Format:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781785700156
Note:
Intro -- List of contributors -- Preface: megalithic architecture in Europe -- SECTION 1: THE MEGALITH-BUILDERS -- 1. Menga (Andalusia, Spain): biography of an exceptional megalithic monument -- 2. Structural functions and architectural projects within the long monuments of Western France -- 3. Megalithic building techniques in the Languedoc region of southern France: recent excavations at two dolmens in Hérault -- 4. Megalithic constructional techniques in north-west France: cairn III at Prissé-la-Charrière -- 5. A monumental task: building the dolmens of Britain and Ireland -- 6. The megalithic construction process and the building of passage graves in Denmark -- 7. Accident or design? Chambers, cairns and funerary practices in Neolithic western Europe -- 8. Dolmens without mounds in Denmark -- 9. In the eye of the beholder: key architectural elements in 25 years of visual analysis of Danish megalithic tombs -- SECTION 2: CEMETERIES AND SEQUENCES -- 10. Building forever or just for the time being? A view from north-western Iberia -- 11. The megalithic architecture of Huelva (Spain): typology, construction and technical traditions in eastern Andévalo -- 12. The clustering of megalithic monuments around the causewayed enclosures at Sarup on Funen, Denmark -- 13. Two types of megaliths and an unusual dolmen at Lønt, Denmark -- 14. Common motivation, different intentions? A multiscalar approach to the megalithic architecture of the Funnel Beaker North Group -- SECTION 3: CHRONOLOGIES AND CONTEXT -- 15. Between east and west: megaliths in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula -- 16. Megalithic hollows: rock-cut tombs between the Tagus and the Guadiana -- 17. Houses of the dead and natural rocks: new evidence from western France -- 18. The stone rows of Hoedic (Morbihan) and the construction of alignments in western France
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19. Decorative techniques in Breton megalithic tombs (France): the role of paintings -- 20. Stability in a changing world: insights from settlement intensity patterns and archaeobotany -- SECTION 4: CONCLUSIONS -- 21. Ostentation, power, and megaliths: the example of Easter Island -- 22. A southern viewpoint -- 23. A northern viewpoint
Additional Edition:
Print version Laporte, Luc The Megalithic Architectures of Europe Havertown : Oxbow Books, Limited,c2015 ISBN 9781785700149
Language:
English
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