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The Use of Wood in Megalithic Structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

A. Vayson de Pradenne
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Long ago one of our oldest French prehistorians, Gustave Chauvet, called attention to the probable existence of a wooden framework over the structures beneath tumuli. At a Congress of the A.F.A.S. held at Nantes in 1875 he described the digging of seven tumuli at La Boixe (Charente) containing burials of the polished Stone Age. Two of them covered true dolmens; others simple rectangular or circular cellae enclosed within small dry-stone walls.

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Research Article
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Antiquity , Volume 11 , Issue 41 , March 1937 , pp. 87 - 92
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1937 

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1 Fletcher, A.C. and La Flesche, Francis, ‘The Omaha tribe’: 27th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1911, pp. 97–8, and pis. 22-23Google Scholar.

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