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Opacité sémantique et discontinuité de l’information archéologique
La Bretagne Linguistique, 1990 By taking the example of the megalithic cairn of Barnenez, we can show how the reference to universal models allows us, not to cross the semantic opacity (M. Eliade) of the archaeological object, but to structure our ignorance.
Pierre Gouletquer
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Le site mégalithique de Wanar (Sénégal)
Afrique Archéologie Arts, 2009 This article presents the results of the first excavations conducted on the World Heritage megalithic site of Wanar, which are part of a new program of scientific cooperation between France and Senegal (2008-2011).
Luc Laporte +8 more
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Des pierres phalloïdes par milliers en Éthiopie méridionale
Afrique Archéologie Arts, 2018 This article aims to revisit the question of phallic stelae erected on the Rift Valley foothills in Sidama, Gedeo and Guji zones. Results from R. Joussaume excavations tend to suggest these archeological sites could be the consequence of the accumulation
Anne-Lise Goujon
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Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie I, Prehistoria y Arqueología, 2023 This paper summarises the results of the first analytical investigation of the soil chemistry of Asturian Megalithism, an approach which is essential, due to the scarcity of materials conserved in the burial areas.
Fernando R. del Cueto +3 more
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Megalithic genesis: construction of a cultural identity for better goods circulation
, 2022 Megaliths in the world, from Prehistory to history are the work of communities capable of generating, managing and commercializing merchandise. In the Near and Middle East, the appearance of tower tombs in the 4th millennium BCE is a particularly ...
Steimer, Tara
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Rethinking Megalithism as Heterotopia: Empirical Insights from Alentejo (Portugal) [PDF]
Munibe Antropologia-ArkeologiaThis 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
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Megaliths, Monuments, and Materiality [PDF]
Journal of Neolithic Archaeology, 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. Many so-called megalithic monuments embody other carefully selected materials in their construction, including turf, soil, rubble, and ...
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Earthern architectures and megalithism: the Soto monument (Senegal)
, 2022 Earthern architectures and megalithism: the Soto monument (Senegal)
ONFRAY, Marylise +25 more
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R code and radiocarbon dates to reproduce figures and results of our paper "Population dynamics ..."
, 2020 R Codes and dataset to reproduce figures and results of the paper Population dynamics during the Neolithic transition and the onset of megalithism in Portugal according to summed probability distribution of radiocarbon determinations.
Salvador Pardo-Gordó +3 more
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Files de pierres dressées dans le sud de l'Éthiopie et au nord du Kenya
Afrique Archéologie Arts, 2013 Field researches of two American teams in the 1970s and 2000s have revealed several sites with lines of standing stones near Lake Turkana in the North of Kenya.
Roger Joussaume
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