Chris Scarre

Durham University

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Brian M. Fagan

University of California, Santa Barbara

Luc Laporte

Université de Rennes

Charles J. Golden

Nova Southeastern University

Jean-Marc Large

Université de Rennes

Ludovic Soler

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

Tara Steimer-Herbet

University of Geneva

Laurent Nespoulous

Institut Français de Recherche sur l'Asie de l'Est

Roger Joussaume

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Janet Montgomery

Durham University

Leonardo García Sanjuán

Universidad de Sevilla

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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

University of Cambridge

University College London

Université de Rennes

Centre de Recherche en Archéologie, Archéosciences, Histoire

University of Oxford

State Hermitage Museum

Universidade de São Paulo

Oxford Archaeology

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Geology, Landscape and Meaning in the Megalithic Monuments of Western and Northern Europe

Archaeopress Publishing Ltd eBooks (2020)

Chris Scarre

Megalith

10.2307/j.ctv1zckz4z.10

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Antiquity (2015)

Chris Scarre

Nimrud has been described as “not the largest of the ancient capitals of Assyria, but [. . .] undoubtedly one of the most beautiful archaeological sites in northern Iraq”. When Layard first visited it in 1840 “[t]he spring rains had clothed the mound with the richest verdure, and the fertile meadows, which stretched around it, were covered with flowers of every hue [. . .] My curiosity had been greatly excited, and from that time I formed the design of thoroughly examining, whenever it might be in my power, these singular ruins” (Layard 1849). Five years later he began excavations, discovering two royal palaces and some of the famous Nimrud ivories. In his second season, the first of the famous colossal winged bulls and lions came to light, standing at the entrance to the temple of Ninurta. Thus was Nimrud brought back to public gaze, after more than two and a half thousand years of neglect.

Assyria

Moors

10.15184/aqy.2015.48

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The English Cemetery at Surat: Pre-Colonial Cultural Encounters in Western India

The Antiquaries Journal (2005)

Chris Scarre Judith Roberts

During the seventeenth century East India Company merchants settled in several cities of western India under the control of the Mughal Empire. The most important of these was Surat in Gujarat, where an English cemetery of impressive brick and stucco tombs was established. The style and nature of these monuments provide an insight into the cultural interactions that took place between the English merchants and the local population, as well as indicating the political aspirations of the East India Company officials. A description of these tombs, the earliest dating to 1649, is followed by a discussion of the origins of the cemetery, the chronology of the tombs and the identity and status of the dead. It is shown how the adoption of Indo-Islamic architectural styles for the earliest tombs was modified during the eighteenth century by the increasing use of Western architectural features, in line with growing British political power in India during this period. Changing architectural styles are paralleled by the changing attitudes of British visitors to the tombs from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries.

Chronology

10.1017/s0003581500074400

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Antiquity (2015)

Chris Scarre

The world is changing rapidly, and archaeology with it. Globalisation is rewiring the relationship that connects Europe and North America, with their long histories of archaeological research, to other regions, where archaeologists are throwing new light on prehistories and early histories that have hitherto been less intensively studied. The outcome is a shifting but more balanced picture of the human past at a global scale, and a better appreciation of the interactions that have shaped the modern world.

10.15184/aqy.2014.42

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Georges Germond: Inventaire des mégalithes de la France. 6: Deux-Sèvres (Gallia Préhistoire supplément, I.) Paris: Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1980. 290 pp., 8 pls., 121 figs. Frs. 165.

Antiquity (1982)

Chris Scarre

10.1017/s0003598x00044604

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Traditions and transformations in Neolithic France

Antiquity (1998)

Chris Scarre

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10.1017/s0003598x00087627

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Exploring time and matter in prehistoric monuments: debating absolute chronology and rare rocks in European megaliths

Chris Scarre Leonardo García Sanjuán David Wheatley

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Megalith

Absolute (philosophy)

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Application of luminescence dating and geomorphological analysis to the study of landscape evolution, settlement and climate change on the Channel Island of Herm

Journal of Archaeological Science (2013)

I.K. Bailiff Charles French Chris Scarre

The optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of sands and palaeosol horizons, sampled as part of an archaeological investigation and supported by geomorphological analysis, has been applied to identify critical stages in the development of the landscape on Herm, one of the Channel Islands that lies off the coast of Guernsey, on which megalithic monuments were constructed during the Neolithic period. In particular, there were three phases of significant aeolian activity during the prehistoric period, the onsets dated by OSL in this study to ca 4, 3 and 2.3 ka ago, where the first phase marked a significant change in the long term trend of aggradation of soils that persisted during the next two millennia. OSL ages were also obtained for palaeosols in which there was evidence of ploughing, placing this activity in the late 2nd millennium BC and the 4th and 13th centuries AD. The OSL ages for basal deposits of dune sands that cover the northern part of the island indicate that they were formed by phases of intense aeolian activity during the medieval period, commencing in the 13th century AD and continuing for several hundred years, which can be correlated with documented high intensity storms in the North Atlantic within the period 13th–15th centuries AD. The phases of significant aeolian activity dated by OSL to ca 4 and 2 ka ago can be linked with those detected in different regions of the North Atlantic coastal areas. The availability of chronologies for aeolian horizons provides a valuable tool in the study of the evolution of coastal landscape and how past coastal communities responded to climate change.

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10.1016/j.jas.2013.10.014

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Southwest Asia in the First Millennium b.c.

Routledge eBooks (2021)

Chris Scarre Brian M. Fagan Charles J. Golden

10.4324/9780429401008-11

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Jean Chapelot & Alain Schnapp (eds): La politique de l'archéologie en Europe. Actes de la table-ronde tenue à Paris les 4 et 5 avril 1976. Paris: Editions du CNRS, 1984. 132 pp.

Antiquity (1986)

Chris Scarre

Jean Chapelot & Alain Schnapp (eds): La politique de l'archéologie en Europe. Actes de la table-ronde tenue à Paris les 4 et 5 avril 1976. Paris: Editions du CNRS, 1984. 132 pp. - Volume 60 Issue 230

10.1017/s0003598x0005910x

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