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Author : Edgar Barclay
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Stonehenge and Its Earth-works written by Edgar Barclay and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lindsay Jones
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813937795
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book The Newark Earthworks written by Lindsay Jones and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered a wonder of the ancient world, the Newark Earthworks—the gigantic geometrical mounds of earth built nearly two thousand years ago in the Ohio valley--have been a focal point for archaeologists and surveyors, researchers and scholars for almost two centuries. In their prime one of the premier pilgrimage destinations in North America, these monuments are believed to have been ceremonial centers used by ancestors of Native Americans, called the "Hopewell culture," as social gathering places, religious shrines, pilgrimage sites, and astronomical observatories. Yet much of this territory has been destroyed by the city of Newark, and the site currently "hosts" a private golf course, making it largely inaccessible to the public. The first book-length volume devoted to the site, The Newark Earthworks reveals the magnitude and the geometric precision of what remains of the earthworks and the site’s undeniable importance to our history. Including contributions from archaeologists, historians, cultural geographers, and cartographers, as well as scholars in religious studies, legal studies, indigenous studies, and preservation studies, the book follows an interdisciplinary approach to shine light on the Newark Earthworks and argues compellingly for its designation as a World Heritage Site.
Author : Arthur Hadrian Allcroft
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Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Earthwork of England written by Arthur Hadrian Allcroft and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mike Pitts
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500777179
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book How to Build Stonehenge written by Mike Pitts and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Mark Bowden
Publisher : English Heritage
ISBN 13 : 9781848021167
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (211 download)
Download or read book The Stonehenge Landscape written by Mark Bowden and published by English Heritage. This book was released on 2015 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stonehenge is arguably the greatest prehistoric monument in western Europe; as a World Heritage Site it ranks in significance with such sites as the Acropolis of Athens, the Pyramids of Giza, Great Zimbabwe and Machu Picchu. Stonehenge sits at the heart of a landscape rich in other monuments and remains of the Neolithic period and Bronze Age that are also part of the World Heritage Site. Recent research by English Heritage's landscape archaeologists within the Stonehenge World Heritage Site has led to the identification of previously unknown sites and, perhaps even more importantly, the re-interpretation of known sites, including Stonehenge itself. This work has been carried out alongside recent and on-going independent research initiatives conducted by a number of academic institutions, involving international co-operation. This book presents the most significant findings of the English Heritage research and shows how it integrates with the results of work undertaken by colleagues in other research bodies. It traces human influence on the landscape from prehistoric times to the very recent past and presents an up-to-date synthesis of the results of recent fieldwork. It will be of value to anyone interested in Stonehenge itself, in megalithic monuments, in the Neolithic period and Bronze Age of Europe and in the historic evolution of chalkland landscapes.
Author : Heywood Sumner
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Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (872 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Earthworks of the New Forest written by Heywood Sumner and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Suzaan Boettger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520241169
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Earthworks written by Suzaan Boettger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her examination of Earthworks relationship to the ecology movement perceptively corrects a popular misconception about the artists goals while acknowledging the social and cultural complexities of the period."
Author : Mike Parker Pearson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0857207334
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Stonehenge written by Mike Parker Pearson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 extensive work at the site, Parker Pearson and his team unearthed evidence of the Neolithic inhabitants and builders which connected the settlement at Durrington Walls with the henge, and contextualised Stonehenge within the larger site complex, linked by the River Avon, as well as in terms of its relationship with the rest of the British Isles. Parker Pearson's book changes the way that we think about Stonehenge; correcting previously erroneous chronology and dating; filling in gaps in our knowledge about its people and how they lived; identifying a previously unknown type of Neolithic building; discovering Bluestonehenge, a circle of 25 blue stones from western Wales; and confirming what started as a hypothesis - that Stonehenge was a place of the dead - through more than 64 cremation burials unearthed there, which span the monument's use during the third millennium BC. In lively and engaging prose, Parker Pearson brings to life the imposing ancient monument that continues to hold a fascination for everyone.
Author : Rosemary Hill
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847650759
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)
Download or read book Stonehenge written by Rosemary Hill and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stonehenge is woven into the earliest Arthurian legends and has been analysed by everyone from archaeologists, to town planners, to the Druids who have made it their spiritual home. By refusing to adopt one theoretical position, Rosemary Hill provides the most wide-ranging and expansive history of the megalithic structure to date, from its creation in 3000 BC to the threat of the thunderous main roads that flank it today.
Author : John Michell
Publisher : Ingram
ISBN 13 : 9781906069032
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Megalithomania written by John Michell and published by Ingram. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A feast of extraordinary theories and personalities centred around the mysterious standing stones of antiquity. John Michell tells the incredible story of the amazing reactions, ancient and modern, to these prehistoric relics, whether astronomical, legendary, mystical or visionary.
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Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes proceedings of the annual general meetings of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society.
Author : Edward Hungerford Goddard
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1066 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Magazine written by Edward Hungerford Goddard and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Scientific American written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monthly magazine devoted to topics of general scientific interest.
Author : David Nutt
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Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Stonehenge and Its Earthworks written by David Nutt and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold Bayley
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465572856
Total Pages : 981 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Archaic England: An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names and Faerie Superstitions written by Harold Bayley and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1920-01-01 with total page 981 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 876 pages
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Download or read book Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Coppens
Publisher : Adventures Unlimited Press
ISBN 13 : 9781931882699
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (826 download)
Download or read book Land of the Gods written by Philip Coppens and published by Adventures Unlimited Press. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land of the Gods is the historical, archeological story of the ancient inhabitants of Scotland, the Lothians and the Borders tribes, whom the Romans called the Goddodin. The Romans did not conquer these ancient inhabitants, though when they retreated from Britain, neighboring tribes tried to lay claim to their lands. Then a magnificent warrior emerged from these ancient Scottish tribes. Remembered as Arthur, he fought for the survival of his land and won, and his Camelot was the Lothians and Borders region. After his reign, the region was finally overrun and his people fled to Wales, where over time, the story of their magical kingdom to the north and their mythical hero coalesced into the myth of Camelot and King Arthur. Today, remnants of the spiritual architecture of these tribes are visible in Cairnpapple, Traprain Law and other ancient Scottish monuments. They accentuated their region's unique volcanic landscape to reflect their mythology, which spoke of gods descending to Earth from the sun god Loth.
