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Ancient DNA Reveals Limited Hunter-Gatherer Ancestry in the Cerny Culture (Middle Neolithic, France) Despite Hunting-Associated Practices. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
ABSTRACT The arrival of the Neolithic way of life in Europe is associated with the migration of Anatolian farmers and their admixture with local hunter‐gatherers. In the Paris Basin (Northern France), the Middle Neolithic Cerny culture (4700–4300 bce) combines agricultural practices with funerary items linked to hunting, suggesting a particular ...
Sauvage J, Lefeuvre M, Delvigne M, Dessarps F, Lafosse S, Chimènes A, Utge J, Laurent R, Thomas A, Marsolier MC, Bon C.   +10 more
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GIANT STONE BUILDINGS (II) - PYRAMIDS, THE MOST FAMOUS MONUMENTS IN THE WORLD [PDF]

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, which was the subject of the previous paper of these
Krešimir Šaravanja, Frano Oreč, Valerija Kopilaš   +2 more
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The Function and Meaning of Megalithic Cultural Heritage in Some Sites in Bantaeng Regency, South Sulawesi

Mozaik Humaniora, 2022
The Bantaeng megalithic site houses megalithic cultural relics, such as terraces (teras berundak), dakon, lumpang batu, menhir, dolmen, stone altars, circular stone (batu temu gelang), tombs, and fences, including fragments of pottery and foreign ...
Rosmawati Rosmawati, Akin Duli, Muhammad Nur, Yusriana Yusriana, Erwin Mansyur Ugu Saraka, Stephen Chia, Khadijah Thahir Muda, Yunus Sauman Sabin, Zuliskandar Ramli, Francis David Bulbeck, Adam Brumm   +10 more
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Clay architecture in megalithic tombs along the Atlantic Façade: France and Iberia [PDF]

Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia, 2023
Megalith’s image along the Atlantic façade is linked to sizeable stone structures. Despite the importance of clay in creating wood and stone structures, this use remains invisible when analysing the skills of megalithic buildings.
Primitiva Bueno-Ramírez, Luc Laporte, Julia Wattez   +2 more
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Is It Just the Location? Visibility Analyses of the West Pomeranian Megaliths of the Funnel Beaker Culture

Open Archaeology, 2022
The article attempts to apply visibility analyses to megalithic tombs of the Funnel Beaker Culture in the Pyrzyce Plain in north-western Poland. The analyses were carried out on 23 megalithic monuments in order to answer the questions whether the sites ...
Matuszewska Agnieszka, Schiller Marek
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DATA FUSION OF HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS WITH MODERN 3D DATA FOR AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION – CONCEPT AND FIRST RESULTS [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2021
Through the destruction of war, most of the documents of an archaeological excavation from 1934 – 1939 of a megalithic tomb in north-west Germany have been destroyed irretrievably. Fortunately, more than 500 historical pictures have been preserved, which
P. Kalinowski, F. Both, T. Luhmann, U. Warnke   +3 more
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Megalithic biographies. From partial closures to total closures and from single sealing to double sealing

Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2022
In five megalithic monuments in the Paris Basin, major structural rearrangements occurred from the Neolithic, involving displacements and removals of orthostats.
Dominique Jagu, Claude Masset
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Ethnoarchaeology of funeral practices: Aspects of the management of current dolmens and collective tombs in the tribal societies of Sumba Island (Indonesia)

Journal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2021
This paper presents the first results of an ethnoarchaeological project on the Indonesian island of Sumba, focusing on the study of the practice of collective burials.
Christian Jeunesse, Anthony Denaire, Bruno Boulestin, Noisette Bec Drelon   +3 more
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3D MODELLING IN THE REGISTRATION AND RESTORATION OF A MEGALITHIC TOMB [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2017
Abstract. This article aims at showing some potential applications of geomatics to works in which both excavation and restoration are carried out simultaneously, so that the three-dimensional layout of the monument undergoes continuous and important changes throughout the intervention.
Á. Rodríguez Miranda, P. Pérez Vidiella, J. Fernández-Eraso, J. A. Mujika-Alustiza, J. M. Valle Melón   +4 more
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New excavations at the hypogeal necropolis of Sa Figu (Ittiri-Sassari): Tomb IV

IpoTESI di Preistoria, 2010
This paper presents the results of excavation in the 4th Tomb belonging the Bronze Age necropolis of Sa Figu, near Ittiri (Sassari-Sardinia): a rock-cut tomb of the "architectonic prospect" type, reproducing the characteristic elements of the nuragic ...
Paolo Melis
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