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At the beginnings of the funerary Megalithism in Iberia at Campo de Hockey necropolis [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2022
The excavations undertaken at the Campo de Hockey site in 2008 led to the identification of a major Neolithic necropolis in the former Island of San Fernando (Bay of Cádiz).
Eduardo Vijande Vila, Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, Iñigo Olalde   +2 more
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Reconstructing prehistoric lifeways using multi-Isotope analyses of human enamel, dentine, and bone from Legaire Sur, Spain. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Megalithism has been repetitively tied to specialised herding economies in Iberia, particularly in the mountainous areas of the Basque Country. Legaire Sur, in the uplands of Álava region, is a recently excavated passage tomb (megalithic monument) that ...
Jacob I Griffith, Hannah F James, Javier Ordoño, Teresa Fernández-Crespo, Carina T Gerritzen, Christina Cheung, Rachèl Spros, Philippe Claeys, Steven Goderis, Barbara Veselka, Christophe Snoeck   +10 more
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Rethinking Megalithism as Heterotopia: Empirical Insights from Alentejo (Portugal) [PDF]

Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia
This article reconceptualises Megalithism through the lens of Michel Foucault’s lecture “Des espaces autres” (1967). We frame these monuments as prehistoric heterotopias: tangible places that create specific social relations by juxtaposing incompatible ...
Mara Beatriz Agosto
exaly   +3 more sources

'Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose'?

Documenta Praehistorica, 2023
An evolutionary approach on the study of the funerary systems in Late Prehistory allows recognizing diverse contexts of social crises in the north of Iberia. The analysis of the radio-chronological data that we have compiled indicates five phases of use—
Alfonso Alday-Ruiz, Ander Rodríguez-Lejarza, Juan Carlos Mejías-García   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The lithic assemblage from Lapa da Galinha (Alcanena, Portuguese Estremadura) and the “Cave Megalithism” phenomenon in the 4th and 3rd millennium BCE

Journal of Lithic Studies, 2019
The present work proposes to present the analysis results of the flaked stone artefacts from Lapa da Galinha, a cave necropolis, located in the Estremadura Limestone Massif, that is a classic example of the funerary practices of the 4th and 3rd ...
Daniel van Calker
doaj   +2 more sources

Hunter-gatherer genetic persistence at the onset of megalithism in western Iberia: New mitochondrial evidence from Mesolithic and Neolithic necropolises in central-southern Portugal

Quaternary International, 2023
António Faustino Carvalho, Eva Fernández-Domínguez, Eduardo Arroyo-Pardo   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

The Roquefort Megalithic Monument at Lugasson (Gironde) and the Question of Gallery Graves in Aquitaine (Abridged version)

Gallia Préhistoire
The Aquitaine gallery graves are located at the heart of one of the oldest centres of European megalithism, yet until recently, they were still little known and poorly dated.
Vincent Ard, Emmanuel Mens, Primitiva Bueno Ramirez, Rodrigo de Balbin Berhman, Philippe Gouézin, Antoine Laurent, Delphine Linard, Benjamin Marquebielle, Anne-Charlotte Philippe-Lelong, Angélique Polloni, Didier Poncet, Sofia Solanas, Hélène Vitté, François Baleux, Carine Calastrenc, Nicolas Poirier   +15 more
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Female sex bias in Iberian megalithic societies through bioarchaeology, aDNA and proteomics [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Uncertainties regarding traditional osteological methods in biological sex estimation can often be overcome with genomic and proteomic analyses. The combination of the three methodologies has been used for a better understanding of the gender-related ...
Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez, Margarita Sánchez Romero , Rosa Fregel, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, Fabian Kanz, Miriam Vílchez Suárez, Sonia Robles Carrasco, Paula Becerra Fuello, Alejandra C. Ordónez, Michael Wolf, Javier González Serrano, Lara Milesi García   +12 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Neolithic Archaeology at the Penedo dos Mouros Rock-Shelter (Gouveia, Portugal) and the Issue of Primitive Transhumance Practices in the Estrela Mountain Range

Zephyrus, 2017
Located in the foothills of the north-western sector of the Estrela Mountain (Beira Alta province in central-north Portugal), Penedo dos Mouros Rock-shelter revealed a succession of three distinct archaeological horizons datable to the evolved Early ...
António Faustino CARVALHO, Vera PEREIRA, Carlos DUARTE, Catarina TENTE   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Berbegirada bat Gipuzkoako megalitoen baitan [PDF]

Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia, 2023
Euskal Herrian zehar beti nahastu izan dira historia eta mitologia, baina herri-pentsaerak eskaintzen duen balioa ukaezina da. Identitate kulturalaren parte izanez ezinezkoa zaigu mendietan aurki ditzakegun ondare elementu askoren jatorriaren esanahia ...
Izaskun Egilegor Uranga
doaj   +1 more source