Stonehenge by Mike Parker Pearson
Exploring the Greatest Stone Age Mystery
Drawing on major recent excavations across the surrounding landscape, this book explains how the monument was built in stages, where its stones came from, and why it was aligned on the solstices. It follows evidence from west Wales quarries to river routes, the feasting settlement at Durrington Walls, and a riverside circle, arguing for processions linking places of the living and the dead within a memorial landscape for ancestors. Combining radiocarbon dating, isotope analysis, and artifact studies, it portrays a pan-British gathering place powered by seasonal pilgrimage, large-scale organization, and engineering ingenuity.
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- Published
- 2012
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 400-450
- Original Language
- English
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- Alternate Titles
- - Stonehenge: A New Understanding
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