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Megalithic Tombs

Megalithic Tombs is a mortuary structure characterized by the use of large stones in its construction, typically serving as collective burial sites within prehistoric landscapes and distinguished from other funerary monuments by its scale, architectural permanence, and communal depositional practices.

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170

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105

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2017–2026

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Variants

Megalithic Burial Chambers

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Publications

64

Megalithic tombs in western and northern Neolithic Europe were linked to a kindred society

Federico Sánchez‐Quinto, Helena Malmström, Magdalena Fraser et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2019 · 144 citations · Full text

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Phenomenology and the Megaliths of Wales: a Dreaming Too Far?

Andrew Fleming · Oxford Journal of Archaeology · 1999 · 68 citations

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A Community in Life and Death: The Late Neolithic Megalithic Tomb at Alto de Reinoso (Burgos, Spain)

Kurt W. Alt, Stephanie Zesch, Rafael Garrido Peña et al. · PLoS ONE · 2016 · 66 citations · Full text

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The Structural Mechanics of the Mycenaean Tholos Tomb

W. G. Cavanagh, R. R. Laxton · The Annual of the British School at Athens · 1981 · 62 citations

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Almost Eating the Ancestors

Maurice Bloch · Man · 1985 · 62 citations

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Authors

170

  1. GA
    Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez

    Universidad de Granada, Spain

    4 publications · 78 citations

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  2. LM
    Lara Milesi García

    Universidad de Granada, Spain

    3 publications · 57 citations

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  3. MD
    Marta Díaz‐Zorita Bonilla

    University of Tübingen, Germany

    3 publications · 57 citations

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  4. RB
    Richard Bradley

    University of Reading, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 106 citations

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  5. JA
    Juan Antonio Belmonte

    Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Spain

    3 publications · 49 citations

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Institutions

105

  1. Universidad de Granada

    Granada, Spain

    4 h-index

    13 publications

    267 citations

  2. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

    Madrid, Spain

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    75 citations

  3. Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre

    Glasgow, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    57 citations

  4. Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

    Tenerife, Spain

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    49 citations

  5. University of Reading

    Reading, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    138 citations

  6. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

    Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

    2 h-index

    7 publications

    103 citations

  7. Arthur B. McDonald-Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute

    Kingston, Canada

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    24 citations

  8. University of Gothenburg

    Gothenburg, Sweden

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    118 citations

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Venues

  1. Antiquity

    13 publications · 389 citations

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  2. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society

    PPS · 9 publications · 192 citations

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  3. Oxford Journal of Archaeology

    9 publications · 252 citations

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  4. Journal for the History of Astronomy

    JHA · 4 publications · 80 citations

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  5. World Archaeology

    3 publications · 144 citations

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