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Detrital zircon–apatite fingerprinting challenges glacial transport of Stonehenge’s megaliths
Communications Earth & EnvironmentHow Stonehenge’s building blocks arrived on Salisbury Plain remains debated, with glacial and human transport mechanisms proposed. Here we test the possibility of Pleistocene glacial sediment input using grain-scale U–Pb fingerprinting of detrital zircon
Anthony J. I. Clarke +1 more
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Släktskap och neolitiska kulturer
Primitive Tider, 2012 Kinship and Neolithic cultures. As a result of their alkaline soil, due to limestone bedrock, the two Swedish islands of Öland and Gotland, are locations where bone is well preserved.
Per Persson
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Site, artefacts and landscape: Prehistoric Borg in-Nadur, Malta [PDF]
, 2011 Over the past five centuries various parts of the site of Borġ in- Nadur were documented, cleared and excavated. Borġ in-Nadur was originally grouped with other sites and believed to form part of the temple dedicated to Hercules mentioned in ancient ...
Bugeja, Anton
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Afrique Archéologie Arts, 2017 From the perspective of a general inventory of megalithism in Cameroon, an interdisciplinary team has been studying since 2006 the origins, forms and territorial distribution of these stone structures.
Narcisse Santores Tchandeu +1 more
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L'origine des mégalithes du Fond de Quarreux (Ardenne, Belgique) [PDF]
, 2012 Une étude de la répartition de mégalithes dans la vallée de l’Amblève à sa traversée des quartzites d’âge Cambrien de la Formation de La Venne à l’extrémité occidentale de la crête de la Vecquée a été réalisée.
Collard, Sébastien +4 more
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Technology and raw material sources of pottery from Mulyosari Site based on petrographic analysis
Berkala Arkeologi, 2021 Since the research in 2018 until 2019, pottery sherds are the most dominant artifact from Mulyosari megalithic site amongst other. Hence, analysis conducted towards pottery directly associated with the megaliths are important.
Putri Novita Taniardi +3 more
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Beowulf and archaeology: Megaliths imagined and encountered in early medieval Europe [PDF]
, 2014 This is the author's version of a book chapter published in The lives of prehistoric monuments in Iron Age, Roman and medieval Europe by Oxford University Press, 2015.The dragon’s lair in the epic Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf has been widely interpreted to ...
Williams, Howard
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The megalithic station of the Rioja Alavesa: chronology, origins and utilisation cycles
Zephyrus, 2013 The dolmenic station of the Rioja Alavesa has been, since its discovery, excavation and musealization, a reference point for Basque megalithic research.
Javier FERNÁNDEZ-ERASO +1 more
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'Not just bones': a cultural and political history of mass grave exhumations in Spain [PDF]
, 2013 In this paper I analyze the exhumations of mass graves of the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) and dictatorship (1939–75) as spaces where processes of attribution of meaning take place, and I’ll propose a provisional thesis on how cultural and political ...
Colaert, Lore
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Social Sciences and Humanities OpenArchaeological artifacts are the tangible remains of human workmanship from the past. In many cultures, these are surrounded by myths and social memories that shape their perceived meaning, yet scholarly documentation of these folded interpretations is ...
Jitendra Kumar
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