The remembrance of the dead is a ubiquitous dimension of most human societies, and the spatial dimension of mortuary practices actively constitutes an essential element of the cultural significance of certain places in the landscape. The visual prominence of stone-built funerary monuments in dry upland areas is particularly conducive to their multiscalar study through above-ground remote sensing methods. In this paper, we characterize the nature and distribution of Late Holocene drystone funerary monuments in the Dhar Tagant region of south-eastern Mauritania using freely available, very high-resolution (VHR) satellite imagery. We contextualize them in relation to the monumental mortuary records of Senegal and Mali within the West African Sahel, exploring their similarities and differences with other monumental funerary landscapes in semi-arid environments. Ethical considerations and a self-reflective attitude must be at the forefront of archaeological research, and we discuss the ethics of remote sensing research in the study of funerary practices in Africa, as well as the opportunities and challenges for remote collaborative engagement with local communities in the context of fieldwork restrictions.

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Dhar Tagant（毛里塔尼亚东南部）的纪念性葬礼景观：西非萨赫勒地区的道德卫星遥感

悼念死者是大多数人类社会普遍存在的维度，太平间实践的空间维度积极构成了景观中某些地方的文化意义的基本要素。干旱高地地区石砌墓葬的视觉突出特别有利于通过地面遥感方法对其进行多标量研究。在本文中，我们使用免费提供的超高分辨率 (VHR) 卫星图像描述了毛里塔尼亚东南部达尔塔甘地区晚全新世干石墓葬纪念碑的性质和分布。我们将它们与塞内加尔和马里在西非萨赫勒地区不朽的太平间记录相关联，探索它们与半干旱环境中其他具有纪念意义的葬礼景观的异同。伦理考虑和自我反思的态度必须处于考古研究的最前沿，我们讨论了遥感研究在非洲丧葬实践研究中的伦理，以及与当地社区远程合作参与的机遇和挑战实地工作限制的背景。