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This book includes papers from the session entitled 'Megalithic Quarrying' presented at the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006).

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Author:   Chris Scarre
Publisher:   BAR Publishing
Imprint:   BAR Publishing
Volume:   1923
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 29.70cm
Weight:   0.383kg
ISBN:  

9781407304052

ISBN 10:   1407304054
Pages:   96
Publication Date:   15 April 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   French

Table of Contents

Preface (Chris Scarre); 1) Stony Ground: outcrops, rocks and quarries in the creation of megalithic monuments (Chris Scarre); 3) The Megalithic Building Site (Torben Dehn); 4) Hunebedden and Hünengräber: the construction of megalithic tombs west of the River Elbe (Jan Albert Bakker); 5) The Gallery Graves of Hesse and Westphalia, Germany: extracting and working the stones ( Kerstin Schierhold); 6) Beyond Stonehenge: seeking the start of the bluestone trail (Timothy Darvill); 7) Architectonique et esthétique des alignements de menhirs du sud de la Vendée (France) (Gérard Benéteau-Douillard); 8) Technologie des mégalithes dans l'Ouest de la France: la carrière du Rocher Mouton à Besné (Loire-Atlantique, France) (Emmanuel Mens); 9) Exploitation de la pierre et mise en ouvre des matériaux sur le site néolithique du Souc'h en Plouhinec (Finistère, France) (Michel Le Goffic); 10) Transforming Stone: ethnoarchaeological perspectives on megalith form in Eastern Indonesia (Ron L. Adams)

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