Stonehenge and Its Barrows
Author : Valentine Long
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 12,89 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Mounds
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Author : Valentine Long
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 12,89 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Mounds
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Author : William Jerome Harrison
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 19,14 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Avebury (England)
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Author : Mark Bowden
Publisher : English Heritage
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 27,66 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848021167
Stonehenge is arguably the greatest prehistoric monument in western Europe; as a World Heritage Site it ranks in significance with such sites as the Acropolis of Athens, the Pyramids of Giza, Great Zimbabwe and Machu Picchu. Stonehenge sits at the heart of a landscape rich in other monuments and remains of the Neolithic period and Bronze Age that are also part of the World Heritage Site. Recent research by English Heritage's landscape archaeologists within the Stonehenge World Heritage Site has led to the identification of previously unknown sites and, perhaps even more importantly, the re-interpretation of known sites, including Stonehenge itself. This work has been carried out alongside recent and on-going independent research initiatives conducted by a number of academic institutions, involving international co-operation. This book presents the most significant findings of the English Heritage research and shows how it integrates with the results of work undertaken by colleagues in other research bodies. It traces human influence on the landscape from prehistoric times to the very recent past and presents an up-to-date synthesis of the results of recent fieldwork. It will be of value to anyone interested in Stonehenge itself, in megalithic monuments, in the Neolithic period and Bronze Age of Europe and in the historic evolution of chalkland landscapes.
Author : William Long
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Page : 288 pages
File Size : 10,34 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Stonehenge (England)
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Author : William LONG (M.A., F.S.A.)
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Page : 298 pages
File Size : 34,20 MB
Release : 1876
Category :
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Author : Stuart Needham
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 2021-12-15
Category :
ISBN : 9789464260465
Appendices to the main volume 'Barrows at the core of Bronze Age Communities'
Author : Lynne Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,93 MB
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1107059372
In this book, Lynne Kelly explores the role of formal knowledge systems in small-scale oral cultures in both historic and archaeological contexts. In the first part, she examines knowledge systems within historically recorded oral cultures, showing how the link between power and the control of knowledge is established. Analyzing the material mnemonic devices used by documented oral cultures, she demonstrates how early societies maintained a vast corpus of pragmatic information concerning animal behavior, plant properties, navigation, astronomy, genealogies, laws and trade agreements, among other matters. In the second part Kelly turns to the archaeological record of three sites, Chaco Canyon, Poverty Point and Stonehenge, offering new insights into the purpose of the monuments and associated decorated objects. This book demonstrates how an understanding of rational intellect, pragmatic knowledge and mnemonic technologies in prehistoric societies offers a new tool for analysis of monumental structures built by non-literate cultures.
Author : Leslie V. Grinsell
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 33,18 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Social Science
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Author : Edward Herbert Stone
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 24,5 MB
Release : 1924
Category : England
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Author : Francis Pryor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 19,2 MB
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1681777037
Perched on the chalk uplands of Salisbury Plain, the megaliths of Stonehenge offer one of the most recognizable outlines of any ancient structure. Its purpose—place of worship, sacrificial arena, giant calendar—is unknown, but its story is one of the most extraordinary of any of the world's prehistoric monuments. Constructed in several phases over a period of some 1500 years, beginning in 3000 BC, Stonehenge's key elements are its “bluestones,” transported from West Wales by unexplained means, and its sarsen stones quarried from the nearby Marlborough Downs. Francis Pryor delivers a rigorous account of the nature and history of Stonehenge, but also places the enigmatic monument in a wider cultural context, bringing acute insight into how antiquarians, scholars, writers, artists–and even neopagans—have interpreted the mystery over the centuries.