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The North European megaliths are among the most enduring structures built in prehistory; they are imbued with symbolic meanings which embody physical and conceptual ideas about the nature of the world inhabited by the first Northern farmers. The Megaliths of Northern Europe provides a much needed up-to-date synthesis of the material available on these monuments, incorporating the results of recent research in Holland, Germany, Denmark and Sweden. This research has brought to light new data on the construction of the megaliths and their role in the cultural landscape, and Magdalena Midgley...

Dr Robert Munro (1835-1920) was a distinguished medical practitioner who, in his later life, became a keen archaeologist. His particular interests lay in the lake-dwelling settlements of his native Scotland, known as crannogs, as well as those then being discovered across Europe. In 1885 Robert Munro undertook a review of all lacustrian research in Europe, travelling widely to study collections and visit sites. The results of this work formed the basis for the prestigious Rhind Lectures at the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1888. These were then published as The Lake-Dwellings of...

Papers from the session Antiquarians at the Megaliths presented at the XV UISPP World Congress, Lisbon, 2006. Contents: 1) Antiquarians at the megaliths: Introductory thoughts (Magdalena S. Midgley); 2) Chronicle of megalith research in the Netherlands, 1547-1900 (Jan Albert Bakker); 3) Jean-Marie Bachelot de la Pylaie (1786-1856). The journey of an archeologist among the antiquaries in Brittany in the second half of the XIXth century (Serge Cassen and Cyrille Chaigneau); 4) The Videdys long dolmen 1643-2006 (Torben Dehn); 5) Research history of the Altmark megalithic tombs (Barbara Fritsch);...