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Pre and Protohistoric Stone Architectures: Comparisons of the Social and Technical Contexts Associated to Their Building presents the papers from Session XXXII-3 of the XVIII UISPP Congress (Paris, 4-9 June 2018). This session took place within the commission concerned with the European Neolithic. While most of the presentations fell within that chronological period and were concerned with the Atlantic coast and the Mediterranean basin, wider geographical and chronological comparisons were also included. This volume aims to break the usual limits on the fields of study and to deconstruct some preconceived ideas. New methods developed over the past ten years bring out new possibilities regarding the study of such monuments, and the conference proceedings open up unexpected and promising perspectives. This volume is a parallel text edition in English and French.

Table of 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

Florian Cousseau is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). His work focuses on megalithic architecture in Western Europe for which he has developed a new methodology. He has adapted building archaeology methodology to study pre-protohistoric elevations. As a result he has updated the data of famous sites in northwestern France such as Barnenez, Guennoc and Carn.

Luc Laporte is Senior Researcher at CNRS. He is specialist of Neolithic and Megalithism.