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Category : Megalithic monuments
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author: STONEHENGE.
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Author: Samuel Johnson
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Category : Blanc, Mont (France and Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Author: Stonehenge
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Pages : 80

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Author: Edward Herbert Stone
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Author: Shawndra Shofner
Publisher: The Creative Company
ISBN: 9781583413609
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Describes what Stonehenge is and discusses theories behind its construction and use.

Author: Mike Pitts
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500777179
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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Icon of the New Stone Age, sculptural and engineering marvel, symbol of national pride: there is nothing quite like Stonehenge. These great sarsen and bluestone slabs, arranged with simple, graphic genius, attract visitors from across the world. The monument stands silent in the face of the questions its unlikely existence raises: who built it? Why? How? There has been endless speculation about why Stonehenge was built, inspiring theories ranging from the academically credible to the improbable, but far less investigation into how. In the millennia since its creation, pieces of Stonehenge have been knocked over by heavy machinery, found their way to Florida (and back again), and been exposed to radioactive sodium, but the seemingly impossible endeavour of raising the stones with Neolithic technology has remained inexplicable until now. In the past decade ground-breaking discoveries, made possible by cutting-edge scientific techniques, have traced the precise provenance of the bluestones in Wales, but can we plot their journeys to the Salisbury Plain? And how might teams of labourers lacking machinery or even pack animals have dragged them 150 miles to the site? How did they carve joints into the sarsen boulders, among the hardest stones in the world, and then raise them into place? Mike Pitts draws on a lifetimes study to answer these questions, revealing how Stonehenge stood not in austere isolation, as we see it today, but as part of a wider world, the focus of a megalithic cosmology of belief, ritual and creativity.

Author: Francis Pryor
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681777037
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Perched on the chalk uplands of Salisbury Plain, the megaliths of Stonehenge offer one of the most recognizable outlines of any ancient structure. Its purpose—place of worship, sacrificial arena, giant calendar—is unknown, but its story is one of the most extraordinary of any of the world's prehistoric monuments. Constructed in several phases over a period of some 1500 years, beginning in 3000 BC, Stonehenge's key elements are its “bluestones,” transported from West Wales by unexplained means, and its sarsen stones quarried from the nearby Marlborough Downs. Francis 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.