Luc Laporte

Université de Rennes

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Jean-Paul Cros

Préhistoire et Technologie

Adrien Delvoye

University of Geneva

Hamady Bocoum

Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle

Sélim Djouad

Travaux et Recherches Archéologiques sur les Cultures, les Espaces et les Sociétés

Chris Scarre

Durham University

Matar Ndiaye

Cheikh Anta Diop University

Adama Athié

Cheikh Anta Diop University

Laurent Quesnel

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Primitiva Bueno Ramírez

Universidad de Alcalá

Jean-Marc Large

Université de Rennes

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Centre de Recherche en Archéologie, Archéosciences, Histoire

Ministère de la Culture

Annexon Biosciences (United States)

Defence Terrain Research Laboratory

Ministère de la Culture

Université de Bordeaux

Archéologies et Sciences de l’Antiquité

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Sengambien Megaliths

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) (2018)

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Les mégalithes du Sénégal et de la Gambie dans leur contexte régional

Afrique Archeologie et Arts (2017)

Luc Laporte Hamady Bocoum Adrien Delvoye Kléna Sanogo Jean Polet

Les architectures en pierre du mégalithisme sénégambien ont longtemps été considérées comme une entité autonome sur une partie du continent africain qui, traditionnellement, privilégie plutôt les constructions en terre crue. Nos connaissances sur ces monuments furent profondément modifiées par dix ans de recherches archéologiques sur la nécropole mégalithique de Wanar (Sénégal), classée au titre du patrimoine mondial de l’humanité. Cet article a pour objet de replacer ces découvertes dans leur contexte régional, intégrant alors les données disponibles sur les monuments funéraires d’époques protohistoriques au Sénégal comme au Mali, en Guinée, en Guinée-Bissau, au Libéria et en Sierra Leone, voire parfois plus largement encore. Les auteurs ont montré – d’une manière plus systématique que dans les travaux antérieurs – que plusieurs des caractéristiques des rites funéraires sénégambiens peuvent trouver écho dans l’ethnologie de l’Afrique de l’Ouest.

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Enceintes fossoyées néolithiques de l’Ouest de la France : nouvelles perspectives

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) (2019)

Luc Laporte Vincent Ard Catherine Bizien-Jaglin Audrey Blanchard Nicolas Fromont

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Les systèmes d'entrées des enceintes néolithiques de l'Ouest de la France

Jean-Noël Guyodo Audrey Blanchard Luc Laporte

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Ch.II.1.1.2. Archéologie de la moyenne vallée du Bao Bolon

Luc Laporte Matar Ndiaye Delvoye Adrien Jean-Paul Cros Aziz Ballouche

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Ch. II.3.3.7 – Restauration du monument XIV

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Ch. II.3.1.9 - Une petite perle discoïde en schiste recueillie dans la fosse n°2 du monument XX

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The Concept of Monumentality in the Research into Neolithic Megaliths in Western France

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) (2019)

Luc Laporte

This paper focuses on reviewing the monumentality associated with Neolithic megaliths in western France, in all its diversity. This region cannot claim to encompass the most megaliths in Europe, but it is, on the other hand, one of the rare regions where mega-liths were built recurrently for nearly three millennia, by very different human groups. We will first of all define the terms of the debate by explaining what we mean by the words monuments and meg-aliths and what they imply for the corresponding past societies in terms of materiality, conception of space, time and rhythms. The notion of the architectural project is central to this debate and it will be presented for each stage of this very long sequence. This will then lead to a discussion of the modes of human action on materials and the shared choices of certain past societies, which sometimes inspire us to group very different structures under the same label. For nearly 60 years, archaeologists in Europe have attempted to define the characteristics of each megalith-building human group, in terms of material cultures, funerary practices, symbolic representations and other remains of daily life. This was part of the opposition to the excesses of unbridled diffusionism or hasty functional-ist comparisons, for example. With the radiocarbon revolution, new chronologies have been established and regional studies have proliferated. Today, some authors rightfully highlight the unique and in-comparable aspects of the biography of each of these sites. Reflections on their common denominators have petered out, while the same term, however, still distinguishes them from all other monumental forms.

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Back and Forward: Neolithic Standing Stones and Iron Age Stelae in French Brittany

Oxford University Press eBooks (2015)

Luc Laporte Marie-Yvane Daire Gwenolé Kerdivel Elías López-Romero

The history of each place is always unique, and this also applies to each monument. Even the title of this book ﬁts in with a pattern of thought developed by R. Bradley (2010). This approach treats the way in which certain prehistoric monuments continue to focus our attention, and how new signiﬁcances come to be attributed well after their initial construction. In some cases these monuments are the result of a considerable collective investment. They often represent places of memory, sometimes providing vectors of identity that continue up to the present day. A certain number of these monuments continuously changed their function and conﬁguration through the course of time. They were successively the setting of events that their builders could not have imagined. However, owing to the scale as well as the lasting nature of their achievements, the builders assigned additional unique features to these monuments that others later adapted or simply exploited. Many megalithic monuments of western Europe underwent such a process. Consequently, this chapter also contains the seeds of a more general discussion about the deﬁnitions of megalithism (Laporte forthcoming). It is a question of timescales and rhythms, involving lived time just as well as measured time, seen at different geographical scales. This is because the biography of each monument cannot be explained as simply being the sum of events that are unique in each case and speciﬁc to each site. Our contribution to this volume takes as an example the standing stones of Brittany. The region considered here includes the depart- ments of Finistère, Morbihan, Côtes d’Armor, Ille-et-Vilaine and Loire-Atlantique; that is to say an area of approximately 34,300 square kilometres. In the popular imagination, the Iron Age stelae of this region are often associated with the standing stones of the Neolithic, as portrayed in one of the world’s best-selling comic books featuring Astérix the Gaul and Obélix the menhir deliveryman. How- ever, for more than a century, archaeologists have always striven to make a clear distinction between material realities that, ultimately, are rather different.

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Natural and artificial colours: the megalithic monuments of Brittany

Antiquity (2015)

Primitiva Bueno Ramírez Rodrigo de Balbín Behrmann Luc Laporte Philippe Gouézin Florian Cousseau

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