Ce gros ouvrage propose des contributions présentées en 2011 à Oslo, lors de deux sessions de la conférence de l’Association des Archéologues européens ( European Association of Archaeologists).

Parmi les articles - qui concernent le nord de l’Europe, de l’Ecosse et la Norvège à la Pologne et la Tchéquie - on relèvera particulièrement celles qui concernent le mégalithisme, notamment sur l’origine et la signification du phénomène :

1. Anja Behrens, The complexity of megalithic graves on the island of Rügen (p. 81)
2. Georg Schafferer, Megaliths and landscapes - Grave architecture as spatial manifestations of tradition and social identities in northern Germany (p. 91)
3. Anne Brigitte Gebauer, Meanings of Monumentalism at Lønt, Denmark (p. 101)
4. Almut Schülke, Three concepts of burying the dead -different types of megalithic monuments and their ritual and social significance (p. 113)
5. Doris Mischka, Flintbek and the absolute chronology of megalithic graves in the Funnel Beaker North Group (p. 125)
6. Kerstin Schierhold, Landscape between cultures. Westphalia between 4100 and 2700 BC (p. 145)
7. Andrzej Pelisiak, The Funnel Beaker culture: Long barrows as the landscape of the dead within the landscapes of the living (p. 155)
8. Johannes Müller, Hauke Dibbern, Franziska Hage, Non-megalithic mounds beneath megaliths: A new perspective on monumentality in North Central Europe (p. 171)
9. Deborah Olausson, The “mental” in monumental. Battle Axe culture in megalithic tombs in southern Sweden (p. 261)

Furholt M., Hinz M., Mischka D., Noble G. & Olausson D. (dir.), 2014. Landscapes, Histories and Societes in the Northern European Neolithic. Bonn, Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel/Habelt, 317 p., 65 €, ISBN: 978-3-7749-3882-3