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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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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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Irish and Breton megalithism [PDF]
, 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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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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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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Premières données sur le matériel céramique de la nécropole mégalithique de Wanar (Sénégal)
Afrique Archéologie Arts, 2011 Excavations conducted since 2005 on the megalithic necropolis of Wanar, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, have already contributed to point out the complexity of funeral practices and of architectural remains.
Adrien Delvoye +8 more
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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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Le monumentalisme funéraire récent d’Éthiopie et la question des démocraties primitives
Afrique Archéologie Arts, 2018 In this paper I continue the reflections I presented at the meeting held at Strasbourg in 2015 concerning Ethiopian megalithism. Here I aim more particularly to investigate the issue of the relationships between the notion of primitive democracy and the ...
Alain Gallay
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