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The cultural landscape of megalithic tombs in Denmark, reconstructed by soil pollen analysis
Danish 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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THE SYMBOLISM OF STONES AND MEGALITHS IN THE BAMENDA-TIKAR FONDOMS OF CAMEROON
International Journal of Education and Social Science Research, 2020 A megalith is a large stone, sometimes forming part of a group or circle, thought to have been important to people in the Stone Age. A stone can mean different things and have varied functions to different people in the world in general and to Africans ...
Exodus Tikere Moffor
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Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Upland farming in Europe is frequently assumed to have been limited and precarious, despite relict spade‐dug ridges providing firm evidence of past crop growing. Direct evidence for crop types in post‑Medieval to Modern (~since 1500 CE) uplands is rare; yet, in Ireland, relict spade‐dug ridges that date to this period are commonly interpreted ...
Helen Essell, Gill Plunkett
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Journal 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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CLINICAL DENTISTRYSialolithiasis refers to the formation of stones / calcification in the salivary glands or in their ductal systems leading to obstruction of salivary outflow.
B. Kiran +3 more
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Significant Far‐Right Challenges to Australian Society? The XYZ and AustraliaOne
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars who analyse the Australian far‐right from a criminological or security studies perspective propose that activists and groups pose ‘political’ challenges to Australian society. This paper examines the far‐right news website The XYZ and the AustraliaOne political party, and argues that claims that the far‐right may normalise ...
Timothy Lynch
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Monuments and monumentality: the cosmological model of the world of megaliths
Documenta Praehistorica, 2010 Neolithic monuments are physical and conceptual expressions of ideas about the nature of the world inhabited by early north European farmers. This contribution explores the complex symbolism encoded in megalithic architecture, and the socio-ritual ...
Magdalena S. Midgley
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study details the analysis of an assemblage of Funnel Beaker pottery from Wanna in Northern Germany investigated using petrographic, geochemical, and organic residue analyses. The analyses revealed specialized production of pottery vessels for funerary contexts, but that domestic and funerary pottery were used intensively to process ...
I. L. Wiltshire +4 more
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Journal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2019 In the context of an Indian and German workshop and a Graduate School course of scholars interested in megaliths and societies, a joint publication of contributions was planned as a sign of cooperative work on monuments and societies both in ...
Wiebke Kirleis +3 more
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Les mégalithes du Sénégal et de la Gambie dans leur contexte régional
Afrique Archéologie Arts, 2017 Stone architectures of the Senegambian megalithism have long been considered as an autonomous entity in a sector of the African continent where adobe constructions are traditionally favoured.
Luc Laporte +16 more
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