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Stonehenge for the Ancestors - Part 1: Landscape and Monuments (Paperback)
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Stonehenge for the Ancestors - Part 1: Landscape and Monuments (Paperback)
Series: The Stonehenge Riverside Project, 1
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For many centuries, scholars and enthusiasts have been fascinated
by Stonehenge, the world's most famous stone circle. In 2003 a team
of archaeologists commenced a long-term fieldwork project for the
first time in decades. The Stonehenge Riverside Project (2003-2009)
aimed to investigate the purpose of this unique prehistoric
monument by considering it within its wider archaeological context.
This is the first of four volumes which present the results of that
campaign. It includes investigations of the monuments and landscape
that pre-dated Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain as well as of
excavation at Stonehenge itself. The main discovery at Stonehenge
was of cremated human remains from many individuals, allowing their
demography, health and dating to be established. With a revised
radiocarbon-dated chronology for Stonehenge's five stages of
construction, these burials can now be considered within the
context of the monument's development. The different types of stone
from which Stonehenge is formed - bluestones from Wales and sarsen
silcretes from more local sources - are investigated both at
Stonehenge and in its surroundings. These surrounding monuments
include single standing stones, the Cuckoo Stone and the Tor Stone,
as well as the newly discovered circle of Bluestonehenge at West
Amesbury beside the River Avon. The ceremonial Stonehenge Avenue,
linking Stonehenge to Bluestonehenge, is also included, based on a
series of excavations along its length. The working hypothesis
behind the Stonehenge Riverside Project links Stonehenge with a
complex of timber monuments upstream at the great henge of
Durrington Walls and neighbouring Woodhenge. Whilst these other
sites are covered in a later volume (Volume 3), this volume
explores the role of the River Avon and its topographic and
environmental evidence. With contributions by: Umberto Albarella,
Michael Allen, Olaf Bayer, Wayne Bennett, Richard Bevins,
Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Chris Casswell, Andrew Chamberlain,
Benjamin Chan, Rosamund Cleal, Gordon Cook, Glyn Davies, David
Field, Charles French, Robert Ixer, Neil Linford, Peter Marshall,
Louise Martin, Claudia Minniti, Doug Mitcham, Bob Nunn, Andy Payne,
Mike Pitts, Rebecca Pullen, Julian Richards, David Robinson, Clive
Ruggles, Jim Rylatt, Rob Scaife, Ellen Simmons, Charlene Steele,
James Sugrue, Anne Teather, Sarah Viner, Tony Waldron, Katy
Whitaker and Christie Willis
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