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Megaliths, monuments and materiality [PDF]

, 2010
Stones, and especially the arrangement of large stones in relation to one another, have long been the focus of attention in megalith studies, a concern reflected in the name itself. It is, however, a blinkered view.
Darvill, Timothy
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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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Bell Beaker ‘Re-Use’ of Older Sites [PDF]

, 2017
In Western and West-Central Europe, it is common to find sherds of Bell-Beakers in the uppermost layers of megalithic monuments, sometimes accompanied by bones of a corre- sponding age. This ‘re-use’ is not restricted to burial-context.
Sommer, Ulrike
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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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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.
openaire   +1 more source

The late prehistoric standing stones of the Tihâma (Yemen): the domestication of space and the construction of human-landscape identity

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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The Megalithic Builders

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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Stone people: monuments and identities in the Channel Islands

Journal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2010
This paper deals with two intersecting issues of identity: the special identity of communities living on the Channel Islands off the coast of northwest France in the 5th and 4th millennium BC, as expressed through monuments; and the identity that seems ...
Chris Scarre
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Small Houses of the Dead: A Model of Collective Funerary Activity in the Chalcolithic Tombs of Southwestern Iberia. La Orden-Seminario Site (Huelva, Spain)

Open Archaeology, 2023
This study analyses the funerary activity of small collective tombs with a limited number of individuals in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula during the Copper Age.
Linares-Catela José Antonio, Vera-Rodríguez Juan Carlos   +1 more
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Monuments and Monumentality:The cosmological model of the world of megaliths [PDF]

, 2010
Neolithic monuments are physical and conceptual expressions of ideas about the nature of the world inhabited by early north European farmers. This contribution explores the complex symbolism encoded in megalithic architecture, and the socio-ritual ...
Midgley, Magdalena
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