Stonehenge A New Understanding Solving The Mysteries Of The Greatest Stone Age Monument

Author : Mike Parker Pearson
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781615191727

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Stonehenge - A New Understanding: Solving the Mysteries of the Greatest Stone Age Monument by Mike Parker Pearson Pdf

“The most authoritative, important book on Stonehenge to date.”—Kirkus, starred review Stonehenge stands as an enduring link to our prehistoric ancestors, yet the secrets it has guarded for thousands of years have long eluded us. Until now, the millions of enthusiasts who flock to the iconic site have made do with mere speculation—about Stonehenge’s celestial significance, human sacrifice, and even aliens and druids. One would think that the numerous research expeditions at Stonehenge had left no stone unturned. Yet, before the Stonehenge Riverside Project—a hugely ambitious, seven-year dig by today’s top archaeologists—all previous digs combined had only investigated a fraction of the monument, and many records from those earlier expeditions are either inaccurate or incomplete. Stonehenge—A New Understanding rewrites the story. From 2003 to 2009, author Mike Parker Pearson led the Stonehenge Riverside Project, the most comprehensive excavation ever conducted around Stonehenge. The project unearthed a wealth of fresh evidence that had gone untouched since prehistory. Parker Pearson uses that evidence to present a paradigm-shifting theory of the true significance that Stonehenge held for its builders—and mines his field notes to give you a you-are-there view of the dirt, drama, and thrilling discoveries of this history-changing archaeological dig.

Author : Mike Parker Pearson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857207333

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Stonehenge by Mike Parker Pearson Pdf

Our knowledge about Stonehenge has changed dramatically as a result of the Stonehenge Riverside Project (2003-2009), led by Mike Parker Pearson, and included not only Stonehenge itself but also the nearby great henge enclosure of Durrington Walls. This book is about the people who built Stonehenge and its relationship to the surrounding landscape. The book explores the theory that the people of Durrington Walls built both Stonehenge and Durrington Walls, and that the choice of stone for constructing Stonehenge has a significance so far undiscovered, namely, that stone was used for monuments to the dead. Through years of thorough and extensive work at the site, Parker Pearson and his team unearthed evidence of the Neolithic inhabitants and builders which connected the settlement at Durrington Walls with the henge, and contextualised Stonehenge within the larger site complex, linked by the River Avon, as well as in terms of its relationship with the rest of the British Isles. Parker Pearson's book changes the way that we think about Stonehenge; correcting previously erroneous chronology and dating; filling in gaps in our knowledge about its people and how they lived; identifying a previously unknown type of Neolithic building; discovering Bluestonehenge, a circle of 25 blue stones from western Wales; and confirming what started as a hypothesis - that Stonehenge was a place of the dead - through more than 64 cremation burials unearthed there, which span the monument's use during the third millennium BC. In lively and engaging prose, Parker Pearson brings to life the imposing ancient monument that continues to hold a fascination for everyone.

Author : Marc Aronson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : England
ISBN : 9781426305993

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If Stones Could Speak by Marc Aronson Pdf

Explores the mysterious monument of Stonehenge and reveals some of its secrets and history.

Author : Michael Parker Pearson
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849946995

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Bronze Age Britain by Michael Parker Pearson Pdf

During the Neolithic and Bronze Age - a period covering some 4,000 years from the beginnings of farming by stone-using communities to the end of the era in which bronze was an important material for weapons and tools - the face of Britain changed profoundly, from a forest wilderness to a large patchwork of open ground and managed woodland. The axe was replaced as a key symbol, first by the dagger and finally by the sword. The houses of the living came to supplant the tombs of the dead as the most permanent features in the landscape. In this fascinating book, eminent archeologist Michael Parker Pearson looks at the ways in which we can interpret the challenging and tantalising evidence from this prehistoric era. He also examines the various arguments and current theories of archeologist about these times. Drawing on recent discoveries and research, and illustrated with numerous maps, plans, reconstructions and photographs, this book shows what life was like and how it changed during the Neolithic and Bronze Age.

Author : Julian C. Richards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 0760773459

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Stonehenge by Julian C. Richards Pdf

Author : Jim Grant,Sam Gorin,Neil Fleming
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317541110

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The Archaeology Coursebook by Jim Grant,Sam Gorin,Neil Fleming Pdf

This fully updated and revised edition of the best-selling title The Archaeology Coursebook is a guide for students studying archaeology for the first time. Including new methods and key studies in this fourth edition, it provides pre-university students and teachers, as well as undergraduates and enthusiasts, with the skills and technical concepts necessary to grasp the subject. The Archaeology Coursebook: introduces the most commonly examined archaeological methods, concepts and themes, and provides the necessary skills to understand them explains how to interpret the material students may meet in examinations supports study with key studies, key sites, key terms, tasks and skills development illustrates concepts and commentary with over 400 photos and drawings of excavation sites, methodology and processes, tools and equipment provides an overview of human evolution and social development with a particular focus upon European prehistory. Reflecting changes in archaeological practice and with new key studies, methods, examples, boxes, photographs and diagrams, this is definitely a book no archaeology student should be without.

Author : Phil Coleman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1549564811

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Stonehenge by Phil Coleman Pdf

STONEHENGE: The Mysteries of England's Most Sacred Historical LandmarkMention Stonehenge and many people instantly think of an ancient monument with religious significance. They see images of Druids at sunrise, the summer and winter solstices, and festivals. There are hundreds of ancient circles around the UK - an estimated 900 now and possibly over 4,000 at one time. The earliest ones were built of wood but that changed to stone in the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age period. Stonehenge may, therefore, be regarded as just one amongst many. It is, however, without doubt unique. It's a wonderful piece of engineering, especially considering it was built by people who had only the most rudimentary of tools to do the job. Its history goes back over 4,500 years - even older than the Egyptian pyramids - and possibly even further, with evidence of other major construction on the site going back another 2,000 years. Indeed, some large Mesolithic post holes found under the current car park are dated around 8,000 BC, indicating a possible 10,000 year plus usage of the site. This book looks at the history, mystery and sacred tales of Stonehenge, England's most cherished landmark.

Author : Anthony Johnson
Publisher : Thames and Hudson
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131782513

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Solving Stonehenge by Anthony Johnson Pdf

Using his own long experience as a professional archaeological surveyor and after five years' patient computer-reanalysis of the earthwork and stone circle, Anthony Johnson reveals in this brilliantly argued detective story how he solved the key mystery of Stonehenge. Locked within the symmetry of the stones are precise formulae which determine their numbers, spacing and relationships. As a result of this revelation, the whole rationale behind Stonehenge and other major prehistoric sites can be reassessed.

Author : Martin Sweatman
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781838599669

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Prehistory Decoded by Martin Sweatman Pdf

The story of a major scientific discovery, solving one of the greatest puzzles on Earth. Connects geoscience and astronomy with ancient archaeology to uncover an astronmical code used for over 40,000 years. Explains the meaning of some of the greatest ancient artworks.

Author : Aubrey Burl
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300083475

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The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany by Aubrey Burl Pdf

The spectacular stone circles of western Europe, some nearly 6000 years old, have intrigued viewers through the ages. This beautiful book about these megalithic rings explores their ancestry, methods of construction, and eventual desertion. A substantially revised version of Aubrey Burl's highly praised work The Stone Circles of the British Isles, it offers new insights into the purpose of stone circles. It also provides a new interpretation of Stonehenge and of Callanish in Scotland, the first overview of the cromlechs in Brittany, a discussion of the problems of archaeoastronomy as related to stone circles, a greatly expanded Gazetteer, and an up-to-date list of radiocarbon dates and recent excavations.

Author : Bj¿rnar Olsen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520274167

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Archaeology by Bj¿rnar Olsen Pdf

“This book exhorts the reader to embrace the materiality of archaeology by recognizing how every step in the discipline’s scientific processes involves interaction with myriad physical artifacts, ranging from the camel-hair brush to profile drawings to virtual reality imaging. At the same time, the reader is taken on a phenomenological journey into various pasts, immersed in the lives of peoples from other times, compelled to engage their senses with the sights, smells, and noises of the publics and places whose remains they study. This is a refreshingly original and provocative look at the meaning of the material culture that lies at the foundation of the archaeological discipline.”—Michael Brian Schiffer, author of The Material Life of Human Beings “This volume is a radical call to fundamentally rethink the ontology, profession, and practice of archaeology. The authors present a closely reasoned, epistemologically sound argument for why archaeology should be considered the discipline of things, rather than its more commonplace definition as the study of the human past through material traces. All scholars and students of archaeology will need to read and contemplate this thought-provoking book.”—Wendy Ashmore, Professor of Anthropology, UC Riverside "A broad, illuminating, and well-researched overview of theoretical problems pertaining to archaeology. The authors make a calm defense of the role of objects against tedious claims of 'fetishism.'"—Graham Harman, author of The Quadruple Object

Author : Don Kulick
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781616209476

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A Death in the Rainforest by Don Kulick Pdf

“Perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature.” —The Wall Street Journal “If you want to experience a profoundly different culture without the exhausting travel (to say nothing of the cost), this is an excellent choice.” —The Washington Post One of Time’s 32 Books You Need to Read This Summer * One of National Geographic’s Best Travel Books of Summer As a young anthropologist, Don Kulick went to the tiny village of Gapun in New Guinea to document the death of the native language, Tayap. He arrived knowing that you can’t study a language without understanding the daily lives of the people who speak it: how they talk to their children, how they argue, how they gossip, how they joke. Over the course of thirty years, as he returned again and again to document the vanishing language, he found himself inexorably drawn into the lives and world of the Gapuners, and implicated in their destiny. In A Death in the Rainforest, Kulick takes us inside the village as he came to know it, revealing what it is like to live in a difficult-to-get-to village of two hundred people, carved out like a cleft in the middle of a tropical rainforest. And in doing so, he also gives us a brilliant interrogation of what it means to study a culture, an illuminating look at the impact of Western culture on the farthest reaches of the globe—and, ultimately, the story of why this anthropologist realized that he had to give up his study of this language and this village.

Author : Juan A. Barceló,Maurizio Forte,Donald H. Sanders
Publisher : BAR International Series
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : UVA:X006108593

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Virtual Reality in Archaeology by Juan A. Barceló,Maurizio Forte,Donald H. Sanders Pdf

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Author : Mick Manning
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Stonehenge (England)
ISBN : 1847805205

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Secrets of Stonehenge by Mick Manning Pdf

Why was this amazing monument erected? How did our Stone-Age ancestors bring such massive stones to the site from so far away? How did they raise the enormous stones to their upright positions? What was Stonehenge used for, and who lived around the site? With captions and pictures, and using up-to-the-minute research discoveries, Mick Manning and Brita Granström tell the incredible true story of this awe-inspiring monument – one of the greatest ancient sites in the world.

Author : Cynthia Medina
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1774855348

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Stonehenge by Cynthia Medina Pdf

Stonehenge stands today one signpost left along the way that identifies the building race. It bears witness to the vigour and vitality of a national religion already passed from the primitive into the metaphysical stage which embodied abstract ideas astronomical observations and a high and pure code of ethics. From pottery shards ancient burials and the silent stones themselves have come the amazing saga of a race of colonizers who created a unique civilization in britain over 2000 years before the birth of christ. Reveals how stonehenge was an extraordinary astronomical calendar used in the cultivation of ingredients for long-forgotten botanical cures Explores how stonehenge and other stone circles were ancient healing sanctuaries and celestial calculators for the preparation of natural medicines Explains how the megalithic priesthood--and their successors, the druids--developed astonishing memory techniques to preserve knowledge over generations Draws upon the very latest discoveries from recent archaeological excavations and overlooked historical source material Stonehenge stands as an enduring link to our prehistoric ancestors, yet the secrets it has guarded for thousands of years have long eluded us. Until now, the millions of enthusiasts who flock to the iconic site have made do with mere speculation-about stonehenge's celestial significance, human sacrifice, and even aliens and druids. One would think that the numerous research expeditions at stonehenge had left no stone unturned.