Stonehenge
Subtitle: the story of a sacred landscape
By: Francis Pryor
Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781681776408
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Engineering; Ancient History; Megalithic monuments; Antiquities
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-205) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Why Stonehenge matters; title: Introduction: Religion, landscape and change; title: After the ice (8000-4000 BC); title: The Stonehenge "ritual landscape" (4000-1500 BC); title: Before the great stones, part I: the formative years (from 3300 BC); title: Before the great stones, part II: stage 1 (from 3000 BC); title: The great stones arrive: stage 2 (from 2500 BC); title: The journey from life to death: stage 3 (from 2400 BC); title: Later developments: stages 4 and 5 (2100-1500 BC); title: After the stones; title: Stonehenge today; title: Appendix I. Timeline of significant events in British prehistory; title: Appendix II. The ditch and the gradual establishment of Stonehenge.