Who venerated the ancestors at the Petit-Chasseur site? Examining Early Bronze Age cultic activities around megalithic monuments through the archaeometric analyses of ceramic findings (Upper Rhône Valley, Switzerland, 2200-1600 BC). [PDF]
Archaeol Anthropol Sci, 2023 Carloni D +4 more
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Megalithic tombs, barrows, and enclosures in fourth millennium BC Britain [PDF]
, 2016 The date and distribution across Britain of megalithic monuments and related structures dating to the fourth millennium BC is briefly outlined, together with on overview of contemporary enclosures. Studies of the distribution of human body parts show that in southern Britain during the period c.3800–3300 BC long barrows and oval barrows were built and ...
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Megalitismo y zonas de paso en la cuenca extremeña del Tajo
Zephyrus, 2009 RESUMÉ: Le propos de cet article c'est mettre en évidence que la distribution des monuments megalitiques placés autour les rives du Tajo en Extremadure (dans le Centre-ouest de l'Espagne) est vraiment relié avec les zonnes de passage du fleuve et les ...
Eduardo GALÁN DOMINGO +1 more
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First evidence for cattle traction in Middle Neolithic Ireland: A pivotal element for resource exploitation. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Pigière F, Smyth J.
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Gluhite Kamani: Old questions and new approaches [PDF]
, 2012 Големият интерес към Глухите камъни се дължи основно на многобройните ниши, изсечени по увенчаващите билото скални зъбери. Най-впечатляващи обаче са изсичанията в доминиращия над околните скален масив.
Kecheva, Nadezhda +4 more
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The Earliest Baltic Amber in Western Europe [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2023 Murillo-Barroso M +2 more
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Neolithic and Bronze Age Pembrokeshire [PDF]
, 2016 This chapter tells the story of Pembrokeshire between about 4000 BC and 700 BC, a remote period of more than 3000 years when life was quite different from that of more recent times.
Darvill, Timothy, Wainwright, Geoff
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Beowulf and archaeology: Megaliths imagined and encountered in early medieval Europe [PDF]
, 2014 This is the author's version of a book chapter published in The lives of prehistoric monuments in Iron Age, Roman and medieval Europe by Oxford University Press, 2015.The dragon’s lair in the epic Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf has been widely interpreted to ...
Williams, Howard
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A two-stage economic evolution at the inception of farming in Central Portugal. Preliminary examination of possible causes and consequences [PDF]
, 2015 Notwithstanding their scarcity and uneven distribution, zooarchaeological and stable isotope data sets on the Early and Middle Neolithic (5500-3200 cal BC) in the region of Estremadura in Central Portugal strongly suggest that two succeeding stages in ...
Carvalho, AF
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Interpreting megalithic tomb orientation and siting within broader cultural contexts
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2016 This paper assesses the measured axial orientations and siting of Irish passage tombs. The distribution of monuments with passages/entrances directed at related tombs/cairns is shown. Where this phenomenon occurs, the targeted structure is invariably located at a higher elevation on the skyline and this could suggest a symbolic and hierarchical ...
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