Oral presentation at the „Ein bunter Mix des Neolithikums”, Sitzung der AG Neolithikum im Rahmen der Jahrestagung des MOVA gemeinsam mit dem WSVA und dem NWVA, vom 08. – 09. September 2025 in Frankfurt a. O. web-site, program, abstracts Abstract: Oliver Grau The megalithic monuments of Northern Europe (here focusing on Germany and Scandinavia) continue …
This is an experimental setup to open available data to public. Hoika Database This is a converted database from the J. Hoika, MEGAGRA Megalith Database (2011), a recovered research data of Dr. Jürgen Hoika. Latest version of a data collection comprising 1033 records of megalith graves in Schleswig-Holstein. Licence:Creative Commons BY-NY-SA. Further informations : Html …
Walking down the very gentle slopes from Stennes towards the Stones of Stennes and the Ness of Brodgar, gives the sense of approaching the center of something important. Orkney Islands or just Orkney consist of about 70 islands of which the larger 20 are inhabited. The islands are just 16 km North of Caithness county …
The location and orientation of megalithic monuments has been chosen very carefully by their builders. The orientation towards celestial constellations has been subject of many discussions and interpretations (see Archaeoastronomy). However, monuments were placed so that they correspond to other features either in the landscape or other man made structures. They present visible landmarks embedded in a spatial context forming megalithic landscapes.
Pottery is one of the most often found archaeological item from the Neolithic. More or less complete pieces are found. However, there are many finds of sherds from pottery that seem to be deliberately destroyed. Many seem associated with ritual activities around entrances of Megalithic monuments. Locations Sherd depositions are reported from a number sites …
The term dolmen from the Breton words taol for table and maen for stone was initially used for the horizontal cover stones of chambered megalithic monuments and from late 18th and the 19th was used in France to describe two or more uprights with at least one cover stone. Although many national and regional names …
Archaeologists have named the Neolithic communities funnel beaker culture after the characteristic type of beaker pottery created by that people. The top of the beakers is formed like a funnel. The so called Funnel beaker culture, short TRB from (German) Trichterbecherkultur (ca 4000 BC–2700 BC) covered big parts of the North of Europe. The TRB …