Orientations of Dolmens of western Europe: Summary and conclusions

Journal for the History of Astronomy

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 507-514

  Hoskin, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 54449083759     PISSN: 00218286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002182860803900405     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. For a list, see the Bibliography (above).
2. In particular at Fontvieille, see below.
3. Most notably at Los Millares in Almeria, see MH, Tombs, 57. The tombs stemming from the Fontvieille tradition have rectangular chambers whose sidewalls are wholly or partly drystone, see MH, Tombs, 139, 144, 145;
4. Bibliography, art. 18.
5. Most notably in the arques amb vestíbul pou of Catalunya, of which El Salt d'en Peió is the best example. See J. Tarrús and J. Chinchílla, Els monuments megalítics (Girona, 1992), 51, and the works by Font Cop cited in ref. 19 below.
6. MH, Tombs, 132;
7. Bibliography, art. 17.
8. See Bibliography, art. 14.
9. See Bibliography, art. 16.
10. MH, Tombs, 95-100;
11. Bibliography, art. 11.
12. MH, Tombs, 109, where there are arithmetical errors: for 335 read 323;
13. for 346 read 334;
14. and for 336 read 324.
15. MH, Tombs, 66-67;
16. Bibliography, art. 2.
17. MH, Tombs, 59-62;
18. Bibliography, art. 3.
19. MH, Tombs, 213, with arithmetical error corrected.
20. MH, Tombs, chap. 8;
21. Bibliography, art. 17.
22. Bibliography, art. 13.
23. Bibliography, art. 14.
24. Bibliography, art. 15 and 16.
25. Bibliography, art. 19. These tombs are thought to date either to the middle of the fourth millennium B.C., or to the second half of the third millennium.
26. MH, Tombs, chap. 9;
27. Bibliography, art. 18.
28. MH, Tombs, chap. 10. In an important doctoral thesis at Barcelona University, "Les orientacions dels sepulcres de corredor, galeries catalanes i arques amb vestíbul-pou de Catalunya" (2007), Josep Oriol Font Cop has revised and extended the present author's work in Catalunya. See his Els dòlmens catalans en el context de I'Europa Occidental (Societat Catalana d'Arqueologia, Barcelona, 2007). Font Cop's work will require minor adjustments to the data published by the present author and summarized here.
29. MH, Tombs, 148-50;
30. Bibliography, art. 17, S60-61.