The Stonehenge People: An Exploration of Life in Neolithic Britain 4700-2000 BC

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Routledge, Jan 31, 2002 - History - 296 pages

First published in 1990. Of all the monuments left by the past, Stonehenge is the most evocative, the most memorable and the most mysterious. Whilst the monuments of other cultures have gradually surrendered their mysteries, Stonehenge alone seems to stimulate endless conjecture. Rodney Castleden's vivid presentation of the world of the megaliths answers many of the most baffling questions about Stonehenge. There are, he stresses, few absolute certainties, but from the vast body of evidence assembled during the last hundred years it is now possible to get much closer to the truth than ever before. Who built the monuments and for what purpose? How were the bluestones moved from the sacred mountains of the west to Salisbury Plain? Who were the people responsible for this amazing undertaking, and what did they think and believe?

 

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About the author (2002)

Rodney Casdeden is a geographer and geomorphologist by training and has been actively involved in research on landscape processes and prehistory for the last twenty years. He is also the author of The Knossos Labyrinth (1989), Minoans (1990) and The Making of Stonehenge (I993).

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TitleThe Stonehenge People: An Exploration of Life in Neolithic Britain 4700-2000 BC
AuthorRodney Castleden
PublisherRoutledge, 2002
ISBN113495350X, 9781134953509
Length296 pages
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History / General
Social Science / Archaeology
  
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