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Monumental funerary landscapes of Dhar Tagant (south-eastern Mauritania): Towards ethical satellite remote sensing in the West African Sahel

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The remembrance of the dead is a ubiquitous dimension of most human societies, and the spatial dimension of mortuary practices actively constitutes an essential element of the cultural significance of certain places in the landscape. The visual prominence of stone-built funerary monuments in dry upland areas is particularly conducive to their multiscalar study through above-ground remote sensing methods. In this paper, we characterize the nature and distribution of Late Holocene drystone fune...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1002/arp.1817

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
School of Archaeology
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ORCID:
0000-0001-9321-7695
Publisher:
Wiley Publisher's website
Journal:
Archaeological Prospection Journal website
Volume:
28
Issue:
3
Pages:
357-378
Publication date:
2021-05-05
Acceptance date:
2021-04-04
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EISSN:
1099-0763
ISSN:
1075-2196
Language:
English
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1191641
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pubs:1191641
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2021-08-19

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