Megalithic Societies: Old Questions, New Narratives

Gail Higginbottom has a PhD (Arts, Adelaide) and is a postdoctoral researcher (XSCAPE Material Minds 2024) at the Institute of Heritage Sciences (INCIPIT-CSIC, Santiago de Compostela).Jadranka Verdonkschot has a PhD in Archaeology from the Universities of Amsterdam and Alcalá de Henares and is a postdoctoral researcher for XSCAPE Material Minds at the Institute of Heritage Sciences (INCIPIT-CSIC, Santiago de Compostela).Chris Scarre has a PhD from the University of Cambridge and is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at Durham University.A. César González-García has a PhD in Astronomy from the RijkUniversiteit Groningen and is a staff researcher at the Institute of Heritage Sciences (INCIPIT-CSIC, Santiago de Compostela).Felipe Criado-Boado, Professor of Research, Institute of Heritage Sciences (INCIPIT-CSIC, Santiago de Compostela). He is Honorary Research Associate of McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and Research Professor at the CSIC.

• List of Figures and TablesList of Editors and Main AffiliationsList of Symposium SpeakersList of Volume Contributors (Alphabetical)List of Chapter ReviewersContributor BiographiesPrefaceChapter 1: Time, mobility and society: new approaches to megalithic monumentality in western and northern Europe – Chris ScarreChapter 2: Towards a high-resolution chronology of major megalithic monuments: Menga and Montelirio (Andalusia, Spain) – Leonardo García Sanjuán, Marta Díaz-Guardamino and Francisco José Sánchez-DíazChapter 3: Dissolving and contrasting. The secondary deposition of human cremains at Perdigões enclosure (3rd millennium BC, South Portugal) – Antonio Valera, Lucy Shaw Evangelista and Ricardo GodinhoChapter 4: Para-megalithism: alternative routes to understanding big stones – Jessica SmythChapter 5: Funnel Beaker Culture megaliths in northern Germany. A comparison of architectural elements between three regions – Anja BehrensChapter 6: Sardinian megalithic and rock-cut tombs in the context of the prehistoric western Mediterranean – Maria Grazia MelisChapter 7: Megaliths: the singularity of each element. Appropriation of distinct entities versus geometric constructions – Luc LaporteChapter 8: Current Research on Westphalian Megaliths – Kerstin SchierholdChapter 9: Preserved and demolished megaliths from the Danish Funnel Beaker Culture – Niels H. AndersenChapter 10: ‘Linking megaliths’. A computational approach to the study of movement and mobility in the megalithic complex of Galicia (Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula) – Miguel Carrero-Pazos and Devin A. WhiteChapter 11: Multi-method geophysical survey in megalithic landscapes: case studies from Ireland and Sweden – Stephen Davis, Tony Axelsson, Knut Rassmann and Karl-Göran SjögrenChapter 12: Geoglyphs, petroglyphs, and megaliths – Richard BradleyChapter 13: Building Space. A structural model of space in megalithic landscapes – Felipe Criado-Boado and Jadranka VerdonkschotChapter 14: Fathoming megaliths: social proxies and indictors for the study of the dolmens – Gail HigginbottomChapter 15: A reappraisal of megalithic orientations from Iberia and beyond: towards models of interpretation – A. César González-GarcíaChapter 16: Monuments of the dynasties – monuments of the people? Megaliths in Europe – Johannes Müller