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Tumuli and megaliths mark the landscape of Eurasia and are rich in data, mystery, and legends. Books about them are often monographic or have a local range. This collection of essays highlights and brings together 74 authors from 16 countries, from Portugal to Japan and Indonesia. They offer a diversity of regional backgrounds, theoretical perspectives, and scientific approaches relevant to anyone working in history, archaeology, anthropology, and heritage.Densely illustrated and written in a way that is understandable to anyone, it is easily accessible to students, professors, researchers, and cultural or heritage managers. It will also attract anyone interested in past cultures, early religions, and ancient architecture. Its content makes it a mandatory book for the central and specialized libraries of any university, I&D centre, museum or visiting centre about this and other related issues.

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João Caninas is the manager of EMERITA - Empresa Portuguesa de Arqueologia, researcher at CHAIA - Centro de História de Arte e Investigação Artística, member of the AEAT - Associação de Estudos do Alto Tejo and leads the Proença-a-Nova International Archaeological Field Camp. He has published hundreds of books, chapters, and papers on Prehistory, Megalithism and Ethnography.Telmo Pereira is Associated Professor at the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Invited Adjunct Professor at Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, and researcher at CGeo - Centro de Geociências da Universidade de Coimbra and Uniarq - Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa. He has published dozens of works on Prehistory.Paulo Félix is a professional archaeologist, former Assistant Professor at Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal, researcher at CGeo - Centro de Geociências da Universidade de Coimbra. He has published dozens of works about Pre- and Protohistoric territories and Megalithism.Isabel Gaspar is a senior official at the Municipality of Proença-a-Nova, Portugal. She is responsible for ensuring that the Proença-a-Nova International Archaeological Field Camp and other activities related to Archaeology and Heritage run smoothly.

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