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Stonehenge : neolithic man and the cosmos / John North.
- Title
- Stonehenge : neolithic man and the cosmos / John North.
- Author
- North, John David.
- Publication
- London : HarperCollins, 1996.
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- Description
- xliv, 609 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "John North's new book, whose importance in its field it would be difficult to underestimate, has finally solved the riddle of Stonehenge. By an incisive combination of meticulous attention to archaeological surveys, and knowledge of the heavens as they were many millennia ago, North establishes here the function of the stones themselves and what we can know of the religion that caused them to be erected. He draws his evidence from, and his argument encompasses, many of the other prehistoric remains of Britain and the northern continent of Europe - the long barrows that are dotted over southern England, the circles of Avebury, the hill carvings of the White Horse at Uffington and the Long Man of Wilmington in Sussex. North shows how all these pieces fit together in an extraordinary way."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [585]-596) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Long Barrows -- 3. Cursus and Enclosure -- 4. Stars in Chalk -- 5. Sun and Moon -- 6. Avenue and Row -- 7. Treehenge and Aubrey Circle -- 8. The Great Treehenges -- 9. Stonehenge Astronomy -- A Historical Prologue -- 10. Stonehenge -- An Inventory -- 11. The First Three Stonehenges -- 12. Lozenge and Calendar -- 13. Ritual and Belief -- App. 1. Radiocarbon Dating -- App. 2. The Astronomical Framework -- App. 3. Tables of Directions -- App. 4. Heliacal Rising and Setting -- App. 5. The Rising and Setting of Venus -- App. 6. Alignment in Later Religions.
- ISBN
- 0002557738
- LCCN
- ^^^97173273^
- OCLC
- 36166985
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library