Science and Stonehenge (Proceedings of the British Academy, Band 92) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0197261744 ISBN 13: 9780197261743

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Stonhenge continues to fascinate. In this volume, archaeologists, environmentalists, engineers, astronomers and geologists discuss a century of scientific archaeology. The papers are: Setting the scene: Stonehenge in the round ( Colin Renfrew ); The sructural history of Stonhenge ( Andrew J. Lawson ); Dating Stonehenge ( Alex Batliss, Christopher Bronk Ramsey and F. Gerry McCormac ); Mapping the Stonehenge world heritage site ( Dave Batchelor ); Geophysical surveys within the Stonehenge landscape ( A. David and A. Payne ); The economic development of the communities who built Stonehenge ( Michael J. Allen ); Stonehenge in its traditions and stuctures of meaning ( Alasdair Whittle ); The sacred geographies of Stonehenge and its landscape ( Timothy Darvill ); Astronomy and Stonehenge ( Clive Ruggles ); The engineering of Stonehenge ( Julian Richards and Mark Whitby ); The provenance of rocks used in the constrcution of Stonehenge ( C. P. Green ); Transport of Stonehenge Bluestones: testing the glacial hypothesis ( J. D. Scourse ); The Stonehenge Bluestones ( O. Williams-Thorpe, C. P. Green and J. D. Scourse ); Stonehenge in its wider context ( George Eogan ); Future directions for the study of Stonehenge and its landscape ( G. J. Wainwright ).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0197261744
• ISBN 13: 9780197261743
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 362
• Herausgeber: Cunliffe Barry, Renfrew Colin
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