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Megalithic quarrying : sourcing, extracting and manipulating the stones
- Title
- Megalithic quarrying : sourcing, extracting and manipulating the stones / edited by Chris Scarre.
- Author
- International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences. World Congress (15th : 2006 : Lisbon, Portugal)
- Publication
- Oxford : Archaeopress, 2009.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- iv, 92 pages : illustrations, maps; 30 cm
- Summary
- "Papers from the session entitled 'Megalithic Quarrying' presented at the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006)."--Publisher's website
- Series Statement
- BAR international series ; 1923
- Uniform Title
- BAR international series ; 1923.
- Alternative Title
- Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques = International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, Proceedings of the XV World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) = Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne, 4-9 Septembre 2006), Vol. 31, Session WC02
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Note
- "Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques = International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, Proceedings of the XV World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006) = Actes du XV Congrès Mondial (Lisbonne, 4-9 Septembre 2006), Vol. 31, Session WC02."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language (note)
- Text in English or French.
- Contents
- Preface / Chris Scarre -- Stony Ground: outcrops, rocks and quarries in the creation of megalithic monuments / Chris Scarre -- The Megalithic Building Site / Torben Dehn -- Hunebedden and Hünengräber: the construction of megalithic tombs west of the River Elbe / Jan Albert Bakker -- The Gallery Graves of Hesse and Westphalia, Germany: extracting and working the stones / Kerstin Schierhold -- Beyond Stonehenge: seeking the start of the bluestone trail / Timothy Darvill -- Architectonique et esthétique des alignements de menhirs du sud de la Vendée (France) / Gérard Benéteau-Douillard -- Technologie des mégalithes dans l'Ouest de la France: la carrière du Rocher Mouton à Besné (Loire-Atlantique, France) / Emmanuel Mens -- Exploitation de la pierre et mise en œuvre des matériaux sur le site néolithique du Souc'h en Plouhinec (Finistère, France) / Michel Le Goffic -- Transforming Stone: ethnoarchaeological perspectives on megalith form in Eastern Indonesia / Ron L. Adams.
- ISBN
- 9781407304052
- 1407304054
- LCCN
- 2009396585
- OCLC
- ocn320756855
- 320756855
- SCSB-1516149
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library