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Stonehenge: Exploring the Greatest Stone Age Mystery
Mike Parker Pearson
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Description for Stonehenge: Exploring the Greatest Stone Age Mystery
Paperback. A striking and original interpretation of the awesome Stone Age site from one of the world's foremost archaeologists on death and burial Num Pages: 416 pages, 16p colour plates & B-W integrated pics. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWW; 3B; HDDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 27. Weight in Grams: 328.
Our knowledge about Stonehenge has changed dramatically as a result of the Stonehenge Riverside Project (2003-2009), led by Mike Parker Pearson, and included not only Stonehenge itself but also the nearby great henge enclosure of Durrington Walls. This book is about the people who built Stonehenge and its relationship to the surrounding landscape. The book explores the theory that the people of Durrington Walls built both Stonehenge and Durrington Walls, and that the choice of stone for constructing Stonehenge has a significance so far undiscovered, namely, that stone was used for monuments to the dead. Through years of thorough and ... Read more
Our knowledge about Stonehenge has changed dramatically as a result of the Stonehenge Riverside Project (2003-2009), led by Mike Parker Pearson, and included not only Stonehenge itself but also the nearby great henge enclosure of Durrington Walls. This book is about the people who built Stonehenge and its relationship to the surrounding landscape. The book explores the theory that the people of Durrington Walls built both Stonehenge and Durrington Walls, and that the choice of stone for constructing Stonehenge has a significance so far undiscovered, namely, that stone was used for monuments to the dead. Through years of thorough and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857207326
SKU
V9780857207326
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About Mike Parker Pearson
Mike Parker Pearson is a Professor of Archaeology at Sheffield University. He is an internationally renowned expert in the archaeology of death and also specialises in the later prehistory of Britain and Northern Europe and the archaeology of Madagascar and the western Indian Ocean. He has published 14 books and over 100 academic papers.
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