Stonehenge: A Brief History (Archaeological Histories) 9781350192225, 9781350192232, 9781350192249, 9781350192256, 1350192228
Stonehenge is one of the world's most famous monuments. Who built it, how and why are questions that have endured f
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Table of contents :
Cover
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE
CHAPTER 1 INVESTIGATING STONEHENGE: HOW WE KNOW WHAT WE KNOW
Stonehenge today
Investigating Stonehenge
Stonehenge in its landscape
Beyond the Stonehenge landscape
Interrogating Stonehenge
CHAPTER 2 BEFORE STONEHENGE
Hunter-gatherers: returning to a persistent place
The first farmers: feasting for the living, memorializing of the dead
The original Stonehenge? Megalith quarries and stone circles in west Wales
CHAPTER 3 THE FIRST STONEHENGE
Bringing stones from the Preseli hills of Wales
An axis mundi: the site of Stonehenge as an axis of the world
The dead of Stonehenge: Britain’s largest Neolithic cemetery
CHAPTER 4 THE SECOND STONEHENGE
Adding sarsens to the bluestones
Durrington Walls: feasting and gathering
CHAPTER 5 STONEHENGE (STAGE 3) IN THE AGE OF COPPER
The great henge of Durrington Walls
The Beaker people
Iconoclasm at Stonehenge
Beyond Salisbury Plain
CHAPTER 6 STONEHENGE (STAGE 4) IN THE AGE OF BRONZE
Rearranging the bluestones at Stonehenge
Renovating the Stonehenge Avenue
Round barrows: burial mounds in the Stonehenge landscape
CHAPTER 7 STONEHENGE (STAGE 5) IN THE AGE OF GOLD
The last stage of construction at Stonehenge
The gold-rich graves of the Wessex culture
CHAPTER 8 AFTER STONEHENGE: THE AGE OF SILENCE?
The Stonehenge Palisade Ditch complex
Sun, moon and astronomy: the origins of the druids?
Iron Age Stonehenge
What did the Romans do for Stonehenge?
Execution and burial at Stonehenge: after the Romans
Dismantling and quarrying Stonehenge
Writing about Stonehenge
CHAPTER 9 STONEHENGE INTO THE MODERN ERA
Antiquarian investigations
Bought for the nation
CHAPTER 10 DRUIDS, FREE FESTIVALS AND DEVELOPMENT PRESSURES: STONEHENGE IN CONTENTION
Druids
Free Festivals and New Agers
Development and the WHS
CHAPTER 11 STONEHENGE: THE NEVER-ENDING STORY
Theories about Stonehenge
A temple of the ancient druids
An astronomical observatory and calendar
Stonehenge for the ancestors
The healing hypothesis
Stonehenge as a monument of remembrance and unity: towards a holistic interpretation
CHRONOLOGY OF THE BUILDING OF STONEHENGE
CHRONOLOGICAL DRAMATIS PERSONAE OF DECEASED AUTHORS, PERSONALITIES AND INVESTIGATORS OF STONEHENGE
NOTES
FURTHER READING
GLOSSARY
REFERENCES
INDEX
Cover
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE
CHAPTER 1 INVESTIGATING STONEHENGE: HOW WE KNOW WHAT WE KNOW
Stonehenge today
Investigating Stonehenge
Stonehenge in its landscape
Beyond the Stonehenge landscape
Interrogating Stonehenge
CHAPTER 2 BEFORE STONEHENGE
Hunter-gatherers: returning to a persistent place
The first farmers: feasting for the living, memorializing of the dead
The original Stonehenge? Megalith quarries and stone circles in west Wales
CHAPTER 3 THE FIRST STONEHENGE
Bringing stones from the Preseli hills of Wales
An axis mundi: the site of Stonehenge as an axis of the world
The dead of Stonehenge: Britain’s largest Neolithic cemetery
CHAPTER 4 THE SECOND STONEHENGE
Adding sarsens to the bluestones
Durrington Walls: feasting and gathering
CHAPTER 5 STONEHENGE (STAGE 3) IN THE AGE OF COPPER
The great henge of Durrington Walls
The Beaker people
Iconoclasm at Stonehenge
Beyond Salisbury Plain
CHAPTER 6 STONEHENGE (STAGE 4) IN THE AGE OF BRONZE
Rearranging the bluestones at Stonehenge
Renovating the Stonehenge Avenue
Round barrows: burial mounds in the Stonehenge landscape
CHAPTER 7 STONEHENGE (STAGE 5) IN THE AGE OF GOLD
The last stage of construction at Stonehenge
The gold-rich graves of the Wessex culture
CHAPTER 8 AFTER STONEHENGE: THE AGE OF SILENCE?
The Stonehenge Palisade Ditch complex
Sun, moon and astronomy: the origins of the druids?
Iron Age Stonehenge
What did the Romans do for Stonehenge?
Execution and burial at Stonehenge: after the Romans
Dismantling and quarrying Stonehenge
Writing about Stonehenge
CHAPTER 9 STONEHENGE INTO THE MODERN ERA
Antiquarian investigations
Bought for the nation
CHAPTER 10 DRUIDS, FREE FESTIVALS AND DEVELOPMENT PRESSURES: STONEHENGE IN CONTENTION
Druids
Free Festivals and New Agers
Development and the WHS
CHAPTER 11 STONEHENGE: THE NEVER-ENDING STORY
Theories about Stonehenge
A temple of the ancient druids
An astronomical observatory and calendar
Stonehenge for the ancestors
The healing hypothesis
Stonehenge as a monument of remembrance and unity: towards a holistic interpretation
CHRONOLOGY OF THE BUILDING OF STONEHENGE
CHRONOLOGICAL DRAMATIS PERSONAE OF DECEASED AUTHORS, PERSONALITIES AND INVESTIGATORS OF STONEHENGE
NOTES
FURTHER READING
GLOSSARY
REFERENCES
INDEX
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