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Reconstructing prehistoric lifeways using multi-Isotope analyses of human enamel, dentine, and bone from Legaire Sur, Spain. [PDF]
PLoS ONEMegalithism 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 +10 more
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Female sex bias in Iberian megalithic societies through bioarchaeology, aDNA and proteomics [PDF]
Scientific ReportsUncertainties 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 +12 more
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Ensayo de reconstrucción virtual de un túmulo funerario: El túmulo del Mortórum (Cabanes, Castellón) [PDF]
Virtual Archaeology Review, 2012 We presents a virtual reconstruction of the megalithic tomb found near of Tossal del Mortórum (Cabanes, Castellón) dated on the second millennium BC. The structure discovered in 2005 was plundered at an undetermined moment, and their conservation status ...
Jose Luján Valderrama +1 more
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Le site du Monte Revincu : nouvelles données sur un village néolithique moyen du nord de la Corse
, 2008 National audienceThe Neolithic site of Monte Revincu is located in the north of Corsica, between Bastia (30 km west) and the “Agriates desert” (east). The researches yielded fifty installations structured with domestic or funerary vocation, spread on 10 ...
Poupeau, Gérard +17 more
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Megalithic Cemeteries and Land Use in the Yān Oya River Basin of Sri Lanka [PDF]
, 2022 Megalithism is a cultural phenomenon associated with mortuary rituals. Societies that practise megalithism construct burials and memorials using stone slabs in memory of the dead as a form of ancestor worship.
Dissanayake, Ranjith Bandara
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A Geographical Dataset Describing the Complexity of the Gor River Megalithic Landscape
Journal of Open Archaeology Data, 2023 This paper presents the data that have served as the basis for the study of the spatial patterns of the megaliths of the Gor River Valley (Granada, Spain) as part of a PhD dissertation presented in July 2023 at the University of Granada. This complex, of
Carolina Cabrero González +4 more
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Afrique Archéologie Arts, 2017 From the perspective of a general inventory of megalithism in Cameroon, an interdisciplinary team has been studying since 2006 the origins, forms and territorial distribution of these stone structures.
Narcisse Santores Tchandeu +1 more
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, 2014 International audienceOn the Atlantic façade, megaliths are a characteristic of Brittany in general, especially of the Morbihan area, but they can also be found across the Channel, in Ireland and the other Celtic countries east of the Irish Sea, and at ...
Boucherit, Gilles
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Barnenez-ar-Zant et ses symboles
La Bretagne Linguistique, 1991 On the Barnenez cairn, it is possible to distinguish the characteristics of three great universal archetypes. Firstly, the cosmogony of the builders, with a symbolism based on a series of oppositions such as North/South, dark/light or hot/cold.
Pierre Gouletquer
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Afrique Archéologie Arts, 2022 The megaliths of Senegal and The Gambia comprise nearly 30,000 erected stones recorded over a surface of around 30,000 km², mainly in the northern basin of the Gambia River.
Luc Laporte +10 more
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