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Les megalithes du departement du Morbihan Philippe Gouezin (Associate Researcher, UMR 6566 - CReAAH - Universite de Rennes 1)

Les megalithes du departement du Morbihan By Philippe Gouezin (Associate Researcher, UMR 6566 - CReAAH - Universite de Rennes 1)

Les megalithes du departement du Morbihan by Philippe Gouezin (Associate Researcher, UMR 6566 - CReAAH - Universite de Rennes 1)


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Based on a corpus of architectural plans comprising 1413 megalithic monuments from the Department of Morbihan, including more than 250 unpublished monuments, this book aims at a better understanding of megalithism, or more precisely megalithisms, and presents a new approach to the relationship between standing stones (menhirs) and tombs (dolmens).

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Les megalithes du departement du Morbihan: Structures funeraires et pierres dresses / Analyses architecturales et spatiales by Philippe Gouezin (Associate Researcher, UMR 6566 - CReAAH - Universite de Rennes 1)

Les megalithes du departement du Morbihan aims at a better understanding of megalithism, or more precisely megalithisms, and presents a new approach to the relationship between standing stones (menhirs) and tombs (dolmens). The architectural analyses developed raise questions about their complementarity. They are based on a corpus of architectural plans comprising 1413 megalithic monuments from the Department of Morbihan, including 13,200 vertical slabs, the result of thirty years of research and field observations, and including more than 250 unpublished monuments. Two main approaches are discussed: descriptive architectural analysis of the plans on the one hand, and analysis of landscape and environmental elements on the other. The parallels between the stones erected in the open air and those, sometimes identical in their dimensions, their morphology and their geology, which constitute the rooms, the corridors, and the facings of the funerary monuments, consolidate and develop observations already made by other archaeologists on the reuse of these Neolithic standing stones. The observation that these parallels extend to the symmetry and aestheticism of the structures is quite new. These unprecedented and convincing results brought by this analysis of the alignments of standing stones and funerary architectures demonstrate how a subject that has been explored since the nineteenth century by many researchers can still reveal hidden truths.

About Philippe Gouezin (Associate Researcher, UMR 6566 - CReAAH - Universite de Rennes 1)

Dr Philippe Gouezin obtained his doctorate in archaeology and archaeometry in 2017 at the University of Rennes 1 at the CReAAH UMR 6566 CNRS laboratory. A specialist in European megalithism and particularly in its architecture, he is director of several research projects in France and also participates in multiple archaeological projects on megalithism in Africa. He is particularly interested in the interaction between the natural world, the world of the dead and the world of the living.

Table of Contents

Preface ;

Presentation liminaire ;

Remerciements ;

La neolithisation.... ;

Chapitre 1 : Introduction ;
Problematique ;
Le cadre geographique de l'etude ;
Historique des pensees, ce qui a change en Bretagne ;
Methodologie ;
L'echantillon des megalithes du departement du Morbihan ;
Typologie et terminologie, un vocabulaire a actualiser ;
Une approche de la chronologie ;

Chapitre 2 : Le Corpus ;
Les pierres dressees a l'air libre ;
Les paires de pierres dressees a l'air libre (M1A2) ;
Conclusions et discussions ;
Les espaces sepulcraux ;
Conclusions et comparaisons ;
Le tumulus , definition et typologie ;

Chapitre 3 : Construction d'une architecture ;
Pierres dressees et masses tumulaires ;
Les pierres dressees isolees sur tumulus ou a proximite immediate ;
Pierres dressees et espaces sepulcraux ;
Espaces sepulcraux et masses tumulaires ;
Les rapports de superficies entre les tumulus et les espaces sepulcraux ;
Construction d'une architecture, conclusion ;
Bilan architectural du corpus. Analyse des resultats par type de dispositif ;

Chapitre 4 : Construction d'un paysage ;
Une approche par la phenomenologie ;
Les liens avec le mineral ;
Les liens avec les reseaux hydrographiques ;
Les liens avec les orientations astronomiques ;
Construction du paysage, conclusions ;
Synthese ;

Chapitre 5 : Discusion, conclusions ;
Introduction ;
Comment dater une architecture ? ;
Megalithes du Neolithique moyen I (Periode 4700-4300 avant J.C.) ;
De la chronologie aux assemblages de pierres dressees, analyse croisee des resultats entre les espaces sepulcraux et les dispositifs de pierres dressees a l'air libre ;
Tenter d'acceder aux intentions des batisseurs : nature du projet architectural ;
Conclusion ;

Chapitre 6 : Perspectives ;

Chapitre 7 : Bibliographie ;

Chapitre 8 : Megalithes du departement du Morbihan pris en compte pour cette etude

Additional information

NGR9781803270388
9781803270388
1803270381
Les megalithes du departement du Morbihan: Structures funeraires et pierres dresses / Analyses architecturales et spatiales by Philippe Gouezin (Associate Researcher, UMR 6566 - CReAAH - Universite de Rennes 1)
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2022-05-12
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