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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"burial cairns"”.
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The Neolithic Settlement of the Yorkshire Dales
… as a Neolithic ‘buffer zone’ for the earliest burial monument building styles, with architectural influences from both the megalithic and earthen barrow building traditions apparent. The accepted chronologies of several of the larger burial cairns are challenged, burial practices are reviewed, …
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The Neolithic and early Bronze Age in the Firth of Clyde
… monuments which were the foci of ritual and/or burial practices during this period are considered: chambered cairns of the Neolithic, stone circles, standing stones, cup-marked rocks, early Bronze Age burial cairns and unmarked burial monuments. A difference from previous work is the historical …
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Landscapes of Burial? The Homs Basalt, Syria in the 4th-3rd millennia BC
… there exist thousands of hitherto unrecognized burial cairns and settlements provisionally dated to the 4th-3rd millennia BC. They represent a unique opportunity to analyze a largely extant archaeological record of human activity, which contrasts with the traditional landscape of tells …
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Later Quaternary archaeological sequences in northern Tanzania
… the youngest items from shelter deposits and burial cairns in the area. Some of these more recent items relate to the Early Iron Age (Lelesu ware), and others seem to relate to the Engaruka Complex, a later Iron Age culture noted for a combination of dry-wall stone works, irrigation-based …
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Changing Landscapes and Persistent Places : An Exploration of the Bjäre Peninsula
Changing Landscapes and Persistent Places is a study of the cultural landscape on the Bjäre peninsula in northwest Skåne. The many Bronze Age remains that give the landscape its distinctive character are the starting point for an attempt to increase our understanding of the historical depth of …