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Reception of participants
Official speeches
♦ The word of the organizers ♦
Introducing conferences to the meeting (2h)
⊳ Mediterranean megalithism: a long history
GUILAINE Jean (40’)
⊳ Beyond comparison - the diversity of megalith building
BRADLEY Richard (40’)
⊳ Megalithism... but again? For a theoretical approach to funerary monumentalism
GALLAY Alain (40’)
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Megaliths from Rapa Nui to Indonesia (4h)
♦ General introduction ♦
N. CAUWE, B. DAVID, T. STEIMER (10’)
⊳ Polynesian Megaliths: A Genealogical and Dynamic Architecture
CAUWE Nicolas (40’)
⊳ Traveling Stones and the Materiality of Permanence in the Papuan Gulf (Papua New Guinea) and Australia
BELL Joshua, DAVID Bruno (40’)
⊳ Monumental architecture in a World of Oceanic « small Islands (Micron-Nesia) »
SAND Christophe (40’)
⊳ Rise and disappearance of Indonesian megaliths
STEIMER Tara (30’)
⊳ Megaliths of Sumatra and Nias: A Life Cycle Assessment
BONATZ Dominik (30’)
⊳ The social context of megalithic practice, an ethnoarchaeological approach: what we can learn from current megalith builders of Sumba (Indonesia)?
JEUNESSE Christian (30’)
⊳ Menhirs of Tana Toraja, Indonesia: A Preliminary Ethnoarchaeological Assessment
ADAMS Ron, ROBIN Guillaume (30’)
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Megaliths from Eastern and Central Asia (4h)
♦ General introduction ♦
L. NESPOULOUS et al. (10’)
⊳ The Manifold Megalithism of East Asia
NESPOULOUS Laurent (30’)
⊳ Megaliths in Japanese prehistoric and protohistoric times
KIKUCHI Yoshio (30’)
⊳ Dolmens on the Korean Peninsula
SON Joon-ho (30’)
⊳ Prehistoric Cairns and Dolmens in Manchuria, China
MIYAMOTO Kazuo (30’)
⊳ Monuments in the mountains: the megalithic graves of western China
HEIN Anke (40’)
⊳ Adorned megaliths and funerary complexes at the Bronze Age in Mongolia
MAGAIL Jérôme (40’)
⊳ Megalithic traditions in early Bronze Age of Mongolian Altaï : Chermuchek (qie'murqieke) cultural phenomenon
KOVALEV Alexei (40’)
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Megaliths from sub-Saharian Africa (4h)
♦ General introduction ♦
H. BOCOUM, L. LAPORTE, J.-P. CROS (10’)
⊳ Eastern Africa : 5 millenium of megalithism
CROS Jean-Paul (40’)
⊳ Ng’amoratunga pillar sites of northwest Kenya
HILDEBRAND Elisabeth (40’)
⊳ Megaliths in Madagascar
PARKER-PEARSON Mike (40')
⊳ Megaliths from Senegal and Gambia in their regional context
LAPORTE Luc, BOCOUM Hamady, CROS Jean-Paul, NDIAYE Matar, DELVOYE Adrien, DJOUAD Selim, BALLOUCHE Aziz, LAMOTTE Pierre (40’)
⊳ Megaliths of Nigeria: The Footprints of Ancient Civilisation
EDET Abu S., SULE Abubakar S. (40’)
⊳ Why Megaliths in sub-Saharan Africa? Some Thoughts on Monumentality and Materiality
INSOLL Timothy (40’)
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Oldest megaliths known in the state of art (2h)
⊳ Göbekli Tepe World Heritage Site (WHS), Şanlıurfa: Changing Perspectives
CLARE Lee (40’)
⊳ Larger than life: Monumentality of the landscape and nonhuman imagery at Lepenski Vir
BORIC Dušan (40’)
⊳ On the Atlantic shores. The origin of megaliths in Europe?
LAPORTE Luc, SCARRE Chris, BUENO RAMIREZ Primitiva (40’)
♦ Poster Session (2h) ♦
21 oral presentations of 7 mn each
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Thematic presentations (2h)
⊳ From megalithic ruins to the building site : architectural projects, symbolic or technical systems, action onto materials
LAPORTE Luc (30’)
⊳ From the Throne of Stone to Funeral Chambers : myths and megaliths in Eastern Asia (Korea and Japon)
NESPOULOUS Laurent, MACE Francois (30’)
⊳ Megalithism genesis, the building of a cultural identity for a better circulation of goods
STEIMER Tara (30’)
⊳ Megaliths, landscapes and skyscapes: the broader perspective
SCARRE Chris (30’)
Megaliths in America (2h)
♦ General introduction ♦
J. OLIVER, L. LAPORTE (5’)
⊳ Precolumbian megaliths of the caribbean : plazas and "Bateyes"
OLIVER José (40’)
⊳ Personhood, Place and Power : An Overview of Megalithic Traditions from Andean South America
MCEWAN Colin (40’)
⊳ The Rise of Monumentality at the Mouth of the Amazon
DARCY de MOURA SALDANHA saldanha joao (20’)
⊳ Two megalithic ceremonial centres in the Atacama Desert (Chile)
PERLES Catherine, NUÑEZ Lautaro (20’)
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Megaliths from South-Eastern Asia and India (4h)
♦ General introduction ♦
R. K. MOHANTY, J. MÜLLER (10’)
⊳ Northeast Indian Megalithic monuments and social structures
JAMIR Tiatoshi, MÜLLER Johannes (40’)
⊳ Setting the wider frame : A comparison of recent megalith building traditions in Sumba (Indonesia) and Nagaland (India)
WUNDERLICH Maria (20’)
⊳ Stone Jars of Northeast Indian and Southeast Asia: Problem and Prospect
THAKURIA Tilok (40’)
⊳ Megaliths and Megalithism in India, with Special Reference to Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, India
MOHANTY RABINDRA Kumar (40’)
⊳ Situating Megalithic Monuments in South India: Content and Context
RAJAN K. (40’)
⊳ Megaliths in Sindh, Pakistan
ZULFIQAR ALI Kalhoro (40’)
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Visits of megalithic sites of Tumulus C de Péré and Bougon, Museum of de Bougon, and sites in Vendée |
Megaliths from Caucasus, Middle East and the Arabian peninsula (4h)
♦ General introduction ♦
V. TRIFONOV, T. STEIMER (10’)
⊳ The Bronze Age megaliths in the Caucasus: development trajectory of the architecture and the funeral practice
TRIFONOV Viktor (40’)
⊳ The megalithic and rock-cut monuments on the Balkans
NEKHRIZOV Georgi, TZVETKOVA Julia (40’)
⊳ At the intersection of continents – megalithism in Turkey
YÜKMEN EDENS Bakiye (40’)
⊳ Megaliths of the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant
STEIMER Tara (40’)
⊳ Untangling megalith typologies and chronologies in the Levant
FRASER James (40’)
⊳ The tomb towers of protohistoric Arabia
MUNOZ Olivia (20’)
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Mégalithes en Afrique du Nord et en Europe (4h)
♦ General introduction ♦
A. GALLAY, C. SCARRE (10’)
⊳ Types of monumentalism and burial rites of the central and eastern Sahara
GALLAY Alain (40’)
⊳ Neolithic monuments with standing stones of north-western Sahara
VERNET Robert (40’)
⊳ The megalithic necropolises of the Eastern Magrib
SANMARTI Joan (40’)
⊳ Megalithic art: funeral scenarios in Neolithic Europe.
BUENO-RAMÍREZ Primitiva, BALBÍN-BEHRMANN Rodrigo de, BARROSO-BERMEJO Rosa (40’)
⊳ Megaliths from North and northwest France, Britain and Ireland
SCARRE Chris et LAPORTE Luc (40’)
⊳ Early Monumentality and Social Differentiation of the northern Funnel Beaker Societies
SJÖGREN Karl-Göran, MÜLLER Johannes (40’)
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♦ Discussions and debate (2h) ♦
♦ Closing session of the meeting (1h) ♦
At the suggestion of the Steering Committee, a synthesis of the meeting will be offered by Luc Laporte, Director of Research at the CNRS, with contributions from the other participants.
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