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In Search of Human Remains in the Layers of a Passage Tomb: The Combination of ICP-MS, Fluorescence (XRF) and SEM Methods at the Cobertoria Dolmen (Salas, Asturias, Spain)

open access: yesEspacio, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Des pierres phalloïdes par milliers en Éthiopie méridionale

open access: yesAfrique 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
doaj   +1 more source

Concept of Megalithism in the 21 st Century Archaeology of India

open access: yes, 2017
Megalithism is a death phenomenon, which starts from Neolithic period onwards and continues up to the historical period through the Bronze Age. It spreads widely almost all the parts during the Neolithic period.
P. B. Devi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Files de pierres dressées dans le sud de l'Éthiopie et au nord du Kenya

open access: yesAfrique 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
doaj   +1 more source

Premières données sur le matériel céramique de la nécropole mégalithique de Wanar (Sénégal)

open access: yesAfrique 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
doaj   +1 more source

Le monumentalisme funéraire récent d’Éthiopie et la question des démocraties primitives

open access: yesAfrique 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
doaj   +1 more source

Rituals and death cults in recent prehistory in Central Portugal (Alto Ribatejo)

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2010
The present paper aims to give a general outline of new data that contributes to a better understanding of cults and rituals in Alto Ribatejo, central Portugal, during recent prehistory.
Alexandra Figueiredo
doaj   +1 more source

Multi‐Method Geophysical Surveys Between and Around the Kerlescan and the Manio Megalithic Alignments in Carnac (Morbihan, France)

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Carnac alignments in Morbihan (France) are among the most famous Neolithic sites of the world. Paradoxically, they have benefited little from a thorough renewal of archaeological data over the past century. There are many reasons for this, but it is mainly because the site has been regarded more as a monument to visit and protect than as ...
Guillaume Bruniaux   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A two-stage economic evolution at the inception of farming in Central Portugal. Preliminary examination of possible causes and consequences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Notwithstanding their scarcity and uneven distribution, zooarchaeological and stable isotope data sets on the Early and Middle Neolithic (5500-3200 cal BC) in the region of Estremadura in Central Portugal strongly suggest that two succeeding stages in ...
Carvalho, AF
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Necrópole Altomedieval da Coudelaria de Alter [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Neste texto apresentam-se os resultados dos trabalhos arqueológicos desenvolvidos nesta ...
Oliveira, Jorge de
core   +1 more source

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