Beaker pottery from Wanna in Northern Germany investigated using petrographic, geochemical, and organic residue analyses. The analyses revealed specialized production of pottery vessels for funerary contexts, but that domestic and funerary pottery were used intensively to process ...
I. L. Wiltshire +4 more
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Island Archaeology, Identity and Resilience in Menorca Through the Roman Epoch
The ancient Talayotic Culture of Menorca can be best distinguished from that of Mallorca through peculiarities in its monumental architecture. This paper examines the social significance of Menorca’s megalithic structures, known as ‘taulas’.
Margaret A. Amundson
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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 age artifacts are spreaded in the Jember region, one of them in the Kendal hamlet adjacent to the Duplang site. There are still many artifacts buried in this location that need to be explored using the geoelectric resistivity method of the ...
Arik Irawati +2 more
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Identities overseas? The long barrows in Denmark and Britain
Neolithic scholars have debated the significance of similarities between British and south Scandinavian ceramic styles and burial methods since the 1930s.
Constanze Rassmann
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Megaliths to Medicine Wheels: Boulder Structures in Archaeology
Proceedings of the 11th Annual Chacmool Archaeology ...
Wilson, Michael +2 more
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From Highlands to Henge: Refining the Provenance and Transport Pathways of Stonehenge's Altar Stone
ABSTRACT The Altar Stone, the 6000 kg central sandstone megalith at Stonehenge in southern England, is suggested to have originated from the Orcadian Basin in northeast Scotland, some 700 km away. However, its source location within this large basin remains unresolved and its mode of transport uncertain.
Anthony J. I. Clarke +8 more
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ABSTRACT Neolithic long barrows are among the earliest monumental structures in Europe, yet in many parts of Central Europe their surface expression has been largely erased by long‐term agricultural activity. This study evaluates the potential of integrated remote sensing approaches for identifying and contextualizing long barrows and associated ...
Petr Krištuf +5 more
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Fieldwork Notes: Visiting Megalithic Sites in Southern Banten [PDF]
Fieldwork Notes: Visiting Megalithic Sites in Southern ...
Rohman, Rohman
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Causewayed enclosures and megalithic monuments as media for shaping Neolithic identities
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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