A critique of the 3-D representation of megalithic architecture in western Europe: methods and current uses ; Pour une critique de la représentation tridimensionnelle des architectures mégalithiques en Europe occidentale. ; A critique of the 3-D representation of megalithic architecture in western Europe: methods and current uses: Méthodes et usages actuels

International audience ; This article seeks to clarify the means used to describe and analyse not only megalithic architecture but also the signs engraved and painted on their surfaces that give privileged access to human thought in the 5th and 4th millennia BC. The technical purpose is to reconstitute volumes from these surfaces, and to extract exact measurements. The archaeological purpose is to present them to us in their current architectural order or disorder to deduce a hypothetical order in the Neolithic period, by testing structural, historical and architectonic hypotheses. The discuss... Mehr ...