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Symbol and Stone

SYMBOL AND STONE: HOW MEGALITHIC ART TRANSFORMED NEOLITHIC AND COPPER AGE SOCIETIES

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Project "Symbol and Stone" data sheet

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Coordinator	GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET Organization address address: VASAPARKEN city: GOETEBORG postcode: 405 30 website: www.gu.se contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Sweden [SE]
Project website	http://picdeer.com/symbolandstone
Total cost	185˙857 €
EC max contribution	185˙857 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
Code Call	H2020-MSCA-IF-2015
Funding Scheme	MSCA-IF-EF-CAR
Starting year	2016
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2016-08-01 to 2018-09-20

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET Organization address address: VASAPARKEN city: GOETEBORG postcode: 405 30 website: www.gu.se contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	SE (GOETEBORG)	coordinator	185˙857.00

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Project objective

Our understanding of the rise of megalithic art is contentious and patchy. SYMBOL AND STONE is a comparative study of the megalithic art in Europe in order to analyze and explain how inter-cultural exchange between prehistoric societies (~4500-2500 cal BC) shaped megalithic art, and to theorize and interpret the significance and function of these images. Most of the ~35´000 still existing European megaliths, which include megalithic tombs, standing stones, stone circles, alignments, and megalithic buildings or temples, were constructed during the Neolithic and the Copper Ages and are located in coastal areas. From several hundreds of these megaliths, especially from Brittany, Andalusia, Portugal, Galicia, Catalonia, Sardinia, the Maltese archipelago, Ireland and Scotland are paintings and engravings known, such as as angular designs, curvilinear motifs, circular motifs, waves, zig-zag, spirals, triangles, trees, anthropomorphic figures, boats, animals, house sketches, weapons etc. Some are combined to form complex symbolic systems. Strikingly, identical motifs and symbol groups can be found separated by long distances. Did the megalithic art develop independently in separate regions? Or, are these images the results of an intercultural exchange? If so, how was such a transfer accomplished? What was the significance of these images and what role did they play for the memory and ritual culture of these non-literate societies? These are the main research questions.

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