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Stonehenge has been standing for thirty-five centuries. Books have been written about it for nine centuries. This is the first which sets out to reconstruct the religious and political life of the Stonehenge builders "as they intellectualized it and made it solid in their monument." Using archaeology, ethnology, ethnohistory, and epic literature the authors have placed the various stages of Stonehenge society on a continuum of cultural evolution,...

"People have puzzled over Stonehenge for centuries, speculating and dreaming about it, drawing and painting it, trying to make sense of it. Here is the story of the one real Stonehenge, as well as the many unreal Stonehenges that archaeologists, tourists, mystics, astronomers, artists, poets, and visionaries have made out of it. New studies in the past decade have revolutionized our knowledge of the complex sequence of structures that make its celebrated...

Combines a collection of full-color photographs of Stonehenge with the latest archaeological discoveries of who were the people that created the monument, including where they lived, how they survived, and how they amassed their wealth and power.

"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."--Front jacket flap.

Every year, a million visitors are drawn to the Salisbury Plain, in southern England, to gaze upon a mysterious circle of stones. Who built Stonehenge? What was its purpose? A new generation of researchers is tackling these questions, finding important clues in the landscape surrounding Stonehenge -one of the densest concentrations of prehistoric structures in the world. The story of Stonehenge is being rewritten.

"Archaeologist Aubrey Burl, for more than thirty years a specialist in the study of stone circles, selects a dozen attractive and evocative rings for close examination. Each of the twelve sites illuminates a particular archaeological question - the purpose of stone circles, their construction, age, distribution, design, art, legend and relation to astronomy."--Jacket.

Explore the incredible place called Stonehenge, and learn of some of the mysteries that still baffle us today.

Television programs on the history of the Colosseum and Stonehenge. Nova sent archaeological teams to each site to test their hypotheses using traditional building techniques.