Title:
Stonehenge : the story of a sacred landscape / Francis Pryor.
Author:
Pryor, Francis, author.
Publication Information:
New York : Pegasus Books, 2018.
©2017
Call Number:
DA142 .P79 2018
Abstract:
"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.
Edition:
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
ISBN:
9781681776408
Physical Description:
207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 20 cm.
Contents:
Prologue: Why Stonehenge matters -- Introduction: Religion, landscape and change -- After the ice (8000-4000 BC) -- The Stonehenge "ritual landscape" (4000-1500 BC) -- Before the great stones, part I: the formative stage (from 3300 BC) -- Before the great stones, part II: stage 1 (from 3000 BC) -- The great stones arrive: stage 2 (from 2500 BC) -- The journey from life to death: stage 3 (from 2400 BC) -- Later developments: stages 4 and 5 (2100-1500 BC) -- After the stones -- Stonehenge today -- Appendix I. Timeline of significant events in British prehistory -- Appendix II. The ditch and the gradual establishment of Stonehenge.
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