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Description
While modern excavation and radiocarbon dating has undoubtedly advanced our knowledge of the sequence and date of the monuments, their purpose and meaning is still hotly debated. Indeed no previous century has changed its mind so often as the twentieth - or provided such a welter of differing opinions. Each theory has as much to say about its own time as it has about prehistory. The stones have been used to enhance the authority of the Bible, to endorse the civilizing mission of the
Even the views of modern archaeologists often seem to reflect the latest academic fad, rather than a lasting solution. Riddles in Stone is an entertaining and instructive account of a debate on a subject of endless fascination.
Table of Contents
Illustration Acknowledgements
Preface
1 Monuments in the Landscape
2 Pagan Traditions
3 The Church and the Devil
4 In Medieval Literature
5 The Wonder of Britain
6 John Aubrey and Friends
7 William Stukeley
8 William Borlase
9 Romantic Druids and the Picturesque
10 Richard Colt Hoare and William Cunnington
11 The Barrow Diggers
12 Stone Age Circles and Stone Age Man
13 Diffusionism
14 Megalith Builders
15 Beaker Folk
16 Stonehenge and the Wessex Culture
17 The Sun and the Stars
18 Sir Norman Lockyer and his Followers
19 Stonehenge Decoded
20 Pi and Pythagorean Thoughts
21 Alfred Watkins and the Old Straight Track
22 John Michell and The View over Atlantis
23 Mysterious Britain
24 Earth Mysteries
25 Radiocarbon and other Revolutions
26 Sex and the Dead
27 Landscape, Culture, Society
28 Epilogue
Gazetteer
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 15 Nov 2006 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 332 |
| ISBN | 9780826432568 |
| Imprint | Hambledon Continuum |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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