Tuesday, 17 March 2026

Megalithic Societies: Old Questions, New Narratives

Archaeopress: Megalithic Societies: Old Questions, New Narratives

https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.40094663
https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.40094663



This volume features 16 papers from the European Megalithic Studies Group, exploring monuments across Europe. Topics include mobility, social structures, and symbolism, using methods like isotopic analysis, 3D modelling, and excavation. It reveals new insights into megalithic traditions and practices.

Free ebook: https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781805830764

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, Lucy Shaw Evangelista and Ricardo Godinho

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

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