Megalithic Architectures of Europe

Megalithic Architectures of Europe

Laporte, Luc; Scarre, Chris

Oxbow Books

06/2022

248

Mole

Inglês

9781789258097

15 a 20 dias

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1. Preface: megalithic architecture in Europe

Luc Laporte& Chris Scarre

Section 1: The megalith-builders

2. Menga (Andalucia, Spain): the biography of an exceptional megalithic monument

Leonardo Garcia Sanjuan& Jose Antonio Lozano Rodriguez

3. Structural functions and architectural projects within the long monuments of Western France

Luc Laporte

4. Megalithic building techniques in the Languedoc region of southern France: recent excvations at two dolmens in Herault

Noisette Bec Drelon

5. Megalithic constructional techniques in north-west France: cairn III at Prisse-la-Charriere

Florian Cousseau

6. A monumental task: building the dolmens of Britain and Ireland

Vicki Cummings& Colin Richards

7. The megalithic construction process and the building of passage graves in Denmark

Torben Dehn

8. Accident or design? Chambers, cairns and funerary practices in Neolithic western Europe

Chris Scarre

9. Dolmens without mounds in Denmark

Palle Eriksen and Niels H. Anderson

10. In the eye of the beholder

Jorgen Westphal

Section 2: Cemeteries and sequences

11. Building forever or just for the time being? A view from north-western Iberia

Ramon Fabregas Valcarce& X.I. Vilaseco Vazquez

12. The megalithic architecture of Huelva (Spain): typology, construction and technical traditions eastern Andevalo

Jose Antonio Linares Catela

13. The clustering of megalithic monuments around the causewayed enclosures at Sarup on Funen, Denmark

Niels H. Andersen

14. Two types of megaliths and an unusual dolmen at Lont (Denmark)

Anne Birgitte Gebauer

15. Common motivation, different intentions? A multiscalar approach to the megalithic architecture of the Funnel Beaker North Group

Franziska Hage, Georg Schafferer& Martin Hinz



Section 3: Chronologies and context

16. Between East and West: megaliths in the centre of the Iberian peninsula

Primitiva Bueno Ramirez, Rosa Barroso Bermejo& Rodrigo de Balbin Behrmann

17. Megalithic hollows: rock-cut tombs between the Tagus and the Guadiana

Leonor Rocha

18. Houses of the dead and natural rocks: new evidence from western France

Philippe Gouezin

19. The stone rows of Hoedic (Morbihan) and the construction of alignments in western France

Jean-Marc Large& Emmanuel Mens

20. Paintings in the megalithic monuments of Brittany

Primitiva Bueno Ramirez, Rodrigo de Balbin Behrmann, Luc Laporte, Philippe Gouezin, Rosa Barroso Bermejo, Antonio Hernanz Gismero, JoseM. Gavira-Vallejo & Mercedes Iriarte Cela

21. Stability in a changing world: insights from settlement intensity patterns and archaeobotany

Martin Hinz& Wiebke Kirleis



Part 4: Conclusion

22. Ostentation, power, and megaliths: the example of Easter Island

Nicolas Cauwe

23. A southern point of view

Primitiva Bueno Ramirez& Luc Laporte

24. A northern point of view

Chris Scarre& Torben Dehn
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Architecture; European Prehistory