MegaScapes · Comparative Models of Megalithic Landscapes in Neolithic Atlantic Europe
„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“
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- 2021-02-01 → 2023-01-31
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Накратко на български
Мегалитните съоръжения по атлантическото крайбрежие на Европа, като големите колективни гробове, се анализират чрез статистически модели и разположението им в пространството. Това помага да се разбере как хората през неолита са споделяли знания, вярвания и обща представа за света.
Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.
Резултати накратко
Comparative Models of Megalithic Landscapes in Neolithic Atlantic Europe
The MegaScapes project used the latest statistical and quantitative methods to examine whether the explosion of megalithic construction across Europe’s Atlantic façade between 5000-2500 BC provides evidence of a shared understanding across distant regions of the Atlantic European seaboard as long ago as the Neolithic. It used advances in computational and spatial statistical modelling to analyse Spatio-temporal patterns in the arrangement of megalithic monuments, and their possible meaning in a wider landscape context. The latter was inferred by investigating regularities in the geographical placement of megaliths, trends in their visibility and their association with pathways. Megalithic monuments constitute a common social and funerary phenomenon throughout Atlantic Europe during the Neolithic, starting in the early 5th millennium BC and involving the construction of large-scale earth and stone structures, typically collective graves covered by a mound. Many authors have highlighted similarities in this funeral phenomenon along the Atlantic façade of Europe, based on common types of funerary architecture and archaeological artefacts. The general aim of the project was to contribute to a better understanding of Neolithic human dynamics in coastal Atlantic Europe, by seeing how the megalithic builders shared knowledge, beliefs and generally a cosmovision in Atlantic Europe. Affirmations such as this one can be seen as a hope for a stable community in the future, for a connected and more egalitarian world.
Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз
Цел на проекта
The idea that Europe’s Atlantic façade shares elements of a common culture rooted deep in prehistory has long fascinated geographers and archaeologists, and finds expression in modern political organisations such as the Atlantic Arc Commission. The MegaScapes project will use the latest statistical and quantitative methods to examine whether the explosion of megalithic construction across Europe’s Atlantic façade between 5000-2500 BC (and especially 4500-3500 BC) provides evidence of a shared understanding across distant regions of the Atlantic European seaboard as long ago as the Neolithic. It will undertake a comparative study of four important micro-regions of megalithic construction spanning the United Kingdom, Ireland, France and Spain, which will use advances in computational and spatial statistical modelling to analyse spatio-temporal patterns in the arrangement of megalithic monuments, and their possible meaning in a wider landscape context. The latter will be inferred by rigorously investigating regularities in the geographical placement of megaliths, trends in their visibility, their association with pathways and their relation with the lived environment such as settlement and land use. Ultimately the core aim of MegaScapes is to investigate whether the spatial meaning of Neolithic megalithic architecture was regionally variable, or whether it was indeed shared along the Atlantic European seaboard.
Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).
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Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз