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Mégalithismes vivants et passés: approches croisées: Living and Past Megalithisms: interwoven approaches

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Megalithic monuments from Neolithic Europe have long been considered as rough copies of the monumental architectures built by the first civilizations of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. When radiocarbon dating jeopardized this diffusionist pattern, though, specialists could not but wonder why and how these Neolithic societies, usually considered as small ‘village communities’, had erected such monuments. In order to answer these questions and seek explanations in the social, political or religious contexts of recent or present megalith-building societies, the ethnological frame of references has been referred to on a regular basis. This volume comprises the papers presented by prehistorians and ethnologists at the two multi-disciplinary round tables held in Strasburg in May 2014 and May 2015. Their purpose was, with the help of both case studies and more synthetic works, to discuss how the patterns drawn from the observation of ‘living’ megalithic societies have been used to try and shed light on the functioning of European Neolithic societies, the epistemological problems raised by this transposition and the relevance of ethnology-based archeological explanations. The book is composed of three the first one deals with some methodological reflections, the second and third ones with the ‘living’ or recent megalithisms of respectively the Indonesian Archipelago and Ethiopia.

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Avant-propos : archéologues et ethnologues autour du mégalithisme, une approche interdisciplinaire

Hommage à Alain Testart (1945-2013) (Valérie Lécrivain)

L’homme de l’alliance : Alain Testart (Pierre Le Roux)

Mégalithismes entre passé et

De l’Île de Pâques aux mégalithes du Morbihan. Un demi-siècle de confrontation entre ethnologie et archéologie autour du mégalithisme (Christian Jeunesse)

Quelles interrogations pour les études mégalithiques ? (Alain Gallay)

Qu’est-ce que le mégalithisme ? (Bruno Boulestin)

Indonésie –

Big Animals and Big An Ethnoarchaeological Exploration of the Social Dynamics of Livestock Use in Megalithic Societies of Eastern Indonesia (Ron L. Adams)

The Ngorek of the Central Highlands and ‘Megalithic’ Activity in Borneo (Bernard Sellato)

Pertinence du modèle ethnographique malgache pour l’étude des sépultures collectives du Néolithique récent-final du Bassin parisien (Somme, Marne, Aisne) (Marie Théry)

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François Bernardin Azaïs et les débuts de l’archéologie éthiopienne (Jean-Paul Cros)

Une expédition allemande chez les Konso en 1934-1935 (Christian Jeunesse)

Monumentalisme et populations de langues est-couchitiques en Éthiopie. 1 – Une approche anthropologique (Alain Gallay)

Monumentalisme et populations de langues est-couchitiques en Éthiopie. 2 – Une approche historique (Alain Gallay)

Sites anciens à stèles et sociétés mégalithiques récentes de la Rift Valley éthiopienne (Roger Joussaume)

Aux confins de l¹Éthiopie, du Soudan et du Kenya. Un Béotien sur les traces de « mégalithismes » (Serge Tornay)

306 pages, Paperback

Published May 19, 2016

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