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VIII.—The Dolmens and Megalithic Tombs of Spain and Portugal [PDF]

open access: yesArchaeologia, 1920
The work done by archaeologists in Spain, particularly within the last decade, in recording and exploring megalithic graves in that country has begun a new era in the study of the megalithic problem in Western Europe, since it is now at last possible to collate this new material with the evidence accumulated over a longer period in Portugal and thus to
E. Leeds
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The cultural landscape of megalithic tombs in Denmark, reconstructed by soil pollen analysis

open access: yesDanish Journal of Archaeology, 2012
Forty-four pollen spectra from 25 megalithic tombs (5 dolmens and 20 passage graves) in eastern and northern Denmark reveal a highly varied landscape with remains of woodland, coppice woods or secondary woodland and open areas of grass and herb ...
†Svend Th. Andersen
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Megalithic tombs and storied landscapes in Neolithic Ireland

open access: yesJournal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2010
This paper is concerned with the storied landscapes underlying the megalithic tradition of the Irish Neolithic. The importance of place is now well established as a significant factor in the distribution of megalithic tombs at a local level as well as ...
Muiris O´Sullivan
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Funerary practices in megalithic tombs during the Argaric Bronze Age in South-Eastern Iberia: The cemetery of Los Eriales

open access: yesJournal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2023
Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez   +2 more
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Machine Learning-Based Detection of Archeological Sites Using Satellite and Meteorological Data: A Case Study of Funnel Beaker Culture Tombs in Poland

open access: yesRemote Sensing
The detection of archeological sites in satellite imagery is often hindered by environmental constraints such as vegetation cover and variability in meteorological conditions, which affect the visibility of subsurface structures.
Krystian Kozioł   +5 more
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A Map of European Megaliths

open access: yesJournal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2023
As part of a request from the “European Megalithic Routes” organization to its Scientific Advisory Board for a comprehensive map of European megaliths, an attempt was made to produce the corresponding map using existing publications on megalithic tombs.
Johannes Müller   +3 more
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GIANT STONE BUILDINGS (II) - PYRAMIDS, THE MOST FAMOUS MONUMENTS IN THE WORLD [PDF]

open access: yese-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   +2 more
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DATA FUSION OF HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS WITH MODERN 3D DATA FOR AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION – CONCEPT AND FIRST RESULTS [PDF]

open access: yesThe 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   +3 more
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Is It Just the Location? Visibility Analyses of the West Pomeranian Megaliths of the Funnel Beaker Culture

open access: yesOpen 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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