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Megalithism
Sacred and Pagan Architecture in Prehistory
by Alberto Pozzi


Publisher: | Universal Publishers |
Pub date: | 2013 |
Pages: | 403 |
ISBN-10: | 1612332552 |
ISBN-13: | 9781612332550 |
Categories: | History Architecture History |
Abstract
Megalithism, or the art of using huge boulders to create sacred, pagan monuments and sites, still fascinates us today. How did Prehistoric man cut, transport, and place such enormous stones, some weighing up to 200 metric tons, without bulldozers, drills, and cranes? Yet primitive man, without the written word or wheel, created structures which still stupefy us in the 21st century, both due to their components and the precision used in positioning them.This book takes us back in time to the 5th-2nd millennia B.C. and helps us visualise the Stone Age world and its constructions - menhirs, dolmens, rows and circles of standing stones. Undoubtedly they were sacred places, used for pagan rituals and funerary purposes, but the author also gives us details of their astronomic and physical alignment, which clearly demonstrates the knowledge of the heavens these ancestors had and how they applied it without slide-rules, set squares, and theodolites. The high priests of ancient times could calculate when the solstices and equinoxes would occur and thus regulate the seasons for sowing and reaping.
The author's careful and updated identification of all such structures leads us through 'Ancient European Megalithism' complete with the religious and social aspects of it and its pagan legacies. He does not neglect forms of 'sub-actual' megalithism either - the use of massive stones by peoples described as primitive but with a relatively advanced culture who lived in times closer to our own in Africa, Asia, and South America.
The myths and legends arising from the megalithic structures are recounted here in detail; the author also describes megalithic art in the form of statue-stele and menhir statues, as well as the often intricate decoration carved on single stones and in construction such as dolmens, funerary mounds, astronomic observatories, and temples. He also describes studies and experiments on the methods of transport and construction used by Prehistoric peoples, together with conflicting opinions and theories.
Amply illustrated with photographs and drawings, Megalithism guides the reader through every part of the megalithic world with smooth-flowing text that will be accessible to specialists and interested general public alike.
About the Author
Alberto Pozzi was born on the shores of Lake Como in Lombardy, Italy, where he still resides with his wife, Anna; they have two daughters and a son as well as four grandchildren. His classical studies paved the way for more than fifty years dedicated to various branches of archaeology - prehistoric worship, rupestrian or rock art and, above all, megalithism; this has taken him on many trips to the four corners of the earth to visit megalithic sites, photograph them, and to try to uncover their secrets. He is active in several associations for the Study of Prehistory and has taken part in excavation missions both in Lombardy and in Western Thebes, Luxor, Egypt.
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