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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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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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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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Megalithic Art in the Boyne Valley Passage Tombs [PDF]
, 2023 The purpose of this study is to quantify the locations of megalithic art within the main passage tombs at Knowth and Newgrange, in the Boyne Valley of Ireland, with the aim of better understanding meanings associated with the art as well as their social ...
Benoit, Andrew
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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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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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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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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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Dolmen and Tower Tombs (3600 - 2000 BC) [PDF]
, 2013 In the proto-historic period, the territory of contemporary Jordan was covered with megalithic tombs of two types that correspond to different livelihoods, associated with more or less arid environments.
Steimer-Herbet, Tara +1 more
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