Stonehenge : the story of a sacred landscape

Author

Francis Pryor

Call Number

• 936.2319 P9734 (CEN)

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Edition

First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Pegasus Books, 2018.

Physical Description

207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm

Summary

Pryor delivers a rigorous account of the nature and history of Stonehenge, but also places the enigmatic monument in a wider cultural context, bringing acute insight into how antiquarians, scholars, writers, artists, and even neopagans, have interpreted the mystery over the centuries.

Contents

• Prologue: Why Stonehenge matters
• Introduction: Religion, landscape and change
• After the ice (8000-4000 BC)
• The Stonehenge "ritual landscape" (4000-1500 BC)
• Before the great stones, part I: the formative years (from 3300 BC)
• Before the great stones, part II: stage 1 (from 3000 BC)
• The great stones arrive: stage 2 (from 2500 BC)
• The journey from life to death: stage 3 (from 2400 BC)
• Later developments: stages 4 and 5 (2100-1500 BC)
• After the stones
• Stonehenge today
• Appendix I. Timeline of significant events in British prehistory
• Appendix II. The ditch and the gradual establishment of Stonehenge.