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ISBN-10 : 1350192244 

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Author: Mike Parker Pearson 

Stonehenge is one of the world’s most famous monuments. Who built it, how and why are questions that have endured for at least 900 years, but modern methods of investigation are now able to offer up a completely new understanding of this iconic stone circle. Stonehenge’s history straddles the transition from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age, though its story began long before it was built. Serving initially as a burial ground, it evolved over time into a sacred place for gathering, feasting and building, and was remodelled several times as different peoples arrived in the area along with new technologies and customs. In more recent centuries it has found itself the centre of excavations, political protests and even conspiracy theories, embedding itself in the consciousness of the modern world. In this book Mike Parker Pearson draws on two decades of research, the results of recent excavations and cutting-edge scientific analyses to uncover many of the secrets that this prehistoric stone circle has kept for 5,000 years. In doing so, he paints the most comprehensive picture yet of the history of Stonehenge, from its origins up to the 21st century, and reveals how in some ways trying to explain its power of attraction in the present is harder than explaining its purpose in the ancient past.

Stonehenge: A Brief History 1st Table of contents:

CHAPTER 1 INVESTIGATING STONEHENGE: HOW WE KNOW WHAT WE KNOW
Stonehenge today
Investigating Stonehenge
Stonehenge in its landscape
Beyond the Stonehenge landscape
Interrogating Stonehenge
CHAPTER 2 BEFORE STONEHENGE
Hunter-gatherers: returning to a persistent place
The first farmers: feasting for the living, memorializing of the dead
The original Stonehenge? Megalith quarries and stone circles in west Wales
CHAPTER 3 THE FIRST STONEHENGE
Bringing stones from the Preseli hills of Wales
An axis mundi: the site of Stonehenge as an axis of the world
The dead of Stonehenge: Britain’s largest Neolithic cemetery
CHAPTER 4 THE SECOND STONEHENGE
Adding sarsens to the bluestones
Durrington Walls: feasting and gathering
CHAPTER 5 STONEHENGE (STAGE 3) IN THE AGE OF COPPER
The great henge of Durrington Walls
The Beaker people
Iconoclasm at Stonehenge
Beyond Salisbury Plain
CHAPTER 6 STONEHENGE (STAGE 4) IN THE AGE OF BRONZE
Rearranging the bluestones at Stonehenge
Renovating the Stonehenge Avenue
Round barrows: burial mounds in the Stonehenge landscape
CHAPTER 7 STONEHENGE (STAGE 5) IN THE AGE OF GOLD
The last stage of construction at Stonehenge
The gold-rich graves of the Wessex culture
CHAPTER 8 AFTER STONEHENGE: THE AGE OF SILENCE?
The Stonehenge Palisade Ditch complex
Sun, moon and astronomy: the origins of the druids?
Iron Age Stonehenge
What did the Romans do for Stonehenge?
Execution and burial at Stonehenge: after the Romans
Dismantling and quarrying Stonehenge
Writing about Stonehenge
CHAPTER 9 STONEHENGE INTO THE MODERN ERA
Antiquarian investigations
Bought for the nation
CHAPTER 10 DRUIDS, FREE FESTIVALS AND DEVELOPMENT PRESSURES: STONEHENGE IN CONTENTION
Druids
Free Festivals and New Agers
Development and the WHS
CHAPTER 11 STONEHENGE: THE NEVER-ENDING STORY
Theories about Stonehenge
A temple of the ancient druids
An astronomical observatory and calendar
Stonehenge for the ancestors
The healing hypothesis
Stonehenge as a monument of remembrance and unity: towards a holistic interpretation

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