Megalith - 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 Megalith write by Hugh Newman. This book was released on 2020-09-09. Megalith available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do you predict eclipses at Stonehenge? Why do the Carnac alignments follow geological fault lines? Why is Avebury precisely one seventh of a circle down from the north pole? Why are so many stone circles egg-shaped or flattened? What is the meaning of the designs in ancient rock art? Why do you have to wait nineteen years to visit the remote site of Callanish? What were the ancients up to? This book details our oldest and grandest buildings, our first temples, our earliest visual art, messages which are still relevant today. With eight authors, and packed with detailed information and exquisite rare illustrations, Megalith is a timeless and valuable sourcebook for anyone interested in prehistory.
Megaliths
Megaliths - 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 Megaliths write by Lai Ngan Corio. This book was released on 2003. Megaliths available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. David Corio has systematically photographed the megalithic sites ofEngland and Wales with the eye of a great landscape photographeras well as with the passion of an explorer in the ruins of an ancientculture. These photographs go to the heart of prehistoric Englandand reveal a profound sense of'place'. The sites are revealed withall the beauty that invited Romantic speculation from theseventeenth century onwards as well as the encroaching modemworld of distant urban skylines and protective barriers. Lai Ngan'stext distils the mythical narratives that arose around theseextraordinary structures and places as well as pointing to the recentastronomical and mathematical research which suggests theirremarkable function in the prehistoric calendar. The photographspoint to the beginning of architecture itself in Britain, with thesuggestion of both sacred and secular function, layered in thefabulous tales of popular imagination.
Megaliths, Myths and Men
Megaliths, Myths and Men - 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 Megaliths, Myths and Men write by Peter Lancaster Brown. This book was released on 2013-01-23. Megaliths, Myths and Men available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fascinating study of early astronomical knowledge through the interpretation of such ancient monuments as Stonehenge, Carnac, other megalithic sites. Over 140 photos, maps, illustrations. "Fascinating."— Publishers Weekly.
Standing Stones
Standing Stones - 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 Standing Stones write by Jean-Pierre Mohen. This book was released on 1999. Standing Stones available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Who built the megaliths, those massive stone structures ranging from tombs to standing stones that date back to over 4000 BC? Why were they built? How were the enormous stones transported and erected? Were these strange, sacred stones used as temples or tombs, sculptures or houses? Covering the best-known sites - Avebury and Stonehenge in England, Carnac in France and Knowth in Ireland - and also less famous examples in Scandinavia, Malta, Egypt and Spain, this book considers the special significance - architectural, scientific, religious and cultural - of these enigmatic Neolithic stone structures.
The Megaliths of Northern Europe
The Megaliths of Northern Europe - 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 Megaliths of Northern Europe write by Magdalena Midgley. This book was released on 2008-07. The Megaliths of Northern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The North European megaliths are among the most enduring structures built in prehistory; they are imbued with symbolic meanings which embody physical and conceptual ideas about the nature of the world inhabited by the first Northern farmers. The Megaliths of Northern Europe provides a much needed up-to-date synthesis of the material available on these monuments, incorporating the results of recent research in Holland, Germany, Denmark and Sweden. This research has brought to light new data on the construction of the megaliths and their role in the cultural landscape, and Magdalena Midgley offers a fascinating interpretation of the symbolism of megalithic tombs within the context of early farming communities. This wealth of new evidence suggests the Northern European megaliths were important foci in the wider north-west European context. The construction of dolmens and passage graves, using huge glacial boulders, demanded both great communal effort and considerable skill. In addition to this technical expertise the master builders also made use of their esoteric knowledge of rituals. This was expressed in the use of exotic building materials and special architectural features, and in the placement of tombs within the natural and cultural landscapes, creating new metaphors and images. Fully illustrated, this book will be of interest to both undergraduate and postgraduate students of European Prehistory, Archaeology and Prehistoric Anthropology, as well as architects who study ancient architecture and social anthropologists who study modern megaliths.
