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Stonehenge: Neolithic Man and the Cosmos
John North
‘The clearest and most detailed account of Stonehenge for a generation.’ Mail on SundayJohn North’s extraordinary book finally solves the riddle of Stonehenge.How? By carefully reassessing the archaeological evidence and reconstructing the heavens as they would have appeared thousands of years ago.As well as considering Stonehenge, John North draws evidence from prehistoric remains throughout Britain and northern Europe – the stone circles at Avebury, the White Horse at Uffington, the Long Man of Wilmington in Sussex and the long barrows which are dotted over southern England.He shows how all these pieces fit together to establish the function of the stones themselves and what we can know of the religion that caused them to be erected in the first place.
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Further praise for Stonehenge:
‘North has many ingenious new proposals … the leading title for scientists who take an interest in archaeology.’
CHRISTOPHER CHIPPENDALE, New Scientist
‘Professor North is a distinguished historian of science teaching in the Netherlands, and therefore also a historian of past ideas and beliefs … He is the right kind of person to be involved in these immensely taxing enquiries and can alone offer fresh understandings of what may have driven and coloured Neolithic activity … The book’s length partly reflects the author’s successful intent to provide explanations in near-plain language. Occasionally the prose seems quite lyrical … I suspect we shall never know what certain phases of Stonehenge were really designed for, and the same goes for some of the less intricate monuments in that region, but I also now suspect that John North is nudging us with considerable skill in the only credible direction.’
CHARLES THOMAS, Literary Review
‘Stonehenge covers years of study by an eminent historian of science, and pays meticulous attention to archaeological surveys, ancient knowledge of the heavens and other prehistoric remains in Britain and northern Europe.’
Hampstead and Highgate Express
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CONTENTS
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TITLE PAGE (#u3a88fedf-8395-5157-a75c-212dc4d6607b)
COPYRIGHT (#ulink_d42cb4c5-2e4f-5750-9d6b-6e0de084be42)
PRAISE (#ulink_8b671ec2-fd9e-5015-9de2-7ac09ff9a909)
DEDICATION (#ulink_085e4e56-420f-5f17-9f11-43f6c8f4a613)
LIST OF FIGURES (#ulink_9200d1d5-3d72-5202-8751-c85eee0a7167)
GLOSSARY (#ulink_22822e32-8ac4-50ea-98e5-d44df3559d10)
PREFACE (#ulink_62d75534-7a5d-5ca8-a320-1fee62f2cc8c)
CHRONOLOGY (#ulink_092cf6eb-a0c3-5302-8efa-337c1f1ffb56)
1 INTRODUCTION (#ulink_f6518a58-0a71-5168-8a3b-ee8ad4fc14d0)
The People (#ulink_769a5d19-f74d-5f06-aea2-aa7fb02d9b02)
Alignments and Orientations (#ulink_9d7453f3-6263-5e8e-bd6d-f71a1f9d8d25)
2 THE LONG BARROWS (#ulink_4b551cd4-d126-560c-bc06-a940676abf3b)
Neolithic Chamber-Tombs—an Introduction (#ulink_10a4ed91-c3ce-5861-a2b4-24cc668fe640)
Orientation of the Body (#ulink_71c21b27-e999-5ffc-b481-0afb651428de)
Inconstant Stars (#ulink_38966d71-8c60-5daa-8a65-a6404d6adab9)
First Thoughts on the Taper of Long Barrows (#ulink_dc97a5a1-e61a-51f6-b039-d905e99a55fc)
The Orientation of Long Barrows (#ulink_47f95f60-2f0b-54ce-bc32-37f204284b66)
Fussell’s Lodge (#ulink_50bc9dcf-020d-5018-bb7b-e12c4369535c)
Wayland’s Smithy I
Wayland’s Smithy II
Frame and Form at Wayland’s Smithy
Fussell’s Lodge Revisited
Lambourn
Horslip (Windmill Hill)
West Kennet and its Star Chambers
The West Kennet Ditches
The West Kennet Neighbourhood. Silbury Hill
Beckhampton Road. Stars and the Sun
South Street
Skendleby: Giants’ Hills 1 and 2. Stars and Sun
The Radley Parallelogram
The Grendon Square Barrow
Hazleton North and Burn Ground—Cotswold–Severn Long Cairns
An Assessment
A Postscript on Venus
A Postscript on Chance
3 CURSUS AND ENCLOSURE
The Great Earthen Monuments
Windmill Hill and Barrow Rings
The Two Stonehenge Cursus and their Dorset Precursor
The Probable Evolution of the Dorset Cursus
Another Bokerley Cursus?
The Lesser Stonehenge Cursus
Long Barrows, Territories and Totems
The Greater Stonehenge Cursus
The Coombe Bissett Parallelogram
4 STARS IN CHALK
The Uffington White Horse
The Wilmington Long Man and Neighbouring Barrows
The History of the Long Man and his Staves
The Bledlow and Whiteleaf Crosses
The Cerne Giant
5 SUN AND MOON
The Seasons: an Astronomical Sketch
Risings and Settings of the Sun and Moon
Some Examples of Extremes of Rising and Setting
6 AVENUE AND ROW
From Cursus to Avenue
Pits and Posts
Avenue and Row
The Stonehenge Avenue
The Stone Rows. Tracks across Dartmoor
The Avenues near Avebury: Introduction
The West Kennet Avenue
The Beckhampton Avenue
The Principle of Tangent and Centre
Long Barrow, Cursus, Avenue and Row
7 TREEHENGE AND AUBREY CIRCLE
Changes of Style
Henges of Timber
