Session: #366

Theme & Session Format

Theme:
1. Artefacts, Buildings & Ecofacts
Session format:
Regular session

Title & Content

Title:
Megaliths and Graphical Markers in Landscape: New Techniques of Documentation
Content:
Megalithism is a long-lasting architectural phenomenon that has characterised Late Prehistory landscapes. The classical view of its expansion was limited to Europe and more specifically to the Atlantic façade. However, megalithic architecture has a much wider distribution, ranging from south-western Europe to Melanesia, the Near East and the Indian subcontinent.

Traditional historiography has studied megaliths from a perspective focused on architectural typology and their archaeological remains. Nowadays, efforts are concentrated on C14 chronologies, DNA and stable isotopes of the human bones located in them. Besides, the introduction of new documentation and data processing techniques has been a novelty in the study of megaliths and graphical markers (as, for example, rock art), giving a prominent role to the landscape in which they are integrated.

This session aims to gather young researchers specialised in Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods, beyond the classical European borders. We welcome papers exploring any aspect of megalithic landscapes, theoretical and practical approaches, documentation and data collection, graphical markers codification and distribution dynamics. The application of new methodologies provides an essential line of research for the study of occupation dynamics, transformation and recognition of the territory in which they are inserted.
Keywords:
Megaliths, Graphical markers, Documentation, Data processing, Late Prehistory
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
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Organisers

Main organiser:
Esther Navajo-Samaniego (Spain) 1
Co-organisers:
Alia Vázquez-Martínez (Spain) 2,1
Joana Castro Teixeira (Portugal) 3
Affiliations:
1. University of Alcalá
2. University of Santiago de Compostela
3. University of Porto