Meanings
nounmonumentalization (countable and uncountable, plural monumentalizations)
plural monumentalizations
- countableuncountableThe process of monumentalizing.
Alto de Reinoso is a good example of a non-megalithic barrow, as the result of the monumentalization of a more basic structure, probably a burial chamber made of wood, mud and other organic materials, the actual shape of which is difficult to ascertain.
2016 January 21, “A Community in Life and Death: The Late Neolithic Megalithic Tomb at Alto de Reinoso (Burgos, Spain)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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