Title & Author:

Science and Stonehenge / edited by Barry Cunliffe and Colin Renfrew.

Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1997.

Description:

xiii, 362p. ; 26 cm.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 92

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Setting the scene : Stonehenge in the round / Colin Renfrew -- The structural history of Stonehenge / Andrew J. Lawson -- Dating Stonehenge / Alex Bayliss [and others] -- Mapping the Stonehenge world heritage site / Dave Batchelor -- Geophysical surveys within the Stonehenge landscape : a review of past endeavour and future potential / A. David & A. Payne -- Environment and land-use : the economic development of the communities who built Stonehenge (an economy to support the stones) / Michael J. Allen -- Remembered and imagined belongings : Stonehenge in its traditions and structures of meaning / Alasdair Whittle -- Ever increasing circles : the sacred geographies of Stonehenge and its landscape / Timothy Darvill -- Astronomy and Stonehenge / Clive Ruggles -- The engineering of Stonehenge / Julian Richards & Mark Whitby -- The provenance of rocks used in the construction of Stonehenge / C.P. Green -- Transport of the Stonehenge bluestones : testing the glacial hypothesis / J.D. Scourse -- The Stonehenge bluestones : discussion / O. Williams-Thorpe, C.P. Green & J.D. Scourse -- Stonehenge in its wider context / George Eogan -- Future directions for the study of Stonehenge and its landscape / G.J. Wainwright.

ISBN:

0197261744
9780197261743

Subject:

Archaeology.
Astronomy
Archéologie.
archaeology.
Cromlechs Great Britain.
Megalithic monuments Great Britain.
Stone circles Great Britain.
Stonehenge (England)
Stonehenge (Angleterre)
England Stonehenge
science
Stonehenge

Form/genre:

Proceedings.

Added entries:

Cunliffe, Barry W.
Renfrew, Colin, 1937-
British Academy.
Proceedings of the British Academy ; 92.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 196797
Call No.: ID DA142.S35; ID:98-B1657
Status: Available