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The spatial structure of Galician megalithic landscapes (NW iberia): A case study from the Monte Penide region [PDF]

Journal of Archaeological Science, 2019
It is well known that Neolithic megalithic landscapes are the result of complex locational logics governing where communities chose to site their funerary monuments. These logics in turn respond to broader environmental and cultural affordances, and the relationship between these has been a major topic in the megalithic archaeological literature for ...
Carrero-Pazos, M, Bevan, A, Lake, MW
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The power of the past: materializing collective memory at early medieval lordly centres

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 34-69, February 2026.
The repurposing of earlier sites and monuments is an enduringly popular theme in early medieval archaeology, but in England it has attracted little interest among Late Saxon and early post‐Conquest studies. From the tenth century, however, an increasingly prevalent pattern is discernible of secular lords locating their power centres in relation to ...
Duncan W. Wright, Oliver H. Creighton, David Gould, Scott Chaussée, Tim Kinnaird, Michael Shapland, Aayush Srivastava, Sam Turner   +7 more
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Megaliths and Identities: Early Monuments and Neolithic Societies from the Atlantic to the Baltic [PDF]

, 2011
The third European Megalithic Studies Group Meeting was held from the 13th – 15th of May 2010 at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel. It was organised during an early stage of the Priority Programme „Early Monumentality and Social Differentiation“

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Commentary on Seersholm Et al.: Yersinia pestis Infection Is Not Synonymous With Deadly Plague in Neolithic Scandinavia

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 189, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Objectives Emerging genomic evidence has identified ancestral strains of Yersinia pestis in ancient human populations, which has sparked debates about its pathogenic role in later Neolithic societies. Here, we review published evidence linking anthropological and biological data reflecting the past natural history of Y.
Hamadou Oumarou Hama, Michel Drancourt, Philip Slavin, Florent Sebbane   +3 more
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Recent data for the funerary site of Lannemezan plateau and new insights into the Final Neolithic at the foothills of the western Pyrenees (abridged version)

Gallia Préhistoire, 2020
A rescue excavation at the site of Centre mobilisateur 10, located in the south-east of the Lannemezan agglomeration (Hautes-Pyrénées) and otherwise known as the Arsenal, was carried out in 2016 by the Éveha team, under the leadership of V. Ropiot.
Virginie Ropiot, Pablo Marticorena, Hatem Djerbi, Cédric Lepère, Emmanuel Mens, Guillaume Estrade, Didier Béziat, Carine Lézin   +7 more
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Les monuments mégalithiques du Somaliland

Afrique Archéologie Arts, 2017
Field investigations in Somaliland, quite scant but done as early as the xixth century, have allowed to evidence structures devoted mainly to funerary purpose.
Jean-Paul Cros, Xavier Gutherz, Joséphine Lesur, Mohamed Abdi Ali   +3 more
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Digital Spatial Technologies to Compose the Map of the Southeast Iberia Megalithic Phenomenon. The Case Study of Fonelas (Granada, Spain)

Archaeological Prospection, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 257-273, January/March 2026.
ABSTRACT Megalithic landscapes in Southeast Iberia remain unevenly and insufficiently documented, particularly in rugged areas where traditional survey methods are limited. This paper addresses this gap by applying a multiscalar approach to the megalithic necropolises of the Fardes River (Granada, Spain), with the objective of detecting, documenting ...
Carolina Cabrero González, Juan Antonio Cámara Serrano, José Antonio Bueno Herrera, Jesús Gámiz Caro   +3 more
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Immortal monuments : Reuse of megalithic tombs [PDF]

, 2017
Megalithic tombs that originally date back to the early to mid-neolithic are the oldest preserved monument that can be found in Scandinavia. The act of raising big stone structures for the dead shows that the monuments where build to last through time ...
Adamsson, Marcus
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Confrontation of Social Strategies? – Danubian Fortified Settlements and the Funnel Beaker Monuments in SE Poland

Journal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2011
In south-eastern Poland, two distinct cultural traditions seem to meet and merge during the 4th Millenium BC, the “Danubian Circle” represented by the Lublin-Volhynian culture, the Modlnica group of the Lengyel culture and the Złotniki-Wyciąże group of ...
Sławomir Kadrow
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The world's oldest man‐made biological experiment

Ecography, Volume 2026, Issue 1, January 2026.
Biological experiments are often short‐lived due to logistical or resource‐related challenges, and short‐term observations are extrapolated to make long‐term predictions. However, the effects of experimental treatments on biological communities and processes take time to develop.
Laura Käse, Chanvilay Somvongsa, Khamla Inkhavilay, Claus Christensen, Lars Lønsmann Iversen, Ole Pedersen, Lars Baastrup‐Spohr   +6 more
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