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His systematic study of British and Irish stone circles, arguing that their stone arrangements enact a recurring fertility symbolism - tall thin stones as the male principle,
NEW Multidisciplinary study finds evidence for a previously unknown Iron Age funerary tradition stretching around Scotland’s northern coast, indicating complex interactions between the living and the dead connected people across the sea.
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Aird nan Uan cairns: Two cairns, burial monuments dating from the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (around 2500 - 1500 BC), visible as two stony mounds. On the headland at at Gallanach Bay, Isle of Muck. More: http://www.megalithi...
The site was first excavated by Henry Wellcome between 1911 and 1914 in one of the largest archaeological excavations ever conducted in Africa at that time, employing thousands of workers.
Jebel Moya Pastorialist Cemetery: One of the largest pastoralist cemeteries in Africa, with over 3,000 burials excavated from a shallow valley on the isolated rocky hill of Jebel Moya in the Gezira plain of central Sudan, between the White Nile and Blue Nile rivers south of Khartoum.
Book Review: Terence Meaden: The Stone Circles of Cork and Kerry Guide, with Analyses: Terence Meaden's work has been known to readers of the Megalithic Portal for many years.
broader flat ones as female - is one of those bodies of research to engage with seriously whether or not you end up persuaded. Meaden visits sites at sunrise on the relevant festival dates. He measures, photographs, and documents.
Svebølle Runddysse 3: Megalitgrav (Burial Chamber) in Holbæk. A dolmen on a low mound with one capstone, 5 orthostats (uprights) and one entrance stone. 📷 Tonnox More: http://www.megalithi...
The cemetery dates primarily to the 1st millennium BCE and early 1st millennium CE [Old Kingdom Period], though earlier occupation phases exist. The Wellcome Collection has records and photographs from the excavations, linked from our page. 📷 Anne T More: http://www.megalithi...
This book is the fullest statement of that fieldwork to date, covering around 120 stone circles across Cork and Kerry with analyses, dawn photography, and a complete site-by-site gazetteer. 📷 KenWilliams More: http://www.megalithi...
