Stone Rows and Standing Stones
Author : Alexander Thom
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,86 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Archaeoastronomy
ISBN :
Author : Alexander Thom
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,86 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Archaeoastronomy
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Author : Rupert Soskin
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN :
Ireland.
Author : Aubrey Burl
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300055757
This book discusses the lines of standing stones that until now have been the neglected wonders of prehistoric Europe, rows that were foci of rituals in Britain, Ireland and Brittany for over two thousand years. Places such as Carnac in Brittany and Callanish in the Hebrides are visited by many visitors each year, but before now there has been no book that seriously explains the history, significance and background to these impressive sites. Aubrey Burl shows that the settings vary from pairs of isolated stones in the far south-west of Ireland to networks of long lines in Scotland, Dartmoor and Brittany, and describes the types in a sequence of architectural chapters that stress the increasing social and commercial connections between regions hundred of miles apart. He uses information from a wide variety of sources - excavation reports, megalithic art, astronomical analyses and legends - to provide explanations of why the rows were erected, when, and what they may have been used for.
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Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 43,70 MB
Release : 1990
Category :
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Author : Julian Cope
Publisher : HarperThorsons
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,75 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
ISBN : 9780722535998
In this unique guide to Britain's megalithic culture, rock n' roller Julian Cope provides an inspired fusion of travel, history, poetry, maps, field notes, and pure passion.
Author : Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 19,52 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Monuments
ISBN :
Author : Christopher Tilley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 49,51 MB
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1315426277
This book takes a new approach to writing about the past. Instead of studying the prehistory of Britain from Mesolithic to Iron Age times in terms of periods or artifact classifications, Tilley examines it through the lens of their geology and landscapes, asserting the fundamental significance of the bones of the land in the process of human occupation over the long durée. Granite uplands, rolling chalk downlands, sandstone moorlands, and pebbled hilltops each create their own potentialities and symbolic resources for human settlement and require forms of social engagement. Taking his findings from years of phenomenological fieldwork experiencing different landscapes with all senses and from many angles, Tilley creates a saturated and historically imaginative account of the landscapes of southern England and the people who inhabited them. This work is also a key theoretical statement about the importance of landscapes for human settlement.
Author : Steven Mithen
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1788853091
As an archaeologist, Steven Mithen has worked on the Hebridean island of Islay over a period of many years. In this book he introduces the sites and monuments and tells the story of the island's people from the earliest stone age hunter-gatherers to those who lived in townships and in the grandeur of Islay House. He visits the tombs of Neolithic farmers, forts of Iron Age chiefs and castles of medieval warlords, discovers where Bronze Age gold was found, treacherous plots were made against the Scottish crown, and explores the island of today, which was forged more recently by those who mined for lead, grew flax, fished for herring and distilled whisky – the industry for which the island is best known today. Although an island history, this is far from an insular story: Islay has always been at a cultural crossroads, receiving a constant influx of new people and new ideas, making it a microcosm for the story of Scotland, Britain and beyond.
Author : Richard Leviton
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 147599818X
The councilors had placed a book upon the table, its cover pale blue edged in silver. The title was The Theosophon. They slid it towards me. Philomena Wilcox, Ph.D., retired professor of music, pianist, passionate devotee of Russian composers like Scriabin and Rachmaninov, thinks she is merely editing a series of prolix journals by the desert recluse Blaise. One day in 2029 she took delivery of 7,000 pages of his arcane diary entries spanning a 20-year period. His storywhat he thinks and writes aboutis exceedingly odd, mystical, and perplexing. He is anticipating a planetary event to take place in 2033. Soon enough, Philomena discovers she, impossibly, is part of this story, in fact, will be a keystone in this epochal event. Its as if through the journal pages Blaise talks directly to her and pulls her into his world of wisdom-angels, geomantic patterns, and designer planets. The pages are encoded with activation triggers. Over a three-year period, she starts to remember her true story, her astonishing past. Its a nonstop tutorial in the Mysteries. Taught by the human Blaise and his angelic mentors, also called Blaise, seemingly right now, in the present moment. Except upwards of 35 years or more separate them in the world of linear time. Her familiar world starts to fall apart. The event is called the Theosophon. Blaise writes about it, but she designed it. Thats startling enough, but Philomena is astonished to remember that she designed it eons ago in another galaxy. The Earth was created as a performance stage for it. The Theosophon is a multidimensional musical event involving the collective consciousness of humanity, the Earth, and the spiritual world. The overture of the fulfillment of the purpose of the Earth and humanity. Yes, Philomena is an integral part of this unique event, but it will cost her more than she ever thought possible.
Author : YCT Expert Team
Publisher : YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 46,14 MB
Release :
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
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