Megalithic Quarrying: Sourcing, extracting and manipulating the stones (Session WS02)

Megalithic Quarrying: Sourcing, extracting and manipulating the stones (Session WS02)

Author
Chris Scarre
Publisher
BAR Publishing
Language
English, French
Year
2009
ISBN
9781407304052,9781407334363
File Type
pdf
File Size
21.3 MiB

Papers from the session entitled Megalithic Quarrying presented at the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006). 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 Huenengräber: 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 lOuest de la France: la carrière du Rocher Mouton à Besné (Loire-Atlantique, France) (Emmanuel Mens); 9) Exploitation de la pierre et mise en uvre des matériaux sur le site néolithique du Souch 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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