Megalithic Societies: Old Questions, New Narratives

Name: Megalithic Societies: Old Questions, New Narratives
Brand: Archaeopress

Archaeopress

Megalithic Societies: Old Questions, New NarrativesAuthor(s): Gail M. Higginbottom, Jadranka Verdonkschot, Chris Scarre, A. Csar Gonzlez-Garca, Felipe Criado-Boado\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Archaeopress, United Kingdom\nImprint: Archaeopress Archaeology\nISBN-13: 9781805830764, 978-1805830764\nSynopsis\nShining a light on some of the most interesting research results on megalithic cultures, as well as their contemporaries, these 16 papers from the European Megalithic Studies Group symposium (Santiago de Compostela, Spain), cover monuments from Germany, moving down the Atlantic Facade across to Ireland and then back to the Western Mediterranean. Issues presented in this volume include temporality and mobility (both at the broad scale and at the local scale), social organisation & settings and external relationships. The methods used to investigate these themes are various: bio-molecular and isotopic analyses, typo-chronology, targeted excavations & radiocarbon dating, mate.