Megalithic Societies: Old Questions, New Narratives

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

List of Editors and Main Affiliations

List of Symposium Speakers

List of Volume Contributors (Alphabetical)

List of Chapter Reviewers

Contributor Biographies

Preface

Chapter 1: Time, mobility and society: new approaches to megalithic monumentality in western and northern Europe – Chris Scarre

Chapter 2: Towards a high-resolution chronology of major megalithic monuments: Menga and Montelirio (Andalusia, Spain) – Leonardo García Sanjuán, Marta Díaz-Guardamino and Francisco José Sánchez-Díaz

Chapter 3: Dissolving and contrasting. The secondary deposition of human cremains at Perdigões enclosure (3rd millennium BC, South Portugal) – Antonio Valera, Lucy Shaw Evangelista and Ricardo Godinho

Chapter 4: Para-megalithism: alternative routes to understanding big stones – Jessica Smyth

Chapter 5: Funnel Beaker Culture megaliths in northern Germany. A comparison of architectural elements between three regions – Anja Behrens

Chapter 6: Sardinian megalithic and rock-cut tombs in the context of the prehistoric western Mediterranean – Maria Grazia Melis

Chapter 7: Megaliths: the singularity of each element. Appropriation of distinct entities versus geometric constructions – Luc Laporte

Chapter 8: Current Research on Westphalian Megaliths – Kerstin Schierhold

Chapter 9: Preserved and demolished megaliths from the Danish Funnel Beaker Culture – Niels H. Andersen

Chapter 10: ‘Linking megaliths’. A computational approach to the study of movement and mobility in the megalithic complex of Galicia (Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula) – Miguel Carrero-Pazos and Devin A. White

Chapter 11: Multi-method geophysical survey in megalithic landscapes: case studies from Ireland and Sweden – Stephen Davis, Tony Axelsson, Knut Rassmann and Karl-Göran Sjögren

Chapter 12: Geoglyphs, petroglyphs, and megaliths – Richard Bradley

Chapter 13: Building Space. A structural model of space in megalithic landscapes – Felipe Criado-Boado and Jadranka Verdonkschot

Chapter 14: Fathoming megaliths: social proxies and indictors for the study of the dolmens – Gail Higginbottom

Chapter 15: A reappraisal of megalithic orientations from Iberia and beyond: towards models of interpretation – A. César González-García

Chapter 16: Monuments of the dynasties – monuments of the people? Megaliths in Europe – Johannes Müller

About the Author

Gail Higginbottom has a PhD (Arts, Adelaide) and is a postdoctoral researcher (XSCAPE Material Minds 2024) at the Institute of Heritage Sciences (INCIPIT-CSIC, Santiago de Compostela).

Jadranka Verdonkschot has a PhD in Archaeology from the Universities of Amsterdam and Alcalá de Henares and is a postdoctoral researcher for XSCAPE Material Minds at the Institute of Heritage Sciences (INCIPIT-CSIC, Santiago de Compostela).

Chris Scarre has a PhD from the University of Cambridge and is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at Durham University.

A. César González-García has a PhD in Astronomy from the RijkUniversiteit Groningen and is a staff researcher at the Institute of Heritage Sciences (INCIPIT-CSIC, Santiago de Compostela).

Felipe Criado-Boado, Professor of Research, Institute of Heritage Sciences (INCIPIT-CSIC, Santiago de Compostela). He is Honorary Research Associate of McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and Research Professor at the CSIC.