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Stonehenge, a new understanding : solving the mysteries of the greatest stone age monument / by Mike Parker Pearson and the Stonehenge Riverside Project.
Penn Museum Library DA142 .P37 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parker Pearson, Michael, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stonehenge (England)--History.
- Stonehenge (England).
- England--Antiquities.
- England.
- Antiquities.
- Megalithic monuments--England.
- Megalithic monuments.
- Stonehenge World Heritage Site (England).
- England--Stonehenge.
- England--Stonehenge World Heritage Site.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 410 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Stonehenge, exploring the greatest stone age mystery.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Experiment, 2013.
- Summary:
- Despite its being one of prehistory's most alluring landmarks, before the Stonehenge Riverside Project led by noted archeologist Mike Parker Pearson, only half of Stonehenge itself, and far less of its surroundings, had ever been investigated; and many records from previous digs are inaccurate or incomplete. With fresh evidence based on seven years of unprecedented access to the Stonehenge World Heritage Site, this excavation replaces centuries of speculation about even the most fundamental mysteries of Stonehenge with hard proof. Stonehenge changes the way we think about the site, correcting previously erroneous dating, filling gaps in our knowledge about its builders and how they lived, clarifying the monument's significance both celestially and as a burial ground, and contextualizing Stonehenge, which sits at the center of one of the densest prehistoric settlements in history within the broader landscape of the Neolithic Age.
- Contents:
- The man from Madagascar
- A brief history of Stonehenge
- Starting the project
- Putting the trench in the right place
- The houses and the henge
- Was this where the Stonehenge builders lived?
- The great trilithon and the date of the Sarsens
- Mysterious earthworks : the landscape of Stonehenge
- Mysteries of the river
- The Druids and Stonehenge
- The Aubrey holes
- Digging at Stonehenge
- The people of Stonehenge and the Beaker people
- Bluestonehenge : back to the river
- Why Stonehenge is where it is
- Origins of the bluestones
- Origins of the Sarsens
- Earthworms and dates
- The new sequence for Stonehenge
- Stonehenge : the view from afar
- The end of Stonehenge.
- Notes:
- Originally published under title: Stonehenge : exploring the greatest stone age mystery. London : Simon & Schuster, 2012.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [359]-395) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1615190791
- 9781615190799
- OCLC:
- 811606827
- Publisher Number:
- 99957528999
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