Links between Megalithism and Hypogeism in Western Mediterranean Europe

Among other objectives, this collection of papers investigates the role that settlements surrounding necropolises have played in the evolution of megalithic and hypogean graves and their relationship to the development of collective burial ritual through consideration of collective burial ritual as a means of masking social differences. The intention here is to explore the relationship between collectivism and concealment in relation to other forms of non-funerary ritualism. Contents: 1) Links between megalithism and hypogeism in Western Mediterranean Europe: an approach (José Andrés Afonso Marrero, Juan Antonio Cámara Serrano and Liliana Spanedda); 2) Different forms for the same symbol a theoretical reflection on monumental graves in IV-III millennia B.C. Through an ideological analysis of their architecture (María Aguado Molina); 3) Hypogea: concealed caves or constructed temples? The hypogea of Malta and their significance (Simon Stoddart and Caroline Malone); 4) Visibility and monumentality in western Granada's late prehistoric graves (Antonio Manuel Montufo Martín, Juan Antonio Cámara Serrano, José Andrés Afonso Marrero and Fernando Molina González); 5) Megaliths and rock-cut tombs in northeastern Sardinia: from spatial consecration to the demarcation of territorial boundaries (Liliana Spanedda); 6) Building for the dead. Rock-cut tombs and passage graves in the Lisbon peninsula. Some previous readings (Victor S. Gonçalves); 7) Incontro fra ipogeismo e megalitismo nel territorio del Barigadu (Sardegna, Italia) (Cinzia Loi); 8) Un particolare caso di megalitismo associato ad aspetti ipogeici nell'isola di La Maddalena (Sardegna) (Tomaso Di Fraia); 9) Burials in Sardinian bell beaker culture (Claudia Pau); 10) Conclusions. Monumentality between strategies of concealment and exhibition (Juan Antonio Cámara Serrano and José Andrés Afonso Marrero).