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Megalithism in Catalonia: A brief overview
Catalan Historical Review, 2021 The study of megalithism in Catalonia, especially southern Catalonia (south of the Pyrenees), has changed considerably in the past four decades (1980-2020) thanks to several extraordinarily important excavations. They include the dolmen in Els Reguers de
Josep Tarrús i Galter
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Virtual Archaeology Review, 2023 The cist tombs necropolis at Castillejos de Luna, in Sierra de Gibralmora-Sierra del Hacho (Pizarra, Málaga, Spain) was known from the graphic documentation and the grave goods of two tombs. New studies have documented nine burials.
Alejandro Muñoz-Muñoz +12 more
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THINKING MEGALITHISM BEYOND PREHISTORY: A BERQUEAN CRITIQUE OF THE IDEA OF REUSE
Estudos do Quaternário / Quaternary Studies, 2023 Resumo:Neste artigo, pretendemos pensar o Megalitismo para além da sua cronologia (pré-histórica). Para isso, torna-se necessário ultrapassar a reutilização como conceito.
Frederico Agosto
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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 +1 more
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Antiquités Africaines, 2018 The tomb-cromlech of Mezora is one of the most important but also enigmatic protohistoric monuments of ancient Morocco. It has been the object of several studies since the 19th century that have provided date and ...
Enrique Gozalbes Cravioto
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Insights on the changing dynamics of cemetery use in the neolithic and chalcolithic of southern Portugal. Radiocarbon dating of Lugar do Canto Cave (Santarém) [PDF]
, 2014 Lugar do Canto Cave is one of the most relevant Neolithic burial caves in Portugal given not only its extraordinary preservation conditions at the time of discovery but also the quality of the field record obtained during excavation. Its material culture
Carvalho, António, Luis Cardoso, Joao
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Le mégalithisme au Grassland (Cameroun occidental)
Afrique Archéologie Arts, 2009 Megalithism, which appeared in prehistoric times and has been extinct for years in various regions, is still practised in Cameroon. All over the world and in many domains, it presents on the one hand disturbing similarities, and on the other differences ...
Jean-Paul Notué
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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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Radiocarbon: An International Journal of Cosmogenic Isotope Research, 2022 This paper establishes the chronology of the El Pozuelo megalithic complex and discusses it in the context of other dolmens that have been dated in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula.
José Antonio Linares-Catela
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Megalithic Cemeteries and Land Use in the Yān Oya River Basin of Sri Lanka
Ancient Lanka, 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.
R. Dissanayake
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