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Dichtezentren und lokale Gruppierungen - Eine Karte zu den Großsteingräbern Mittel- und Nordeuropas
Journal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2010 Until today a detailed mapping of the megalithic structures from the 4th millenium BC in northern Europe seems a desideratum. The DFG-Priority Program 1400 “Early Monumentality and Social Differentiation” is currently working on the Neolithic of the ...
Barbara Fritsch +7 more
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The provenance of the stones in the Menga dolmen reveals one of the greatest engineering feats of the Neolithic. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2023 Rodríguez JAL +9 more
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Megalith of the Wharton's Duct: Review of Literature and a Case Report
Acta Odontologica TurcicaSialolithiasis, the most common disorder affecting salivary glands, occurs when calcified formations obstruct the ducts or glands. Typically, these formations, known as sialoliths, measure between 5 and 10 mm; however, those exceeding 15 mm are ...
Sercan Küçükkurt
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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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Southern African Field ArchaeologyWe examined megalithic structures in the Lake Eyasi Basin of northern Tanzania to establish the provenance of the construction materials, understand the reasons for the use of particular raw material options and means of transport, as well as to ...
Albert Samwel Mjandwa +2 more
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Megalithic people, Megalithic missionaries : the history of an idea. [PDF]
, 2018 The idea that the megalithic monuments of western and northern Europe were built by a specific group of people who travelled long distances along the Atlantic seaways was first proposed in the 18th century. It remained a dominant concept among 19th century antiquarians and archaeologists and became a feature of diffusionist models of Neolithic cultural
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Time and Stone: the Emergence and Development of Megaliths and Megalithic Societies in Europe
, 2017 This analysis is concerned with the dating of megaliths in Europe and is based on 2410 available radiocarbon results from pre-megalithic and megalithic sites, and to the megaliths contemporaneous contexts and the application of a Bayesian statistical ...
Schulz Paulsson, Bettina,
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Remapping the Senegambian megaliths: Beyond the culture area paradigm
AfriquesBetween 1969 and 1982, Victor Martin and Charles Becker led a series of reconnaissance missions to document thousands of sites for their Inventaire des Sites Protohistoriques de la Sénégambie.
Cameron Gokee +3 more
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Societies in balance: Monumentality and feasting activities among southern Naga communities, Northeast India. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 Wunderlich M +4 more
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Documenta Praehistorica, 2020 Between the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, António dos Santos Rocha excavated several prehistoric megalithic monuments in the region of Figueira da Foz (Portugal). Some of them revealed human bones, albeit very disturbed and fragmented, which ended up forgotten in the Municipal Museum of Santos Rocha (Figueira da Foz), as did the ...
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