Pre and protohistoric stone architectures : comparisons of the social and technical contexts associated to their building : proceedings of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France).: comparisons of the social and technical contexts associated to their building : proceedings of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France). Session XXXII-3 / Volume 1, (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Florian Cousseau and Luc Laporte.
• Editors: Cousseau, Florian; Laporte, Luc
• Other Names: International Congress of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, 18th
• Contents: Préface – Catherine Perlès ; Prefacio – Primitiva Bueno-Ramírez ; Chapter 1: Stonemasons, and even engineers, for megalithic building in Neolithic Europe? / Des maçons, voire quelques ingénieurs, pour le bâti mégalithique du Néolithique européen ? – Luc Laporte, Florian Cousseau, Philippe Gouézin, José-Antonio Linares-Catela and Hélène Pioffet ; Part I: Big and Small Stones for megaliths ; Chapter 2: Dry stone, old but innovative / Pierre sèche, ancestrale et innovante – Eric Vincens, Nathanaël Savalle and Claire Cornu ; Chapter 3: Megalithic architectures: a methodological experience to study their elevation / Architectures mégalithiques : une expérience méthodologique pour étudier leurs élévations – Florian Cousseau ; Chapter 4: Raised stones in the open and raised stones in burial chambers: Towards a convergence of the arrangements. The example of the megaliths in the department of Morbihan / Pierres dressées à l'air libre et pierres dressées des espaces sépulcraux Vers une convergence des dispositifs. L'exemple des mégalithes du département du Morbihan – Philippe Gouézin ; Chapter 5: Techniques and criteria for the geometric documentation of the excavation of the dolmen 'Alto de la Huesera' (Álava, Spain) and its virtual reconstruction / Técnicas y criterios para la documentación geométrica de la excavación del dolmen « Alto de la Huesera » (Álava, España) y su reconstrucción virtual– Javier Fernández-Eraso, José A. Mujika-Alustiza, José M. Valle-Melón and Álvaro Rodríguez-Miranda ; Chapter 6: Where were the dead buried in Recent Prehistory? The problem of architectures versus chronologies in Central Alentejo (Portugal) / Onde se enterravam os nossos mortos na Pré-história Recente? : O problema das arquiteturas versus cronologias no Alentejo Central (Portugal) – Leonor Rocha ; Part II: Enclosures, Tower-tombs and 'Temples' ; Chapter 7: The tower-tombs of Arabia from the 4th to the 3rd millennium BC: a standardised megalithic architecture for egalitarian societies? / Les tombes tours d'Arabie du 4ème au 3ème millénaire av. J.-C. : une architecture mégalithique standardisée pour des sociétés égalitaires ? – Tara Steimer-Herbet and Marie Besse ; Chapter 8: 'Temples' or merely Buildings for Congregation? The prehistoric megalithic structures of Malta (3600-2500 BCE) / 'Templi' o semplicemente edifici per la congregazione? Le strutture megalitiche preistoriche di Malta (3600-2500 a.C.) – Anthony Bonanno ; Chapter 9: Stone architectures: entrances of Neolithic enclosures in Western France (5th-3rd millennium BC) / Architectures en pierre : les systèmes d'entrées des enceintes néolithiques de l'ouest de la France (Ve-IIIe mill. av. J.-C.) – Jean-Noël Guyodo, Audrey Blanchard and Luc Laporte ; Chapter 10: Architectural study of an Iron Age rampart undergoing destruction: Guennoc Island, Landéda (Finistère, France) / Étude de l'architecture d'un rempart de l'âge du Fer en cours de destruction : l'Île Guennoc à Landéda (Finistère, France) – Hervé Duval, Florian Cousseau, Chloë Martin and Marie-Yvane Daire ; Conclusion – Florian Cousseau and Luc Laporte ; Abstracts ; Bibliography ; Authors.
• Publisher Details: Oxford : Archaeopress Archaeology
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 186 pages)
• Subjects: 721.04410936; Architecture, Ancient -- Europe -- Congresses; Building, Stone -- Europe -- Congresses; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Europe -- Congresses
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789695465
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 15, 2020).
• Access Rights: Open access.
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