ISBN:
978-1-78491-345-8
Language:
French
,
English
Pages:
x, 294 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Keywords:
Archäologie Megalith
;
Prähistorie
;
Neolithikum
;
Äthiopien
;
Indonesien
Abstract:
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 sections: 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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Avant-propos : archeologues et ethnologues autour du megalithisme, une approche interdisciplinaire; Hommage a Alain Testart (1945-2013) (Valerie Lecrivain); L'homme de l'alliance : Alain Testart (Pierre Le Roux); Megalithismes entre passe et present:; De l'Ile de Paques aux megalithes du Morbihan. Un demi-siecle de confrontation entre ethnologie et archeologie autour du megalithisme (Christian Jeunesse); Quelles interrogations pour les etudes megalithiques ? (Alain Gallay); Qu'est-ce que le megalithisme ? (Bruno Boulestin); Indonesie - Madagascar:; Big Animals and Big Stones: 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 modele ethnographique malgache pour l'etude des sepultures collectives du Neolithique recent-final du Bassin parisien (Somme, Marne, Aisne) (Marie Thery); Ethiopie:; Francois Bernardin Azais et les debuts de l'archeologie ethiopienne (Jean-Paul Cros); Une expedition allemande chez les Konso en 1934-1935 (Christian Jeunesse); Monumentalisme et populations de langues est-couchitiques en Ethiopie. 1 - Une approche anthropologique (Alain Gallay); Monumentalisme et populations de langues est-couchitiques en Ethiopie. 2 - Une approche historique (Alain Gallay); Sites anciens a steles et societes megalithiques recentes de la Rift Valley ethiopienne (Roger Joussaume); Aux confins de l'Ethiopie, du Soudan et du Kenya. Un Beotien sur les traces de " megalithismes " (Serge Tornay)
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