Megalithic Societies: Old Questions, New Narratives

Contents

List of editors and main affiliations

List of Symposium Speakers – Talks listed if no book chapter

List of Volume Contributors (Alphabetical)

List of chapter reviewers

List of Figures and Tables

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 and Lucy Shaw Evangelista

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 on the megaliths of western Scotland (Arts, Adelaide). Now postdoctoral researcher (ERC-SyG-2020-951631-XSCAPE Material Minds (2024 - INCIPIT, CSIC), a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, a Visiting Research Fellow (Bournemouth and Adelaide) and founding member of CAA (AUS) and AAAC (Australian Association for Astronomy in Culture). A member of the MSCA Alumni Association (EUproject SHoW: Shared Worlds, project number 800236, https://gailhigginbottom.wixsite.com/mysite), she researches European and Landscape Archaeology, and Cultural Astronomy.

Jadranka Verdonkschot is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Heritage Sciences (INCIPIT-CSIC). She studied at the Universities of Amsterdam, Prague, and Alcalá de Henares and earned her doctorate in European Neolithic archaeology from Tübingen University and Alcalá University. Currently, she is the Principal Investigator of MILESTONE: Modelling Megalithic Space. Paleoenvironment, Navigation and Sight in Monumental Landscapes Grant (PID2023-152882NB-I00 of the Spanish State National Research Agency) and a postdoctoral researcher in the XSCAPE, Material Minds (ERC Synergy Grant) project. Her research focuses on landscape archaeology, monumentality and cognitive-material interactions in prehistory.