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Megalithic Tombs of France [PDF]
Nature, 1961 The Prehistoric Chamber Tombs of France A Geographical, Morphological and Chronological Survey. By Glyn Daniel. Pp. xx + 282 + 32 plates. (London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd., 1960.) 70s. net.
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The Chronology of Danish Dolmens. Results from 14C Dates on Human Bones
Journal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2023 The thousands of dolmens and long barrows spread across the Danish landscape are the earliest long-lasting expressions of architectural monumentality in Scandinavia.
Karl-Göran Sjögren, Anders Fischer
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Virtual Archaeology Review, 2012 Although early prehistoric findings belong to Middle Paleolithic (30,000 to 50,000 years ago), it was 6,000 years ago when Gorafe Valley was occupied by tribes characterized by collective burials in tombs made of big blocks, that is, in dolmens ...
Jon Arambarri Basáñez +2 more
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Open Archaeology, 2022 The Petit-Chasseur megalithic necropolis is a key archaeological context for analyzing the social and ideological changes at the end of the Neolithic in the Alpine region of Central Europe. The link between the funerary monuments and settlement sites was
Carloni Delia +4 more
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Insights into the Funerary Practices in the Dolmen of Cabecinha (Figueira da Foz, Portugal)
Documenta Praehistorica, 2021 The dolmen of Cabecinha in the region of Figueira da Foz (Coimbra, Portugal) was excavated at the end of the 19th century by António dos Santos Rocha. This tomb belongs to a Megalithic necropolis of c.
Ana Maria Silva
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Megaliths, Landscapes and Identities: the case of Falbygden, Sweden
Journal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2010 Today, about 525 dolmens and passage graves are known in Sweden. These tombs were built in a short and intense period, c. 3300- 3000 BC, in the cultural setting of the Funnel Beaker (TRB) culture. The tombs occur in two distinct types of landscape.
Karl-Göran Sjögren
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Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2008 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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Journal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2023 The excavation of the simple dolmen at Tiarp, Falbygden, dating to around 3500 BCE, has provided important information for the understanding of the megalithic and early TRB in southern Scandinavia and northern Central Europe.
Karl-Göran Sjögren +5 more
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The cultural landscape of megalithic tombs in Denmark, reconstructed by soil pollen analysis
Danish 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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Documenta Praehistorica, 2020 Between the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, António dos Santos Rocha excavated several prehistoric megalithic monuments in the region of Figueira da Foz (Portugal).
Ana Maria Silva
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