MEGALITHISM - Sacred and Pagan Architecture in Prehistory de Alberto Pozzi
Ce livre nous ramène dans le temps vers le 5e-2e millénaire av. Aide nous à visualiser le monde de l’âge de pierre et ses constructions – menhirs, dolmens, rangées et cercles de pierres debout.
ACHETER
Naveta des Tudons
Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.
The Grand Menhir Brisé
of Locmariaquer, Morbihan, France.
The Taula of Torralba
d’en Salort, Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.
The Pierre des Feés
dolmen, Reignier, Haute Savoir, France
MEGALITHISM – THE BOOK
LE RÉSUMÉ
Il s’agit d’une synthèse de ce phénomène culturel étandu à des peuples different, né dans l’Europe Atlantique au début du V millénaire. Il se déroule au cours du Néolithique, du Chalcolithique et de l’Age du Bronz.
Il s’est développé dans l’Europe Centrale, dans le Caucase, aux bords et aux îles méditerranéennes. Dans l’Afrique du Nord et au Proche Orient.
Un mégalithisme different, sans aucun lien avec l’ancienne Europe, se répand dans une partie de l’Asie, en Polynésie, dans l’Amerique Central et du Sud pendant des périodes successives même récents.
Les aspectes concernand le bâtiments sont examinés et surtout ceux qui sont liés au monde sacré, même avec des référance bibliques et à la condamnation du culte des pierre de la part du Christianisme.
Ce livre décrit aussi l’art mégalithique qui comprend des gravures et des bas-reliefs sur pierre qui composent les structures et sur les monoliths anthropomorphes.
Stonehenge,
detail
The great Champ Dolent
menhir, Dol-de-Bretagna, Ille-et-Vilaine, France.
The Proleek Portal dolmen,
Dundalk, Ireland.
Lower slopes of Ranu Raraku
volcano with many almost completed moai never taken to destination, Easter Island.
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MEGALITHISM – THE BOOK
INDEX
Section one – Megalithism
1. Background and general description
Cupmarks
The Megalithic Yard
Mehalithic Structures and the Natural Enviroment
Megalithism and climate
Table: Chronological Framework of Cultural Phases in History
Map: Spread of Atlantic or Ancient-European Megalithism
2. Prehistoric worship and the cult of stones
Megalithism, the Bible and the Cult of Stones
The Sanctuary on Mount Ebal
The Cult of Stones and the Bible
Is har karkom the real mt. Sinai of the Bible?
Was the holy mountain of Har Karkom known to the Sumerians and the Akkadians?
3. Megalithism in popular legend
A Pre-Christian, Matrimonial rite celebrated in dolmens
Local Legends of the Druidic Origins of Megaliths
4. Methods of construction and social organisation
Transporting obelisks in historical times
5. Megalithic art
Statue-Stele, an anthropomorphic stele and historiated boulders
The kurgan, a nomadic, proto-indo-european people
Map: Distribution of Statue-Stele, Statue-Menhirs and Historiated Boulders
6. Cyclopean structures and corbelled roofs.
Section two – Megalithism in different geographic areas
7. Western Europe: the iberian peninsula
Portugal
Villages coeval to megalithic structures
Spain
8. Central-western Europe
France
Iron age stele
9. North-western Europe – The british archipelago
The British Isles
Stonehenge in legend and ancient history
Ireland
10. Central-northern Europe
The great ring structures
11. Central-southern Europe
The megalithic face of borzone (liguria, italy)
The sowing of teeth
12. South-eastern Europe and Asia Minor
The kurgans
13. The Canary Islands and islands of the mediterranean sea
Collecting water by condensation
14. The near east
Baalbek
15. Northern Africa
The tomb of antaeus
Libya
The stone statues of the Nyonyosi
The lighthouse of Alexandria
16. Tropical Africa
The enigma of the intercontinental correlations
17. An outline of the megalithism of Asia, Oceania and the Americas
The equadorian tolas and the other truncated pyramids of the world
Geoglyphs
Conclusions
Appendix: the ‘mysteries’ of archaeology
Alberto Pozzi
THE AUTHOR
ALBERTO POZZI
Alberto Pozzi was born on the shores of Lake Como in Lombardy, Italy, where he still resides with his wife, Anna; they have two daughters and a son as well as four grandchildren.
His classical studies paved the way for more than fifty years dedicated to various branches of archaeology – prehistoric worship, rupestrian or rock art and, above all, megalithism; this has taken him on many trips to the four corners of the earth to visit megalithic sites, photograph them, and to try to uncover their secrets.
He is active in several associations for the Study of Prehistory and has taken part in excavation missions both in Lombardy and in Western Thebes, Luxor, Egypt.
