Stonehenge - A New Understanding Solving the Mysteries of the Greatest Stone Age Monument

Name: Stonehenge - A New Understanding Solving the Mysteries of the Greatest Stone Age Monument
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ISBN: 9781615190799

ISBN-10: 1615190791

ISBN-13: 9781615190799

Edition: 2013

Authors: Mike Parker Pearson, Stonehenge Riverside Project Staff

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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,…

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List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Experiment LLC, The
Publication date: 6/4/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Mike Parker Pearson is professor of archaeology at Sheffield University and an internationally renowned expert in the archaeology of death. The author of fourteen books and over 100 academic papers, he led the Stonehenge Riverside Project from 2003 to 2009. He has appeared in the National Geographic Channel documentary Stonehenge Decoded and in the NOVA episode "Secrets of Stonehenge."



Introduction



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


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Illustrations


Index