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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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A tour of Nancy Holt’s ruins: from entropic monuments to system works
Interfaces, 2023 This article explores the evolving meaning and nature of ruins in American artist Nancy Holt’s practice. A concern with entropy and monumentality was shared by many American artists of the 1960s and 1970s, but Holt developed an original artistic ...
Monica Manolescu
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Geo-material provenance and technological properties investigation in Copper Age menhirs production at Allai (central-western Sardinia, Italy) [PDF]
, 2017 During the 2nd millennium BC anthropomorphic menhirs belonging to a 3rd millennium BC sanctuary were reused as building material in the Arasseda Nuraghe (Sardinia, Italy).
Cannas, Carla +2 more
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Megaliths, monuments and materiality [PDF]
, 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.
Darvill, Timothy
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Sacred sites, contested rites/rights: contemporary pagan engagements with the past [PDF]
, 2004 Our Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/Rights project (www.sacredsites.org.uk) examines physical, spiritual and interpretative engagements of today’s Pagans with sacred sites, theorises ‘sacredness’, and explores the implications of pagan engagements with ...
Blain, J., Wallis, R. J.
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Ancient Asia, 2017 Megalithic tradition which is a worldwide phenomenon has been practiced by the Mizo society in the North-eastern part of India till recently. Expressions of thoughts and memories were incised on the megaliths.
. Lalhminghlua, Amrita Sarkar
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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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Ceramics and Society in Northern Europe [PDF]
, 2014 Neolithic pottery in Britain and Ireland was produced from shortly after 4000 BC. There are regional variations but overall a four phase chronology for the pottery is also suggested: First Neolithic, approximately 4000–3800 BC; Early Neolithic ...
Muller, Johannes, Peterson, Rick
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Open Geosciences, 2018 All over the world and for thousands of years, megaliths have been significant cultural elements, as well as sacred sites and places of power. Nowadays megaliths act as a strong magnet for tourists, who appreciate their history, esoterica and magic. Some
Krzemińska Alicja Edyta +5 more
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Internet Archaeology, 2002 The megalithic monuments of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern region of northern Germany are relatively well known from a conventional archaeological perspective, having attracted scientific attention for well over a century.
Brian Fagan
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