Read Stonehenge a New Understanding Online
Authors: Mike Parker Pearson
Tags: #Social Science, #Archaeology
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John Gale’s team of Bournemouth University students excavating a round barrow at High Lea Farm, Dorset in 2008. The central baulk preserves the last remnants of the turf that once formed the mound, capped by chalk from the ditch. © Mike Parker Pearson and the Stonehenge Riverside Project
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Bush Barrow was excavated by Richard Colt Hoare in 1808. A plan of this Early Bronze Age grave, dating to about 1900 BC, has been reconstructed by Stuart Needham and colleagues from Hoare’s description of where the many grave goods lay in relation to the skeleton. The objects include bronze studs from the handle of
a dagger or knife (1), a bronze ax (2), a pair of bronze daggers and a gold belt buckle (3), a small bronze dagger (4), a gold lozenge (5), and a stone macehead and its bone and gold fittings (6). After Needham
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Silbury Hill has been excavated twice in modern times, by Atkinson in 1968–1970 and by English Heritage in 2007–2008. It dates to 2490–2340 BC, broadly contemporary with Stage 3 at Stonehenge. Aerial view. © English Heritage.
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Aedui, King of,
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Albarella, Umberto,
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Alfred the Great,
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Allen, Denise,
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Allen, Mike,
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cart tracks between Stonehenge and,
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Amesbury Abbey,
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Amesbury Archer,
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likely origins of,
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Amesbury 42 long barrow,
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Anderson-Whymark, Hugo,
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animal bones
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faunal remains; Durrington Walls: faunal remains from
Annals
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Antequera,
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antler picks,
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Antrobus, Sir Edmund,
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Antrobus, Sir Edward,
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archaeoastronomy,
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arrowheads
from Millmead,
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Arthur, King,
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Arts and Humanities Research Council,
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Atkinson, Richard,
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at Dorchester-on-Thames,
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and earthworms,
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and Q and R Holes’ dating,
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sarsens’ marshalling area suggested by,
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stone-moving, demonstration of, by,
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view of Stonehenge people,
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Aubrey Holes,
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bluestone holes’ similarity to,
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burials now known to have been placed in,
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identification of purpose of,
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Ring of Brodgar compared to,
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shown to be among first Stonehenge constructions,
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Aurelius Ambrosius,
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aurochs
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Austin, Louise,
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Avebury,
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complex sequence of use at,
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map showing location of,
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Sanctuary at,
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Avenue
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Durrington Walls: avenue; Stonehenge avenue
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jadeitite,
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rhyolite,
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stone, polished, distribution of, in South Wales,
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axis mundi,
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Ballynahatty,
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Bangor,
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Barford,
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Barnholm,
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Beacon Hill,
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Beaker people,
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arrival of,
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cattle as center of culture and economy of,
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distribution of,
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head-binding among,
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semi-mobility of,
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team assembled to research,
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teeth of,
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bear,
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Bedd yr Afanc,
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Bender, Barbara,
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Bennett, Wayne,
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possible purpose of,
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dolerite majority stone type among,
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dressing of,
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first circle of, at Stonehenge,
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igneous rocks among, range of,
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“lost” circle of,
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millennium experiment concerning transportation of,
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numbering system for,
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origin of,
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removed and re-erected,
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second delivery of,
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