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Le mégalithisme au Grassland (Cameroun occidental)

open access: yesAfrique 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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A Review of Monumental Past: The Life-histories of Megalithic Monuments in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany)

open access: yesInternet 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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Megaliths galore [PDF]

open access: yes, 1976
The Inventaire des mPgalithes de la France- Rdgion Parisienne is the fourth in the French series which began with Cordier's inventory of Indre-et-Loire (1963) and continued with Gruet's inventory of Maine-et-Loire (1967) and Despride and Leymarios's ...
Glyn Daniel
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Extensions territoriales et interprétations fonctionnelles des mégalithes chez les Ti-bolgui (Mambay) de l’arrondissement de Bibémi au Nord-Cameroun [PDF]

open access: yesVestiges: Traces of Record, 2022
Les récentes recherches faites par N.S. Tchandeu et A. Mezop Temgoua-Noumissing inventorient les foyers mégalithiques au Cameroun. Dans ce pays, le mégalithisme se manifeste par la présence des pierres débout ou plantées, en alignements, amassées ...
Abdou Saïdou, Sambo Hassimi
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Archéologie indienne et mouvement migratoire

open access: yesLes Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2011
This article draws a relation between the works undertaken by the members of the Asiatic Society of Bengal at the end of the 18th century and the later development of Indian archaeology, through the promotion of an interpretive model grounded on ...
Anne-Julie Etter
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East Anglian early Neolithic monument burial linked to contemporary Megaliths. [PDF]

open access: yesAnn Hum Biol, 2019
In the fourth millennium BCE a cultural phenomenon of monumental burial structures spread along the Atlantic façade. Megalithic burials have been targeted for aDNA analyses, but a gap remains in East Anglia, where Neolithic structures were generally ...
Scheib CL   +11 more
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Tarhatinsky megalytic complex: the petroglyphs, observed are astronomical phenomena and shadow of the megaliths [PDF]

open access: yesArchaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2014
In this article, the results of recent studies of the Tarhatinsky megalithic complex (Gorny Altai, Kosh-Agach region) are presented. During 2010-2012, previously unpublished petroglyphic figures were copied and geodetic measurements were carried out, as ...
Matochkin, E.P., Gienko, E,G.
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The cultural landscape of megalithic tombs in Denmark, reconstructed by soil pollen analysis

open access: yesDanish Journal of Archaeology, 2012
Forty-four pollen spectra from 25 megalithic tombs (5 dolmens and 20 passage graves) in eastern and northern Denmark reveal a highly varied landscape with remains of woodland, coppice woods or secondary woodland and open areas of grass and herb ...
†Svend Th. Andersen
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From Highlands to Henge: Refining the Provenance and Transport Pathways of Stonehenge's Altar Stone

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Altar Stone, the 6000 kg central sandstone megalith at Stonehenge in southern England, is suggested to have originated from the Orcadian Basin in northeast Scotland, some 700 km away. However, its source location within this large basin remains unresolved and its mode of transport uncertain.
Anthony J. I. Clarke   +8 more
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Passage graves, statues and standing stones: megaliths and social identities in prehistoric Scotland and Ireland

open access: yesJournal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2010
This paper contrasts two ways of thinking about the passage graves of Scotland and Ireland and the relationships between them. The first considers their characteristic structure in terms of architectural style, chronology and distribution.
Richard Bradley
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