Abstract The Gumugou Cemetery is an early Bronze Age necropolis located in the Tarim
Basin of Xinjiang, China. Among its notable features is the consistent alignment of corpses …

Recent large tsunamis in the twenty-first century have provided graphic reminders of the
catastrophic impacts such natural hazards can have upon coastal communities. Death tolls …

Like many prehistoric monuments, the Neolithic Temples of Malta have been the subject of
astronomical studies, aimed at identifying possible alignments with cosmological events …

Stonehenge is one of the most famous ancient monuments in the world and its solar
alignment is one of its most important features. Yet although archaeologists have learned a …

We present the results of our analysis of two singular Neolithic monuments and two
prominent megalithic groups in Galicia. The two singular monuments are the dolmen of …

The island of Sardinia is well known for its Late Neolithic and Copper Age underground rock-
cut tombs that were used over generations for collective burials. Many tombs were …

Petra, the ancient Nabataean capital, has been one of our main research objectives since
our first field campaign on site in 1996 (Belmonte, 1999). Our work on Nabataea has …

The structure of the built environment that surrounds us molds and guides our actions,
feelings, and interactions. Reflection on the human experience of a built space takes us …

The majority of Irish passage tombs (c. 230) predominantly date to the Middle Neolithic (c.
3600–3000 BC). A small number of summit cairns may also contain passage tombs because …

This short paper focuses on monuments in the Stonehenge landscape, including
Stonehenge itself, with the aim of presenting a “modern” picture of these monuments and …