Introduction au premier volet « Plateformes funéraires et cercles de pierres dressées en Afrique de l’Ouest »

Abstract

Communications presented during a session dedicated to “African Megaliths: a very present past” during the SAfA meeting at Toulouse (June 2016), will be here published in the form of two thematic inserts within the present and the next issue of the journal Afrique : Archaeology & Arts. The first concerns funeral platforms, sometimes bounded by standing stones, South of the Sahelian strip.