Finalese

This article does not presume to summarize the immense complexity of megalithism in France over a period of nearly three millenia, but rather to contribute a few elements of reflection to the numerous  research directions it inspires. It first insists on the importance of finally eliminating a number of accepted ideas; among which, the tendency to systematically classify the architecture of burial spaces in function of their “apparent” complexity, from the most simple to the most elaborate. Numerous examples show that the megalithic  phenomenon is complex, not linear. Each monument, today in ruins, is the result of several architectural projects, in the true sense of the term. The construction of a site, supposes at the same time a  succession of technical acts that also merit detailed study, in the same manner as that which specialists of the Medieval period call the archeology of construction. We also wish to emphasize the necessity of addressing Megalithism from the perspective of architecture, grave goods and human remains (when they are preserved), as these three aspects are often intertwined. Finally, a megalithic monument must be understood in its space, the funerary space in the broad sense, as well as the burial space. From this perspective, a multitude of question and numerous research directions appear. Megalithism is not an outdated subjet, but an innovative one, for which much remains to be done.

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"Análisis epigráfico de las inscripciones -presuntamente megalíticas- del tholos de la Zarcita, Huelva.
"Una Golondrina no hace verano"
Georgeos Díaz-Montexano, "Sociedad Epigráfica de España" & "The International Epigraphic Scoiety".

"En la Península Ibérica ya se utilizaba la escritura miles de años antes que los fenicios aparecieran por sus costas", esta la tesis que ahora defiende la doctora en Historia Antigua, Ana María Vázquez Hoys1, si bien hay que señalar que en realidad es la más reciente investigadora que se suma a una vieja teoría planteada y defendida ya desde principios del pasado siglo, por varios autores -nacionales y extranjeros- y que actualmente es también defendida, desde hace un par de décadas, por otros dos investigadores, quienes han reunido indicios por casi toda la península ibérica2. El estudio de la Dra. Vázquez Hoys se centra fundamentalmente en un fenómeno local, unas inscripciones o grafitos, hallados en dos útiles prehistóricos, encontrados en sepulcros megalíticos de Huelva (España), y que se conservan en el museo de la capital onubense, donde se encuentran expuestos al público. No son las únicas muestras, existen otras en el sur peninsular...

Debemos poner en duda lo que hasta ahora se consideró como verdad irrefutable, el que fueran los fenicios quienes nos enseñaron a escribir -sostiene la Dr. Vázquez Hoys- ¿Y si, en realidad, hubiera ocurrido lo contrario? ¿Y si esos pueblos del mar que toda la mitología del Mediterráneo Oriental sitúa en la Península Ibérica, hubieran enseñado, en verdad, a los fenicios? ¿Escribirían los fenicios sus propios Anales en una escritura de Occidente? 3 Son estas las mismas preguntas que ya se realizaron otros autores antes."

Segnalazione di ritovamenti effettuati nelle due cavità.
In:  Notiziario di Preistoria e Protostoria 4.II - 2017, "Neolitico ed età dei Metalli, Italia settentrionale e peninsulare", Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria, Firenze, pp. 25-26, ISSN 2384-8758.

This article presents the results of six years of excavation at Tumulus C in the megalithic cemetery of Prissé-la-Charrière (Deux-Sèvres). This is a trapezoidal mound 115 metres long, 30 metres wide and 4 metres high, that was constructed in several stages. The earliest stage that has so far been documented consists of a small funerary monument measuring 7.2 metres east-west and 8.8 metres wide. It was built largely of earth, and contained a cist open on one side and enclosed within a circular dry-stone mass. At a later stage, the entrance to the cist was blocked and the monument extended towards the east to form a long mound 23 metres in length. This mound was entirely surrounded by an encircling ditch. Later still, the 100-metre trapezoidal long mound was built, enclosing the earlier long mound within its western terminal. This extended mound contains at least one megalithic chamber of quadrangular plan, accessed by a passage opening from the northern façade approximately 1/3 of the distance from the western terminal. The chamber has yielded Middle Neolithic material. The significance of these discoveries are discussed in relation to existing understanding of the megalithic monuments in this region of France, with particular regard to the question of origins.

The IVth meeting of an international workgroup will gather together, in Rennes, from 10 to 12 May 2012, several of the leading European specialists on the theme of megalithic monuments (about twenty speakers from some ten different nationalities). Following the international colloquium at Bougon (Deux-Sèvres) which was held in 2002 (Joussaume, Laporte, Scarre, 2006), meetings of the European Megalithic Studies Group took place in Göteborg in Sweden ( 2004 ), in Seville in Spain ( 2008 ) and in Kiel in Germany ( 2010 ). This will be the first time for more than thirty years that the city of Rennes will welcome a high-level scientific meeting specifically dedicated to the study of megalithic monuments. It is organized within the framework of a program entitled " Megalithic monuments of the Atlantic zone and beyond " which is supported in particular by the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme de Bretagne. It will comprise two days of oral communications, open to the general public, in the Auditorium of the Museum of Brittany, in Rennes. They will be accompanied by the presentation of posters about current work on megalithic monuments in France, in Europe and in the World.

Segnalazione di ritrovamento di ceramiche dell'età del Rame in un anfratto nei pressi della Caverna Pollera (Finale Ligure - SV).
Notiziario di Preistoria e Protostoria 4.II - 2017, "Neolitico ed età dei Metalli, Italia settentrionale e peninsulare", Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria, Firenze, pp. 26-27, ISSN 2384-8758.