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Sánchez-Quinto, Federico, Helena Malmström, Magdalena Fraser, Linus Girdland-Flink, Emma M. Svensson, Luciana G. Simões, Robert George, et al. "Megalithic tombs in western and northern Neolithic Europe were linked to a kindred society." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 19 (April 15, 2019): 9469–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1818037116.

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Paleogenomic and archaeological studies show that Neolithic lifeways spread from the Fertile Crescent into Europe around 9000 BCE, reaching northwestern Europe by 4000 BCE. Starting around 4500 BCE, a new phenomenon of constructing megalithic monuments, particularly for funerary practices, emerged along the Atlantic façade. While it has been suggested that the emergence of megaliths was associated with the territories of farming communities, the origin and social structure of the groups that erected them has remained largely unknown. We generated genome sequence data from human remains, corresponding to 24 individuals from five megalithic burial sites, encompassing the widespread tradition of megalithic construction in northern and western Europe, and analyzed our results in relation to the existing European paleogenomic data. The various individuals buried in megaliths show genetic affinities with local farming groups within their different chronological contexts. Individuals buried in megaliths display (past) admixture with local hunter-gatherers, similar to that seen in other Neolithic individuals in Europe. In relation to the tomb populations, we find significantly more males than females buried in the megaliths of the British Isles. The genetic data show close kin relationships among the individuals buried within the megaliths, and for the Irish megaliths, we found a kin relation between individuals buried in different megaliths. We also see paternal continuity through time, including the same Y-chromosome haplotypes reoccurring. These observations suggest that the investigated funerary monuments were associated with patrilineal kindred groups. Our genomic investigation provides insight into the people associated with this long-standing megalith funerary tradition, including their social dynamics.
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Boado, Felipe Criado, and Ramon Fabregas Valcarce. "The megalithic phenomenon of northwest Spain: main trends." Antiquity 63, no. 241 (December 1989): 682–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00076821.

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What is one to do with megaliths, now that their classification into evolutionary sequences – the mainstay of megalithic study over so many years – seems to offer insufficient insights? Yet in some regions of Europe the great stone monuments provide the major physical evidence from their period. Here is a study of one of the megalithic zones, which seeks to find new insights by asking new kinds of questions.
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Krzemińska, Alicja Edyta, Anna Dzikowska, Anna Danuta Zaręba, Katarzyna Rozalia Jarosz, Krzysztof Widawski, and Janusz Stanisław Łach. "The Significance of Megalithic Monuments in the Process of Place Identity Creation and in Tourism Development." Open Geosciences 10, no. 1 (September 18, 2018): 504–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/geo-2018-0040.

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Abstract 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 megaliths were used for astronomical observations, so vital to maintain the continuity of harvest and crop. Other megalithic constructions were erected for funerary purposes, and served as individual or collective burial chambers. Megalithic structures are usually referred to as belonging to the European Neolithic but it has to be stressed that some megalithic constructions date back to the Bronze Age, and some were also built on other continents. Megaliths are a vital element of landscape and for historical reasons they are a sui generis monument, commemorating prehistorical cultures. At the same time, along with the remaining elements of the natural and cultural environment, they create a unique image of place identity, attracting large numbers of tourists. Interestingly, despite the strong attraction exercised by megaliths, there are still many places where tourism does not develop as rapidly as might be assumed. For the above-mentioned reasons, a comparative analysis of several megalithic sites has been conducted in Poland, Sweden, Portugal and Denmark. The following elements have been analysed: the megaliths immediate surroundings, the existing and planned or under-construction tourist and communication infrastructure, as well as architectural and spatial technical solutions and development. Also the key negative and positive elements have been defined which influence the tourist potential of the places in question, and constitute the tourism attractiveness factors of a region.
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Matuszewska, Agnieszka, and Marek Schiller. "Is It Just the Location? Visibility Analyses of the West Pomeranian Megaliths of the Funnel Beaker Culture." Open Archaeology 8, no. 1 (January 1, 2022): 402–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opar-2022-0236.

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Abstract The article attempts to apply visibility analyses to megalithic tombs of the Funnel Beaker Culture in the Pyrzyce Plain in north-western Poland. The analyses were carried out on 23 megalithic monuments in order to answer the questions whether the sites chosen by the builders of the Funnel Beaker Culture for the construction of their monumental megalithic tombs were optimal in terms of visibility and whether there is evidence that the megalithic cemeteries may have been constructed with the aim of establishing visual contact with each other and between settlements. Visibility analyses were carried out on a hypothetical landscape model that did not include flora such as forests, grasses or other obstacles in the terrain other than relief, in order to simulate an “open” landscape type. The estimation of parameters such as the visibility and discernibility of megalithic tombs proved that the builders of the Funnel Beaker Culture may indeed have chosen terrain-exposed sites for megaliths. However, other sites have been found that seem to be much more optimal in terms of visibility and terrain exposure than the present ones. Visibility analyses of megalithic cemeteries among themselves did not reveal significant “chains” of visual connections, even though they were located in exposed landscape areas. Investigations of the visual connections between megalithic cemeteries and known settlements of the Funnel Beaker Culture suggested possible visual contacts. The results of these analyses might suggest that a visual connection between cemeteries and settlements could be crucial for the megalithic builders, while it could be almost completely irrelevant between cemeteries.
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Roughley, Corinne, Andrew Sherratt, and Colin Shell. "Past records, new views: Carnac 1830–2000." Antiquity 76, no. 291 (March 2002): 218–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00090013.

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The megalithic monuments of Carnac, Brittany, in the Département of the Morbihan, are amongst the most farnous in France. indeed in the world. This region has not only the densest conccntration of such sites in Europe but also retained its importance as a centre of monument-building from the late 5th to the :jrd millennium FK:, giving it a unique significance in the study of Neolithic landscapes (Sherratt 1990; 1998). Its menhirs, stone alignments, and megalithic tombs have attracted the attention of scholars since the 18th century, and there is thus an unusually full record, both written and pictorial, of the nature of these monuments as they were perceived over 300 years.
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González García, A. César, Felipe Criado-Boado, and Benito Vilas Estévez. "Megalithic Skyscapes in Galicia." Culture and Cosmos 21, no. 1 and 2 (2017): 87–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.46472/cc.01221.0211.

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We present the results of our analysis of two singular Neolithic monuments and two prominent megalithic groups in Galicia. The two singular monuments are the dolmen of Dombate (Baio, Coruña county), perhaps the largest megalithic chamber in Galicia (or at least the most investigated and well-known) that houses an elaborate decorative program with engravings and paintings, and Forno dos Mouros (Bocelo mountains, Coruña county), also housing paintings and belonging to a bigger group aligned along an historical path following the mountain ridge. Both chambers house interesting illumination effects. The group analysis concerns the Barbanza (Coruña county) and Leboreiro, (Ourense county and borderland with Portugal) necropoleis. There, we find that apart from chamber orientation, location and spatial relations of the monuments within the landscape, the monuments incorporate skyscape associations that complemented and dialogued with that of the chamber orientations. Besides, if the particular directions that we find are related to the movements of the sun and/or moon they may indicate the appropriate ritual time for the dead. Of course, skyscape is not the only or the main factor to explain the location of the mounds within the necropolis but are part of a complex system of relations making those monuments part of a cultural landscape. When taking all factors into consideration a complex picture emerges where we can env
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Yondri, Lutfi. "MONUMEN MEGALITIK DAN TRANSPORTASI BAHANNYA: Analisis Terhadap Beberapa Faktor Yang Berpengaruh." Berkala Arkeologi 29, no. 1 (May 17, 2009): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.30883/jba.v29i1.367.

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Megalithic monuments in Nusantara are generally found on plateaus, for example on hill tops, mountain slopes, and other remote locations. A big question often raised on how the prehistoric people could move such huge and heavy boulders to build their monuments. It is assumed that to build those megalithic monuments, various factors were involved, i.e. the landscape, technology, and leaderships as well.
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González García, A. César, Felipe Criado-Boado, and Benito Vilas Estévez. "Megalithic Skyscapes in Galicia." Culture and Cosmos 21, no. 0102 (October 2017): 87–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.46472/cc.01221.0235.

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We present the results of our analysis of two singular Neolithic monuments and two prominent megalithic groups in Galicia. The two singular monuments are the dolmen of Dombate (Baio, Coruña county), perhaps the largest megalithic chamber in Galicia (or at least the most investigated and well-known) that houses an elaborate decorative program with engravings and paintings, and Forno dos Mouros (Bocelo mountains, Coruña county), also housing paintings and belonging to a bigger group aligned along an historical path following the mountain ridge. Both chambers house interesting illumination effects. The group analysis concerns the Barbanza (Coruña county) and Leboreiro, (Ourense county and borderland with Portugal) necropoleis. There, we find that apart from chamber orientation, location and spatial relations of the monuments within the landscape, the monuments incorporate skyscape associations that complemented and dialogued with that of the chamber orientations. Besides, if the particular directions that we find are related to the movements of the sun and/or moon they may indicate the appropriate ritual time for the dead. Of course, skyscape is not the only or the main factor to explain the location of the mounds within the necropolis but are part of a complex system of relations making those monuments part of a cultural landscape. When taking all factors into consideration a complex picture emerges where we can envisage the ways of construction of social time and space in the megalithic period.
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Clynes, Frances. "The Role of Solar Deities in Irish Megalithic Monuments." Culture and Cosmos 24, no. 0102 (October 2020): 9–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.46472/cc.1224.0203.

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In the great body of Irish myths that became part of an oral tradition and would, much later, be documented and preserved, associations can be found between Sun gods and solar heroes and the great Neolithic monuments of Ireland, including Newgrange, the most well-known monument in the large complex of passage tombs in the valley of the Boyne River that today is known as the World Heritage Site, Brú na Bóinne. In all four cycles of Irish mythology, from the Tuatha De Danaan of the Mythological Cycle to the kings of Tara in the Historical Cycle, repeated mention is made of Brú na Bóinne, the home of the Sun gods, Dagda and Lugh, and the place of the conception and birth of the warrior hero, Cú Chulainn. This chapter examines the roles the monuments played in the myths and their strong association with mythological solar figures and asks if the myths can tell us something about the meaning the monuments held for people from different periods of time.
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Saletta, Morgan. "Astronomy, Illumination and Heritage: the Arles-Fontvieille megalithic monuments and their implications for archaeoastronomy and world heritage." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 11, A29A (August 2015): 100–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921316002489.

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The Arles-Fontvieille monuments, or hypogées, have long had a special place in megalithic studies. Their unique architecture, blending “Atlantic” megalithic construction with subterranean rock-cut architecture more commonly found in the Mediterranean, and their size, especially that of the Grotte de Cordes, place them among the most important monuments in France and Europe (Daniel 1960, Guilaine 1998, Sauzade 1999, Hoskin 2001, Saletta 2014). My discovery and interpretation of seasonal light and shadow hierophanies (Saletta 2011, 2014)) within the Arles-Fontvieille monuments has important implications for identifying astronomically related Outstanding Universal Value for late prehistoric European monuments.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Megalithic monuments"

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Holtorf, Cornelius. "Monumental past : interpreting the meanings of ancient monuments in later prehistoric Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany)." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683308.

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Ogburn, Scott A. "Bryn Myrrdin : a temple in time /." Thesis, This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07282008-135820/.

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Fraser, Shannon Marguerite. "Physical, social and intellectual landscapes in the Neolithic contextualizing Scottish and Irish Megalithic architecture /." Thesis, Connect to e-thesis, 1996. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/787/.

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Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 1996.
BLL : DX192053. Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Faculty of Art, Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow, 1996. Includes bibliographical references. Print copy also available.
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Bestley, Nicola. "Material culture and cosmology : megalithic monuments and ritual practice in the Neolithic of north-west Europe." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272337.

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Beckett, J. F. "Death and burial on the Burren : a taphonomic study of three megalithic monuments in County Clare, Ireland." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.596513.

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Burial is a highly symbolic activity through which concepts of the world are reflected in the representation and treatment of human remains. While mortuary studies in archaeology and anthropology have had a long history, our understanding of Neolithic societies through mortuary analyses is lacking. This research is a regional comparison of the taphonomy of three megalithic monuments in the Burren, County Clare, Ireland. Through an integration of taphonomy, bioarchaeology, and social archaeological theory, the burial practices of earlier Neolithic societies in Ireland were assessed to understand how societies used burial in socially significant ways. These methods further our understandings of these societies by revealing who, how many, and what types of people were buried here, as well as determine the history of the bones themselves. Finally, what types of burial rites took place and the treatment/manipulation of the dead is also understood through such integration. A comparison of burial practices also lessens the gap in our knowledge of the nature of social interactions and relationships on the Burren. The Parknabinnia chambered tomb, Poulnabrone portal tomb, and Poulawack Linkardstown-type cairn are located within 3 kilometres of each other, and date to contemporary periods. The osteology and bioarchaeology reveal very similar people were buried in these monuments. Yet, there are three morphologically different monuments, set into different landscapes. The taphonomic evidence further shows some differences in burial practices were taking place at these sites. However, it is important that we do not read differences in burial practices or typology to mean different cultures or people, as this research presents a very clear case for the availability of a variety of practices for even a single Neolithic society. A study of burial practices then can further inform about meaning and cultural practice during the Neolithic.
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Fisher, David. "Employing 3-dimensional computer simulation to examine the archaeoastronomy of Scottish megalithic sites : the implication of plate tectonics and isostasis." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683082.

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Jeffrey, Stuart. "Three dimensional modelling of Scottish early medieval sculpted stones." Thesis, Connect to electronic version, 2003. http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/theses/jeffrey%5F2004/index.cfm.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Glasgow, 2003.
Accompanied by CD-ROM. Ph. D. thesis submitted to the Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow, 2003. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.
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Mullane, Elizabeth Brownell. "Megaliths, mounds, and monuments applying self-organizing theory to ancient human systems /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1997751651&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Adamsson, Marcus. "Odödliga monument : Återanvändning av megalitgravar." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-325166.

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Megalithic tombs that originally date back to the early to mid-neolithic are the oldest preserved monument that can be found in Scandinavia. The act of raising big stone structures for the dead shows that the monuments where build to last through time. Prehistoric people from different time periods have reused these monuments on different locations all over Europe. This paper focuses on the monuments in Sweden and it shows that the reuse of megalithic monuments appears in all regions where these monuments can be found. The different reasons to why people wanted to reuse these monuments are also discussed. The paper proposes that the reasons are religious and political. Political the monuments can give inheritance rights which granted land rights among other things.
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Linares, Catela José Antonio. "El Megalitismo en el sur de la Península Ibérica : arquitectura, construcción y usos de los monumentos del área de Huelva, Andalucía occidental." Thesis, Rennes 1, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017REN1S161.

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La région de Huelva se démarque par la grande variabilité architecturale et par la singularité des monuments mégalithiques. L’étude de la région permet d'établir une séquence architecturale et une temporalité du Néolithique Récent jusqu’à l'Ancien Âge de Bronze. Pour cela, la recherche se concentre sur l'étude de trois domaines de monuments: l'architecture, la construction et les usages (funéraires, rituels et territoriaux). L'identification et la caractérisation des projets architecturaux des sites analysés (Los Llanetes et El Seminario) a été réalisée à travers une méthodologie orientée vers la connaissance des chantiers de construction, des architectures et des diachronies. La séquence architecturale de l'Andalousie occidentale comprend une temporalité du début du IVème au début du IIème millénaire av. n.è. Au cours de cette chronologie, plusieurs modèles de monuments et de rituels funéraires ont été érigés avec une variété de techniques constructives, représentant l'existence de styles régionaux ou de spécialisations locales selon les différents groupes sociaux. A titre de synthèse, la séquence régionale met en évidence le processus suivant : La construction des premiers dolmens au début du IVème millénaire cal. av. n.è, en témoignent les monuments à chambre ovale-allongée de Los Llanetes, bâtis le c. 3950-3750 cal av. n.è. Dans le sud de la péninsule, c. 3800 cal av. n., fait irruption le collectivisme funéraire comme un rituel de la mort, en développant des sépultures en dolmens à chambres simples, des tombes proto-mégalithiques, des caves-nécropoles ou des grottes sépulcrales ; La formation des dolmens à chambre-allongée, c. 3750-3650 cal av. n.è, de deux manières: a) des modèles ex novo; b) par des réaménagements et des transformations de monuments anciens, cas de Los Llanetes. La réitération de projets architecturaux similaires conditionnerait le développement de monuments allongés, comme l'a confirmé le dolmen 4 d'El Pozuelo, c. 3650-3200 cal av. n.è. Des caractéristiques et des formules architecturales similaires pourraient être présentées dans les «allées couvertes» d'Andalousie, construites pendant les siècles centraux et la seconde moitié du IVème millénaire av. n.è. ; Les dolmens à chambres doubles de Los Llanetes ont été construits sur les monuments précédents, c. 3650-3200 cal av. n.è, parallèle aux dolmens à couloir et aux structures allongées des autres zones. Les monuments à chambres multiples (El Pozuelo, Mesa de Las Huecas, Los Gabrieles, etc.) ont dû présenter des processus de transformation équivalents, étant des modèles uniques, particuliers et exclusifs de la région de Huelva et des zones environnantes ; Dans les différents monuments dolmeniques, des projets de monumentalisation ont été réalisés et des structures ont été aménagées dans les atriums et les espaces extérieurs selon les nouveaux usages rituels de l’Âge du Cuivre, c. 3300-2600 cal av. n.è, en plus de l'intégration d'autres constructions funéraires (tholoi) dans les monuments tumulaires, c. 2600-2250 cal av. n.è, cas du dolmen 2 de Los Llanetes ; La mise en place et la consolidation de trois modèles de monuments funéraires à l'Âge du Cuivre: les hypogées, les hypogées mixtes et les tholoi, comme en montré la séquence diachronique des sépultures collectives d'El Seminario, c. 3000-2400 cal av. n.è. Ces tombes partagent des éléments spatiaux et des gestes funéraires communs ; L'existence d'autres formes de monumentalité de l'Âge du Bronze Ancien, c. 2250-1950 cal av. n.è, à la suite de la réappropriation des espaces ancestraux: 1) les enceintes de terrasses du groupe de Los Llanetes; 2) le monumentalisme funéraire du Séminaire, intégrant des tombes individuelles (caves souterraines, fosses et structures à couverture tumulaire) et des tombes collectives (fosses) dans les sépultures chalcolithiques ; Réutilisation dans diverses phases de l'Âge du Bronze et dans plusieurs périodes historiques
The area of Huelva stands out for the architectural variability and singularity of the megalithic monuments. The study of this area allows us to propose an architectural sequence and a temporality from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age in western Andalusia, contrasting with the southern models of the Iberian Peninsula and contextualizing the dynamics of western European megalithism. To do this, the research focuses on the study of three spheres of monuments: architecture, construction and uses (funerary, ritual and territorial). The identification and characterization of the architectural projects of the analyzed sites (Los Llanetes and El Seminario) has been carried out through a methodology oriented to the knowledge of construction works, architectures and diachronies. The architectural sequence of western Andalusia encompasses a temporality from the beginning of the 4th millennium to the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC. During this chronology several models of funerary monuments and rituals erected with a variety of constructive techniques, representing the existence of regional styles or local specializations according to the different social groups. By way of synthesis, the regional sequence evidences the following process : The construction of the first dolmens at the beginning of the 4th millennium cal BC, as evidenced by the oval-elongated chamber monuments of Los Llanetes, built c. 3950-3750 cal BC. In the south of the peninsula c. 3800 cal BC burst the funerary collectivism as a ritual of death, developing burials in simple chamber dolmens, proto-megalithic tombs, necropolis-caves or sepulchral caves ; The formation of the elongated-chamber dolmens, c. 3750-3650 cal BC, through two ways: a) ex novo models; b) by processes of transformation of old monuments, case of Los Llanetes. The reiteration of similar architectural projects would condition the development of elongated monuments, as has been confirmed in the dolmen 4 of El Pozuelo, c. 3650-3200 cal BC. Characteristics and similar architectural formulas could be presented in the "covered gallery graves" of Andalusia, built during the central centuries and the second half of the 4th millennium BC ; The dual chamber dolmens of Los Llanetes were built on the previous monuments, c. 3650-3200 cal BC, parallel to the passage grave and elongated structures of other areas. The monuments of multiple chambers (El Pozuelo, Mesa de Las Huecas, Los Gabrieles, etc.) had to present equivalent transformation processes, being unique, particular and exclusive models of the area of Huelva and surrounding areas ; In the various orthostatic monuments were carry out the monumentalization projects and structures arranged in the atriums and external spaces according to the new ritual uses of the Copper Age, c. 3300-2600 cal BC, in addition to the integration of other funerary constructions (tholoi) in the tumular monuments, c. 2600-2250 cal BC, case of the dolmen 2 of Los Llanetes ; The implantation and consolidation of three models of funerary monuments in the Copper Age: hypogeums, mixed hypogeums and tholoi, as witnessed by the diachronic sequence of the collective graves of El Seminario, c. 3000-2400 cal BC. These tombs share common space elements and funerary practices ; The existence of other forms of monumentality of the Ancient Bronze Age, c. 2250-1950 cal BC, as a consequence of the reappropriation of the ancestral spaces: 1) the terrace enclosures of the Llanetes group; 2) the funerary monumentalism of El Seminario, integrating individual tombs (subterranean caves, pits and structures with tumular coverings) and collective graves (pits) in the chalcolithic tombs ; Reuse in various phases of the Bronze Age and in several historical periods
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Books on the topic "Megalithic monuments"

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Devi, R. K. Tamphasana. Megalithic monuments of Salangthel, Manipur. Imphal: Mutua Museum, 1989.

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Grinsell, L. V. The Megalithic monuments of Stanton Drew. [Bristol]: [L.V. Grinsell], 1994.

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Galter, Josep Tarrús i. Els monuments megalítics. [Girona]: Diputació de Girona, 1992.

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Cope, Julian. MEGALITHIC EUROPEAN. SHAFTSBURY: ELEMENT BOOKS, 2004.

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Bulgaria) Simpozium "Megaliti na Balkanite" (1st 2009 Sofia. I Simpozium "Megaliti na Balkanite": Dokladi = First Symposium "Balkan Megaliths" : proceedings. Sofii︠a︡: Izd-vo "Zakhariĭ Stoi︠a︡nov", 2009.

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Malsawmliana. Megalithic culture of Mizoram. New Delhi, India: Research India Press, 2017.

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Ketut, Wiradnyana, and Balai Arkeologi Medan, eds. Megalithic traditions in Nias Island. Medan, Indonesia: Medan Archeological Office, 2007.

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Holtorf, Cornelius. Monumental past: The life-histories of megalithic monuments in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany). Scarborough, Ont: Published by CITD Press, University of Toronto at Scarborough, 2001.

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Priwer, Shana. Ancient monuments. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Focus, 2009.

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1946-, Bradley Richard, and Williams Howard, eds. The past in the past: The reuse of ancient monuments. London: Routledge, 1998.

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Book chapters on the topic "Megalithic monuments"

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Nelson, Sarah Milledge. "Megalithic Monuments in Korea." In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, 1–3. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3934-5_8772-2.

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Nelson, Sarah Milledge. "Megalithic Monuments in Korea." In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, 3095–97. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7747-7_8772.

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Priuli, Ausilio. "Arms and the Armed: The Evocative Ritual Language in Val Camonica Rock Art." In Martial Culture and Historical Martial Arts in Europe and Asia, 3–43. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2037-0_1.

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AbstractDepictions of weapons and of armed human figures in Camunianand Alpinerock art are common, particularly after the advent of metalwork and especially beginning with the Copper Age. They are found on monuments and on rocks, as can be seen clearly in the megalithic sanctuaries featuring stelae, anthropomorphic stelae, and statues-menhir, as well as in the most significant Alpine spiritual centers and elsewhere, such as Val Camonica (It. Valle Camonica, Lo. Al Camònega), Mount Bego (Mont Bégo), Val Tellina, and Monte Baldo, on the Veroneseshore of Lake Garda (Lago di Garda). Depictions of weapons are important for the chronological and cultural placement of the engraved complexes; the depictions of armed human figures that dominate some Alpine engraving sets are no less important. That is particularly the case in Val Camonica and Val Tellina, over a very long period of time running from the Bronze Age up to the Iron Age and even into prehistoric times. The depictions of men holding weapons—in a wide variety of stylistic, iconographic, and compositional arrangements, and belonging to many different periods and stages of engraving—represent a ritual language that was used at the very time the pictures were being created. They are an evocative language that commemorated, revived, and spoke of mythical forefathers, ancestral heroes, departed warriors, founders of communities, and indeed anyone who played an important role in the past and became an object of worship. The ritual gesture of depicting them might have served the ritual function not only of commemoration but of calling their presence back from the past into the community in times of particular need.
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Marçal, Daniel, Ariele Câmara, João Oliveira, and Ana de Almeida. "Evaluating R-CNN and YOLO V8 for Megalithic Monument Detection in Satellite Images." In Computational Science – ICCS 2024, 162–70. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63759-9_20.

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Taniardi, Putri Novita. "Megalithic Culture Research in Banyuwangi, East Java Province, Indonesia | Penelitian Budaya Megalitik di Banyuwangi, Jawa Timur, Indonesia." In From Megaliths to Maritime Landscapes: Perspectives on Indo-Pacific Archaeology, 5–14. SEAMEO SPAFA, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.26721/spafa.p663o83rkr-1.

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Previous research on the megalithic cultures of East Java, Indonesia was carried out in the regions of Situbondo, Bondowoso, Jember, and Probolinggo. The results demonstrated that there is a diversity of megalithic monuments and cultures in the area, both in terms of form and chronology. The latest project undertaken by the Megalithic Culture Research Team in Banyuwangi focuses on the megalithic monuments in Banyuwangi, the easternmost region of East Java. This research was conducted using surveys and excavations. The project has demonstrated that Banyuwangi possesses dolmens, a type of megalithic monument uncovered by excavation. Pottery fragments and beads were also recovered from the megalithic sites. Dating of pottery retrieved from the same contexts as the dolmens suggest that the megalithic culture of Banyuwangi originated in the 3rd to 6th centuries CE, or in the protohistoric period. This date is the oldest when compared to othermegalithic cultures in East Java. Thus, the results of this study contribute important new archaeological data to the diversity of megalithic cultures in Indonesia. Penelitian sebelumnya tentang budaya megalitik Jawa Timur, Indonesia dilakukan di daerah Situbondo, Bondowoso, Jember, dan Probolinggo. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa terdapat keragaman monumen dan budaya megalitik di daerah tersebut, baik dari segi bentuk maupun kronologis. Proyek terbaru yang dikerjakan tim penelitian budaya megalitik di Banyuwangi berfokus pada monumen megalitik di Banyuwangi, wilayah paling timur Jawa Timur. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan metode survei dan ekskavasi. Proyek tersebut telah menunjukkan bahwa Banyuwangi memiliki dolmen, sejenis monumen megalitik yang ditemukan melalui penggalian. Pecahan tembikar dan manik-manik juga ditemukan dari situs megalitik. Penanggalan tembikar yang diambil dari konteks yang sama dengan dolmen menunjukkan bahwa budaya megalitik Banyuwangi berasal dari abad ke-3 hingga ke-6 Masehi, atau pada periode protohistoric. Pertanggalan ini merupakan yang tertua jika dibandingkan dengan kebudayaan megalitik lainnya di Jawa Timur. Dengan demikian, hasil penelitian ini memberikan kontribusi data arkeologi baru yang penting bagi keragaman budaya megalitik di Indonesia.
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SHEKHAR, Himanshu, and Rabindra Kumar MOHANTY. "Megalithic monuments of Jharkhand:." In Megaliths of the World, 475–88. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.15135898.36.

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RAJAN, K. "Situating megalithic monuments in Tamil Nadu:." In Megaliths of the World, 545–66. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.15135898.44.

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Cooney, Gabriel. "Icons of Antiquity: Remaking Megalithic Monuments in Ireland." In The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198724605.003.0011.

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Megalithic tombs dating to the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (4000–2000 cal. BC) are a very distinctive aspect of the Irish landscape (Jones 2007; Scarre 2007). They are an important monumental aspect of this period and since the 1990s our understanding of this period has been complemented by an extensive record of settlement and related activity that has been revealed through development-led archaeology (e.g. Smyth 2011). A focus of antiquarian and archaeological interest since at least the nineteenth century, the basis of modern approaches to megalithic tombs includes the systematic Megalithic Survey of Ireland that was initiated by Ruaidhrí de Valera in the 1950s, under the auspices of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland (Ó Nualláin 1989; Cody 2002 are the latest volumes published) and the excavation of key sites, for example the passage tombs of Newgrange (O’Kelly 1982; O’Kelly et al. 1983) and Knowth (Eogan 1984; 1986; Eogan and Roche 1997; Eogan and Cleary forthcoming) in the Boyne Valley and Carrowmore in Co. Sligo (Burenhult 1980; 1984; 2001). Current work includes the excavation of individual sites, work on the sources used in tomb construction, reviews of particular megalithic tomb types, landscape and regional studies, archaeoastronomy and overviews for a wide readership. The known number of megalithic tombs on the island now approaches 1,600 and the majority of these can be categorized as falling into one of four tomb types whose names encapsulate key architectural features of each tradition, hence the terms portal tombs, court tombs, passage tombs and wedge tombs (Evans 1966, 7–15; Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, xiii). Unsurprisingly, much of the focus of archaeological research has been on the role of these monuments for the people and societies who constructed them. Issues such as the date of construction of different tomb types (Cooney et al. 2011) and the relationship between them have been central to key debates about the Neolithic, informing such major topics as the date and character of the Mesolithic to Neolithic transition, the changing character of society over the course of the Neolithic, mortuary rites and traditions, and the links between Ireland, Britain, and north-west Europe at this time (Cooney 2000; Bradley 2007; Waddell 2010).
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Scarre, Chris. "Changing places: monuments and the Neolithic transition in western France." In Going Over: The Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in North-West Europe. British Academy, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197264140.003.0013.

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The suggestion that monuments were not a feature of the initial Neolithic poses anew the question of the Mesolithic contribution to the earliest Neolithic of Atlantic Europe. Put bluntly, are these monuments the consequence of contact and acculturation between incoming farmers and indigenous hunter-gatherers, as was envisaged twenty years ago? If so, what was the nature of the Mesolithic contribution? Was it the forms of the monuments themselves, or did it lie more generally in attitudes to materials, places, and landscape? This chapter suggests that the craggy landscapes of Atlantic Europe may have inspired the construction of megalithic monuments. The new monumentality could as well have been the response of incoming farming communities to these landscapes, however, as a transformation in the behaviour of indigenous foraging groups, who may have envisaged these landscapes in entirely different ways. The landscape beliefs of Mesolithic communities might have played a role in the inception of megaliths, but the scarcity of Mesolithic monuments and the presence of a ‘premonument’ Neolithic suggests that it was the advent of farming groups or farming ideologies that laid the crucial foundations.
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Sanmartí, Joan, and Nabil Kallala. "Roman Dolmens? The Megalithic Necropolises of Eastern Maghreb Revisited." In The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198724605.003.0022.

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North Africa has a rich tradition of archaeological studies. Its origins and early development are linked to the modern colonization of the region by several European powers, but it has also had a remarkable continuity after decolonization, both in international cooperation missions and in solo work developed by the research institutions of the Maghreb states, most particularly in Tunisia. However, this research has been extremely biased as regards the periods and cultures studied, since, due to easy to imagine political reasons related to the European colonization, the Roman period and the remains of early Christianity constituted a primary aim of the research. For this reason, pre-Roman levels that lie below the vast majority of Roman sites have been hardly explored. Although this state of affairs persisted after decolonization, it has been slowly changing in recent years. The situation is somewhat different with regard to funerary archaeology, as North Africa, especially its eastern portion, is characterized by the existence of a surprising number and diversity of pre-Roman sepulchral monuments (there are tens of thousands of recorded monuments) (Camps 1961). Owing to their high visibility, these monuments constitute the best-known aspect of North Africa’s pre-Roman archaeology. Yet, current knowledge on them is still limited due to the small number of excavations that have been carried out following modern methodology. In addition to the large monumental tombs linked to Numidian monarchies (strongly influenced by Punic and Hellenistic models), we can mention, among others, the following types: rock-cut chamber tombs (known as haouanet); large mounds that hide funerary chambers that are completely invisible from the outside (at times, they are bordered by more or less substantial walls; they are then called bazinas); tower-shaped monuments (called chouchet in Algeria); other structures are essentially similar to European dolmens, and still others consist of generally small built chambers surrounded by circular walls and covered by megalithic slabs; very frequently these are also called ‘dolmens’, although they do not have any side access and they frequently do not seem to be collective graves.
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Conference papers on the topic "Megalithic monuments"

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Seglins, Valdis, and Agnese Kukela. "THE PLOCHATA DOLMEN NEAR ZLATOSEL, BULGARIA." In 9th SWS International Scientific Conferences on ART and HUMANITIES - ISCAH 2022. SGEM WORLD SCIENCE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35603/sws.iscah.2022/s04.05.

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Bulgaria is extremely rich in prehistoric and historic monuments. Among Bulgaria�s outstanding monuments there are not only the well-known Varna Necropolis and Provadia-Solnitsata ancient salt mining and urban center, but also numerous other megalithic prehistoric monuments. Until now, they have been identified and recognized mainly as alone - standing objects. Current paper focuses on the study carried out in the vicinity of Zlatosel village on the prehistoric site of the Plochata Dolmen. The study indicates that this large area consists of a complex of ancient buildings� ruins and fragments of megalithic structures. The most notable fragment of an ancient complex structure is so-called portal dolmen, which has been adapted for sun observation during much later times, when the monuments of the megalithic culture had already lost their significance. This ancient culture is evidenced not only by numerous ruins of megalithic monuments easily recognizable in a large area (including the northern shore of the lake Dondukovo), but also by many signs and symbols still visible on the exposed surfaces of the natural rock walls and several man-made natural rock formations and their groups. The study reveals that closer attention should be paid also to the shapes given to the individual stone material monoliths and the quality of the surface treatment. This is an important indication not only of the quality of the tools used by the ancient craftsmen, but also of their skills and ability to do their job with sufficient precision.
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Seglins, Valdis, Agnese Kukela, and Baiba Lazdina. "THE MONUMENTS OF THE MEGALITHIC CULTURE ON THE ISLAND OF RAB, CROATIA." In 7th SWS International Scientific Conference on ART and HUMANITIES - ISCAH 2020 Proceedings. STEF92 Technology, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sws.iscah.2020.7.1/s19.05.

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Izhendeev, Alexey V. "Functions of megaliths and modern monuments." In Агропромышленный комплекс: проблемы и перспективы развития. Благовещенск: Дальневосточный государственный аграрный университет, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.22450/9785964205494_3_45.

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