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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
  • Scarre, Christopher.
  • International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences.
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
  • Megalithic monuments > Congresses
  • Quarries and quarrying, Prehistoric > Congresses
  • 15.32 prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology
  • Megalithic monuments
  • Quarries and quarrying, Prehistoric
  • Megalith
  • Steinbearbeitung
  • Vor- und Frühgeschichte
  • Megalieten
  • Steengroeven
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