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Astronomical features of Ural megalithic monuments orientation [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2014 There is a presence of archaeological monuments of the early and middle Holocene in the middle Trans-Urals, which may be associated with the act of sky survey, determined by this specific landscape.
Viktorova, V.D., Anisimov, N.P.
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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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Landscape Online, 2022 Archaeological landscapes are crucial to understanding the evolution, form and meaning of cultural landscape. This paper presents a complex analysis of the archaeological landscape and its temporal and spatial changes, with particular reference to the ...
Anna Żemła-Siesicka
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GIANT STONE BUILDINGS (I) - MEGALITHIC PREHISTORIC BUILDINGS - DIVISION, ORIGIN AND SPREAD [PDF]
e-Zbornik. Elektronički Zbornik Radova Građevinskog Fakulteta, 2022 Giant stone structures all over the world, with their millennia-old age, size, durability, construction method that surpasses the technical capabilities of ancient cultures, but also with a mysterious purpose, have aroused the interest of experts and the
Krešimir Šaravanja +2 more
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Making Megaliths: Shifting and Unstable Stones in the Neolithic of the Avebury Landscape [PDF]
, 2016 This paper focuses upon the web of practices and transformations bound up in the extraction and movement of megaliths during the Neolithic of southern Britain.
Mark Gillings (7629293) +1 more
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Megalithic tradition associated with agricultural ritual
Documenta Praehistorica, 2023 The Tiwa community is one of the autochthonous communities of Northeast India. An important aspect of Tiwa culture is the erection of stone monuments during the celebration of Chongkhong Phuja. This ceremony is performed before the commencement of their
Raktim Patar, Manjil Hazarika
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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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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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Picturing Megaliths in Twentieth- Century Swedish Archaeology
Current Swedish Archaeology, 2000 ln this paper I will begin a discussion about the ways in which megaliths appear in archaeological images. My discussion of examples is not comprehensive and the selection of images far from complete, but I hope nevertheless to present some key elements
Gustav Wollentz
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Arheologia Moldovei, 2016 Keywords: Megaliths, sanctuaries, ethnoarchaeology, ethnoreligion. Includes summary in English.
Gheorghe Lazarovici +3 more
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