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[ES] Con algunas excepciones, los estudios sobre las construcciones megalíticas atlánticas a menudo se limitan a los aspectos o cuestiones sociales y territoriales dentro de un enfoque muy funcionalista. La mayoría de autores españoles y gallegos han mantenido esta orientación. Este documento tiene un enfoque diferente, ya que ofrece un panorama general del fenómeno megalítico en un área no muy conocida por los eruditos europeos. Al mismo tiempo, vamos a tratar de organizar los datos arqueológicos de Galicia con el fin de apreciar la construcción megalítica desde una perspectiva diferente, una nueva perspectiva que surge del hecho de que las estructuras megalíticas son arquitectura funeraria monumental. El aumento de estas estructuras megalíticas es coetáneo con el inicio de la agricultura sedentaria, de las comunidades campesinas y, en consecuencia, de un nuevo tipo de relación entre el hombre y su medio ambiente (Criado 1988c). Una vez que las amplias implicaciones del fenómeno megalítico se asuman, debemos reconocer que el sentido monumental megalítico se podría expresar con soluciones distintas, incluso en la misma zona. Preferimos hablar de "las principales tendencias" que de "etapas" o "tipos", haciendo hincapié en una estrategia de investigación que tiene la intención de entender la construcción megalítica como un evento que se forma a través de diferentes regularidades. Nuestro enfoque nos permitirá tratar las cuestiones de orden cultural, ideológica y simbólica que se suele olvidar en los estudios megalíticos.
[EN] With some exceptions studies on Atlantic megalith-building have often restricted themselves either to particular aspects or social and territorial issues within a strongly functionalist approach. Most Spanish and Galician authors have kept to this orientation as well. This paper has a different approach, for it offers a general survey of the megalithic phenomenon in an area not well known to European scholars. At the same time we shall try to organize Galician archaeological data in order to appreciate megalith-building from a different standpoint, a standpoint which arises from the fact that megalithic structures are monumental funerary architecture. The upsurge of megalith-building is coeval with the beginning of settled agriculture, of peasant communities and, as a result, of a new kind of relationship between man and his environment (Criado 1988c). Once the broad implications of the megalithic phenomenon are assumed, we should recognize that the megalithic monumental sense could be expressed with distinct solutions, even in the same area. We would rather talk of 'main trends' than of 'stages' or 'types', stressing a research strategy that intends to understand megalith-building-'megalithism'- as an event taking shape through different regularities. Our approach should allow us to deal with questions of cultural, ideological and symbolical order which are usually forgotten in megalithic studies.
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Paisaje, Megalíticos, Architecture, Megalithic, Northwest Galicia, Noroeste de Galicia, Landscape, Arquitectura
Paisaje, Megalíticos, Architecture, Megalithic, Northwest Galicia, Noroeste de Galicia, Landscape, Arquitectura
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