Classification des sepultures a superstructure lithique dans le Levant et l'Arabie occidentale : (IV e et IIIe millenaires avant J.-C.)

A corpus of 270 cemeterues containing around 25,000 burials have been recorded in the Levant and western Arabia dating to the 4th and 3rd millennium BC. This volume presents a discussive inventory of some of these sites, arranged according to construction type. These grave monuments with their stone-built superstructures are compared in terms of the construction techniques employed, the grave furniture or internal layout, finds, the form of the monument, their distribution and situation. Speculation on what type of society, whether nomadic or semi-nomadic pastoralists, made such monuments is presented at the end. French text.