Rodney Castleden

The Stonehenge People

An Exploration of Life in Neolithic Britain 4700-2000 BC

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780415040655
• ISBN-10: 0415040655
• Artikelnr.: 21466692

Autorenporträt

Rodney Casdeden is a geographer and geomorphologist by training and has been actively involved in research on landscape processes and prehistory for the last twenty years. He is also the author of The Knossos Labyrinth (1989), Minoans (1990) and The Making of Stonehenge (I993).

Inhaltsangabe

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FOREWORD BY SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. THE MYSTERIOUS MONUMENT
PART 1: SETTLEMENT AND AGRICULTURE
2. HERE IN THIS MAGIC WOOD
3. HEARTH AND HOME
4. THE BROKEN CIRCLE
PART 2: INDUSTRY
TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATIONS
5 OF THE EFFECTE OF CERTAINE STONE
6. CLAY CIRCLES: THE FIRST POTTERY
7. BY WHAT MECHANICAL CRAFT
8. BY THE DEVIL'S FORCE
PART 3: THE CEREMONIAL MONUMENTS
9. EARTH CIRCLES AND EARTH LINES: THE RITUAL FUNCTION
10. THE OLD TEMPLES OF THE GODS
11. DIALOGUE WITH DEATH
PART 4: PEOPLE
POLITY AND PHILOSOPHY
12. THE LAUGHING CHILDREN
13. THE PEACEFUL CITADEL
14. THE GREAT MYSTERY
15. THE SPEAKING STONES
CONCLUSION
16. CHILDHOOD'S END
APPENDIX: CONVERSION TABLES FOR RADIOCARBON DATES
REFERENCES
INDEX