Session C68 (Part I): Monumental Questions: Prehistoric Megaliths Mounds and Enclosures

Papers from Session C68 (Part I) of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006); Contents: 1) Megalithisme et sedentarisation en Europe occidentale (Jean-Pierre Mohen); 2) Some stones can speak! The social structure, identity and territoriality of SW Atlantic Europe complex appropriator communities reflected in their standing stones (David Calado et al); 3) Time and signs: Southern Portuguese megalithic art diachrony (Mario Varela Gomes); 4) Megaliths as rock art in Alentejo, Southern Portugal (Manuel Calado & Leonor Rocha); 5) "The-teeth-under-the-sky": mountain steles and green stone workings in the Kuznetskii Alatau, Southern Siberia (Khakassia, Russia) (S. Cassen et al.); 6) Neolithic rock art at the Avebury stone circles in Southern England (Terence Meaden et al); 7) Ciertos aspectos funerarios en la necropolis del III milenio de Valencina-Castilleja (Sevilla) (Rosario Cruz-Aunon et al.); 8) Estudio geoarqueologico del conjunto de los dolmenes de Antequera (Malaga, Espana) (Francisco Carrion Mendez et al.); 9) More than big stones! Peripheral and confined or resistant lineage societies in the pristine class-society territorial framework of the South-Western Iberian Peninsula (2900-2000 BC) (Francisco Nocete & Ana Peramo); 10) Moon, spring and large stones - landscape and ritual calendar perception and symbolization (Catarina Oliveira & C. Marciano Da Silva); 11) Megaliths, memory and the power of stones (Chris Scarre); 12) Landscape, architectural and ritual aspects of the Chalcolithic (Calcolithic) sanctuaries in the Lombardy Alps (Italy) (Raffaella Poggiani Keller); 13) Anonymous ancestors? The Tilley/Shanks hypothesis revisited (Karl-Goran Sjogren); 14) Two Neolithic enclosures at Sormas-Torok-Foldek (Southwest-Transdanubia, Hungary) and their possible geometrical and astronomical role: a case study (Judit P. Barna & Emilia Pasztor); 15) Houses of living and houses of dead in the Neolithic and Copper Age of Central Europe (Jan Turek); 16) La region de Tagrera (Tassili-wan-Ahaggar, Ahaggar, Algerie) - representations rupestres et monuments funeraires protohistoriques (Iddir Amara et al.); 17) Structured deposition and ditched enclosures in the Late Prehistory of Southern Iberia (IV-III millennia B.C.) (Victor Jimenez Jaimez & Jose Enrique Marquez Romero).