Megaliths and Identities. Early Monuments and Neolithic Societies from the Atlantic to the Baltic, (actes 3rd European Megalithic Studies Group Meeting, Kiel University, mai 2010), 2012, 293 p. -

The third European Megalithic Studies Group Meeting was held from the 13th - 15th of May 2010 at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel. It was organised during an early stage of the Priority Programme “Early Monumentality and Social Differentiation” (SPP 1400), a research col-laboration financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). The aim of the meeting was to both introduce this major research effort to the international community, as well as to situate the underlying agenda within the European context of Megalithic and Neolithic research. It thus brought together archaeologists working on the Neolithic monuments of Western, Northern, and Central Europe. The main topic of “Megaliths and Identities” assembles different approach-es and an international spectrum of research traditions. In this volume, 20 articles have been included, grouped into three topical sections. The first is concerned with the identif cation of the monuments themselves, whereas the second section contains several articles dealing with the role of monuments in the creation and re-creation of Neolithic social identities. A third group of papers addresses the question of social structures and their dynamics. Despite the variety of approaches, “Megaliths and Identities” presents a number of leitmotifs enlightening the current re-search into the interrelations between monuments and social formations