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Author : Edward Herbert Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : England
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012429937
Author : Jean-Pierre Mohen
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
ISBN : 0500300909
Who built the megaliths, those massive stone structures ranging from tombs to standing stones that date back to over 4000 BC? Why were they built? How were the enormous stones transported and erected? Were these strange, sacred stones used as temples or tombs, sculptures or houses? Covering the best-known sites - Avebury and Stonehenge in England, Carnac in France and Knowth in Ireland - and also less famous examples in Scandinavia, Malta, Egypt and Spain, this book considers the special significance - architectural, scientific, religious and cultural - of these enigmatic Neolithic stone structures.
Author : Mike Parker Pearson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857207333
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 : David Souden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Cromlechs
ISBN : IND:30000054048289
Endorsed by English Heritage experts, this a uthoritative book uses the latest archaeological methods and discoveries to explain current knowledge on Stonehenge '
Author : Mike Pitts
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780500777176
Icon of the New Stone Age, sculptural and engineering marvel, symbol of national pride: there is nothing quite like Stonehenge. These great sarsen and bluestone slabs, arranged with simple, graphic genius, attract visitors from across the world. The monument stands silent in the face of the questions its unlikely existence raises: who built it? Why? How? There has been endless speculation about why Stonehenge was built, inspiring theories ranging from the academically credible to the improbable, but far less investigation into how. In the millennia since its creation, pieces of Stonehenge have been knocked over by heavy machinery, found their way to Florida (and back again), and been exposed to radioactive sodium, but the seemingly impossible endeavour of raising the stones with Neolithic technology has remained inexplicable until now. In the past decade ground-breaking discoveries, made possible by cutting-edge scientific techniques, have traced the precise provenance of the bluestones in Wales, but can we plot their journeys to the Salisbury Plain? And how might teams of labourers lacking machinery or even pack animals have dragged them 150 miles to the site? How did they carve joints into the sarsen boulders, among the hardest stones in the world, and then raise them into place? Mike Pitts draws on a lifetimes study to answer these questions, revealing how Stonehenge stood not in austere isolation, as we see it today, but as part of a wider world, the focus of a megalithic cosmology of belief, ritual and creativity.
Author : E. Herbert Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:59316755
Author : Aubrey Burl
Publisher : Constable & Robinson
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000116105432
Authoritatively researched, new insights into Stonehenge's past Britain's leading expert on stone circles turns his attention to the greatest example of them all - Stonehenge. Drawing on forty years of research and fieldwork, archaeologist Aubrey Burl offers a seminal new view of the changing cults and evolving architecture of Stonehenge. Every aspect of Stonehenge is re-considered in this groundbreaking volume. Burl explains for the first time how the outlying Heel Stone long predates Stonehenge itself, serving as a trackway marker in the prehistoric Harroway. He uncovers new evidence that the Welsh bluestones were brought to Stonehenge by glaciation rather than by man. And he reveals just how far the design of Stonehenge was influenced by Breton styles and by Breton cults of the dead. Meticulously researched, the book sets the record straight on the matter of Stonehenge's astronomical alignments. Although the existence of a sightline to the midsummer sunrise is well known, the alignment and the viewingposition are critically different from popular belief. And until now the existence of an earlier alignment to the moon and a later one to the midwinter sunset has been little appreciated. One almost unexplained puzzle remains. The site of Stonehenge lies at the heart of a vast six-mile wide graveyard. All around it are groups of earthen long barrows, the burial places of Neolithic people, many of whom died more than a thousand years before Stonehenge. The mystery is that before Stonehenge there was a vacuum two miles across inside that cemetery. Nothing was inside. Why? Burl points to an answer.
Author : Caroline Malone,Nancy Stone Bernard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195143140
Examines the site of the huge stone monument known as Stonehenge, discussing who built it, as well as theories on when, how, and why it was constructed.
Author : Julian C. Richards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 0760773459
Author : True Kelley,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780515156430
Unravel some of the riddles of Stonehenge, one of the most famous and mysterious monuments in the world! Where is Stonehenge? That's an easy question to answer. It sits on the Salisbury Plain in Southern England. But what is the meaning of these strange circles of stones? Was Stonehenge a religious site to honor the dead? Or a sacred place of healing? Or perhaps an astrological calendar? These are much harder questions to answer. However, in an engaging and easy-to-read account, True Kelley puts forth all theories—past as well as current ones—about Stonehenge and the people who four thousand years ago managed to build this amazing monument.
Author : Mike Parker Pearson,Joshua Pollard,Chris Tilley,Colin Richards
Publisher : Stonehenge Riverside Project
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9088907056
For many centuries, scholars and enthusiasts have been fascinated by Stonehenge, the world's most famous stone circle. In 2003 a team of archaeologists commenced a long-term fieldwork project for the first time in decades. The Stonehenge Riverside Project (2003-2009) aimed to investigate the purpose of this unique prehistoric monument by considering it within its wider archaeological context.This is the second of four volumes which present the results of that campaign. It includes studies of the lithics from excavations, both from topsoil sampling and from excavated features, as well as of the petrography of the famous bluestones, as identified from chippings recovered during excavations. Other specialist syntheses are those of the land mollusca. The volume provides an overview of Stonehenge in its landscape over millennia from before the monument was built to the last of its five constructional stages. It concludes with a chapter placing Stonehenge in its full context within Britain and western Europe during the third millennium BC.With contributions by:Umberto Albarella, Michael Allen, Richard Bevins, Benjamin Chan, Robert Ixer, Claudia Minniti, Doug Mitcham and Sarah Viner-Daniels
Author : Mike Parker Pearson,Michael Parker Pearson
Publisher : The Experiment
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781615190799
An archeologist who participated in a seven-year excavation at the historic monument describes recent findings that correct previously-held notions about the site, including the dating and significance of the structure as well as how the builders lived.
Author : Anthony Johnson
Publisher : Thames and Hudson
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131782513
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 : Cynthia Kennedy Henzel
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Megalithic monuments
ISBN : 1616135670
Overview of the history of Stonehenge discusses its original purpose, how it was built, where it is, why it is considered a threatened monument, and what is being done to conserve it.
Author : Anita Croy
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502627940
Stonehenge is one of the archaeological mysteries of the world. Experts are not entirely certain why Stonehenge was built, but there are clues that have aided them in working toward discovering its true purpose. Readers will learn about some of the theories archaeologists have about Stonehenges past and how there is not enough evidence to support their theories entirely. Maps, sidebars, and full-color photographs supplement information in the text to spark readers interest in learning more about Stonehenge.