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Storbritanniens & Irlands historia

Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 448
Utgivningsdatum: 2001-08-01
Upplaga: New ed
Förlag: Arrow Books Ltd
Illustrationer: 8pp b&w illustrations, maps, plans
Dimensioner: 202 x 130 x 29 mm
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ISBN: 9780099278757

Hengeworld

Name: Hengeworld
Price: 195.00 SEK
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Author: Michael Pitts
ISBN: 9780099278757

Substantially Revised, Including the Latest on the Newly Discovered Stonehenge Skeleton

av Michael Pitts

Häftad, Engelska, 2001-08-01

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In November 1997 English Heritage announced the discovery of a vast prehistoric temple in Somerset. The extraordinary wooden rings at Stanton Drew are the most recent and biggest of a series of remarkable discoveries that have transformed the way archaeologists think of the great monuments in the region, including Avebury and Stonehenge; one of the world's most famous prehistoric monuments, top tourist site and top location for summer solstice celebrations. The results of these discoveries have not been published outside academic journals and no one has considered the wider implications of these finds. Here Mike Pitts, who has worked as an archaeologist at Avebury, and has access to the unpublished English Heritage files, asks what sort of people designed and built these extraordinary neolithic structures - the biggest in Britain until the arrival of medieval cathedrals. Using computer reconstructions he shows what they looked like and asks what they are for. This is the story of the discovery of a lost civilisation that spanned five centuries, a civilisation that now lies mostly beneath the fields of Southern England.

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Generations have tried to understand the meaning of this amazing monument... yet till now no one has bene able to say with any confidence what it was for... an up-to-date, eye-opening book on our greatest prehistoric monument * Daily Mail * Reads like a whodunnit * Manchester Evening News * Mike Pitts is that rare thing, an archaeologist who not only makes the news...but who can also write it. This book is a gem - witty, charming, urbane, informative * Simon Denison, British Archaeology *

Mike Pitts, the only living archaeologist to have directed excavations at both Stonehenge and Avebury, studied at the Institue of Archaeology (University College London) before moving to Wiltshire for a stint as Curator of the Alexander Keiller Museum. He has written extensively for academic journals, as well as for radio, newspapers and popular magazines and his first book Fairweather Eden was published in 1997 to critical acclaim.