The megalithic burials indicate the burials of the Neolithic marked by monumental constructions of various types. In the beginning, (at the 19th century) one indicated by megalithic burial of the tombs whose architecture was based on the stacking of large-sized blocks, not being able to be moved easily by one or two individuals.
These blocks of rocks are laid out according to two principal orientations, either vertically, it acts then of orthostats, or horizontally, and one speaks then about flagstones (pavement or roof).
Very quickly, in particular following the first excavations of the great funerary structures carnacéennes (of Carnac in France), it appeared that the megalithic burials were in general covered with a monticule of stones and/or ground, more or less organized, called Cairn or Tumulus.
By extension, one indicates by megalithic burial the whole of the buildings of big size, therefore monumental, built hones some with the Neolithic era, having been used as burial collective or individual, without for all this the structure interns is made up of the blocks megalithic.
These burials raise various interrogations, namely the social organization necessary to the construction of this type of burials, the design of funerary space and the report/ratio with divine or the place of the man in his environment, as well as the treatment of the body.
Design of funerary space
Megalithic typology
Treatment of the body
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