Christopher Scarre

Megalithic Quarrying: Sourcing, Extracting and Manipulating the Stones (Proceedings of the Xv Uispp World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006)) - British Archaeological Reports International Series Christopher Scarre

Contents: Preface (Chris Scarre); 1) Stony Ground: outcrops, rocks and quarries in the creation of megalithic monuments (Chris Scarre); 3) The Megalithic Building Site (Torben Dehn); 4) Hunebedden and Huenengraber: the construction of megalithic tombs west of the River Elbe (Jan Albert Bakker); 5) The Gallery Graves of Hesse and Westphalia, Germany: extracting and working the stones ( Kerstin Schierhold); 6) Beyond Stonehenge: seeking the start of the bluestone trail (Timothy Darvill); 7) Architectonique et esthetique des alignements de menhirs du sud de la Vendee (France) (Gerard Beneteau-Douillard); 8) Technologie des megalithes dans lOuest de la France: la carriere du Rocher Mouton a Besne (Loire-Atlantique, France) (Emmanuel Mens); 9) Exploitation de la pierre et mise en uvre des materiaux sur le site neolithique du Souch en Plouhinec (Finistere, France) (Michel Le Goffic); 10) Transforming Stone: ethnoarchaeological perspectives on megalith form in Eastern Indonesia (Ron L. Adams).