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- catalog abstract ""Stonehenge, the megalithic monument in southern England that dates in its Bronze Age phase to 2000 B.C. (but with a history stretching back yet another thousand years to Neolithic times), attracts more than a million tourists a year, but is much more than a visible array of great standing stones. The entire region includes a vast cemetery and a number of other sites that indicate the remains of sizeable wooden buildings. Stonehenge was indeed its own city, the metropolitan center of a powerful kingdom heretofore unsuspected." "That city is reconstructed by the author from the archaeological evidence - royal palace, banquet hall and tomb, among other buildings. In passing, the author incisively demolishes the popular theory that Stonehenge served as a prehistoric astronomical observatory. He rather advances a political theory grounded in cultural continuities that carry forward into the early Iron Age, best documented in ancient Ireland. Here (apart from Homer) begins European literature, derived from oral traditions. The entire book is richly illustrated."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13001022.
- catalog coverage "Stonehenge (England)".
- catalog coverage "Wiltshire (England) Antiquities.".
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Stonehenge, the megalithic monument in southern England that dates in its Bronze Age phase to 2000 B.C. (but with a history stretching back yet another thousand years to Neolithic times), attracts more than a million tourists a year, but is much more than a visible array of great standing stones. The entire region includes a vast cemetery and a number of other sites that indicate the remains of sizeable wooden buildings. Stonehenge was indeed its own city, the metropolitan center of a powerful kingdom heretofore unsuspected." "That city is reconstructed by the author from the archaeological evidence - royal palace, banquet hall and tomb, among other buildings. In passing, the author incisively demolishes the popular theory that Stonehenge served as a prehistoric astronomical observatory. He rather advances a political theory grounded in cultural continuities that carry forward into the early Iron Age, best documented in ancient Ireland. Here (apart from Homer) begins European literature, derived from oral traditions. The entire book is richly illustrated."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (173-179) and index.".
- catalog description "The polymathic Dr. Charleton -- The monument -- The builders -- The reconstruction.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 182 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Stonehenge city.".
- catalog identifier "0786414693 (illustrated case binding : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Stonehenge city.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland,".
- catalog relation "Stonehenge city.".
- catalog spatial "England Wiltshire.".
- catalog spatial "Stonehenge (England)".
- catalog spatial "Wiltshire (England) Antiquities.".
- catalog subject "936.2/31 21".
- catalog subject "DA142 .S875 2003".
- catalog subject "Extinct cities England Wiltshire.".
- catalog subject "Megalithic monuments England Wiltshire.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The polymathic Dr. Charleton -- The monument -- The builders -- The reconstruction.".
- catalog title "Stonehenge city : a reconstruction / Leon Stover.".
- catalog type "text".