Secrets of Stonehenge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Secrets of Stonehenge write by Mick Manning. This book was released on 2014-04-24. Secrets of Stonehenge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why was this amazing monument erected? How did our Stone-Age ancestors bring such massive stones to the site from so far away? How did they raise the enormous stones to their upright positions? What was Stonehenge used for, and who lived around the site? With captions and pictures, and using up-to-the-minute research discoveries, Mick Manning and Brita Granström tell the incredible true story of this awe-inspiring monument – one of the greatest ancient sites in the world.
A Brief History of Stonehenge
A Brief History of Stonehenge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Brief History of Stonehenge write by Aubrey Burl. This book was released on 2007. A Brief History of Stonehenge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A complete new history of the world's greatest stone circle Britain's leading expert on stone circles turns his attention to the greatest example of them all - Stonehenge. Every aspect of Stonehenge is re-considered in Aubrey Burl's new analysis. He explains for the first time how the outlying Heel Stone long predates Stonehenge itself, serving as a trackway marker in the prehistoric Harroway. He uncovers new evidence that the Welsh bluestones were brought to Stonehenge by glaciation rather than by man. And he reveals just how far the design of Stonehenge was influenced by Breton styles and by Breton cults of the dead. Meticulously research sets the record straight on the matter of Stonehenge's astronomical alignments. Although the existence of a sightline to the midsummer sunrise is well known, the alignment and the viewing-position are different from popular belief. And the existence of an earlier alignment to the moon and a later one to the midwinter sunset has been largely unrealized. One almost unexplained puzzle remains. The site of Stonehenge lies at the heart of a vast six-mile wide graveyard, but before it was built there appears to have been a mysterious gap two miles across on that site. Burl argues that earlier totem-pole style constructions served a ceremonial purpose for the living - to celebrate success in the hunt.
Stonehenge
Stonehenge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stonehenge write by Mike Parker Pearson. This book was released on 2012-06-07. Stonehenge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Story of Stonehenge
The Story of Stonehenge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Story of Stonehenge write by Patricia Southern. This book was released on 2012-07-15. The Story of Stonehenge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive history of the prehistoric megalithic structure at Stonehenge and those who built it.
A Brief History of Stonehenge
A Brief History of Stonehenge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Brief History of Stonehenge write by Aubrey Burl. This book was released on 2007. A Brief History of Stonehenge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
