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Stonehenge : the story of a sacred landscape
- Title
- Stonehenge : the story of a sacred landscape / Francis Pryor.
- Author
- Pryor, Francis
- Publication
- New York : Pegasus Books, 2018.
- ©2017
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- Description
- 207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps; 20 cm
- Summary
- "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.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-205) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue: Why Stonehenge matters -- Introduction: Religion, landscape and change -- After the ice (8000-4000 BC) -- The Stonehenge "ritual landscape" (4000-1500 BC) -- Before the great stones, part I: the formative years (from 3300 BC) -- Before the great stones, part II: stage 1 (from 3000 BC) -- The great stones arrive: stage 2 (from 2500 BC) -- The journey from life to death: stage 3 (from 2400 BC) -- Later developments: stages 4 and 5 (2100-1500 BC) -- After the stones -- Stonehenge today -- Appendix I. Timeline of significant events in British prehistory -- Appendix II. The ditch and the gradual establishment of Stonehenge.
- ISBN
- 9781681776408
- 1681776405
- LCCN
- 99976148681
- OCLC
- on1018199279
- 1018199279
- SCSB-8983458
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries