Hengeworld Life in Britain 2000 BC as Revealed by the Latest Discoveries at Stonehenge, Avebury and Stanton Drew

by Pitts, Mike

• ISBN13: 9780099278757
• ISBN10: 0099278758
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Random House UK

Summary

This is a story of the discovery of a lost civilization that spanned five centuriesa civilization that now lies mostly beneath the fields of Southern England. Mike Pitts, an archaeologist, asks what sort of people designed and built these extraordinary structures. Using computer reconstructions he shows what they looked like and attempts to discover what their purpose was.

Author Biography

Michael Pitts is an archaeologist who has excavated at Stonehenge and Avebury. He is co-author with Mark Roberts of the critically acclaimed<i> Fairweather Eden</i>, the story of Boxgrove Man.

Table of Contents

Plate Captions	ix
Preface to Paper back Edition	xi
Acknowledgements	xvii
New Posts	1	(14)
PART I: From Woodhenge to Superhenge
A Very British Habit	15	(8)
A Way of Life	23	(8)
The Discovery of Woodhenge	31	(9)
Raising the Roof	40	(8)
The Consensus of Learned Opinion Is against You	48	(14)
Shelling Peas	62	(15)
PART II: Peopling Stonehenge
A Darn' Nuisance	77	(3)
No Fooling About	80	(7)
Why Didn't You See that Pit?	87	(4)
I Do Not the Least Mind the Loneliness	91	(8)
The Clean Museum	99	(4)
Oh My God, We've Got Our Dates Wrong	103	(8)
Traumatic Pathology Is Manifest	111	(5)
Badly Broken in Transit	116	(10)
Some Bits Have Gone Walkabout	126	(9)
A Walk through the Stones	135	(16)
Patient Name: Stonehenge	151	(3)
Extending the Trench	154	(17)
PART III: Avebury and How the Past Was Built
We Looked at Each Other and Said `Why Not?'	171	(10)
I Have Always Regretted Missing that Photograph	181	(15)
Ye Same to Some of the Stones in ye Inner Circle	196	(9)
Fantasies and Maggots	205	(17)
Seeing Stars	222	(16)
The Lintels Are All Wonky	238	(13)
PART IV: Stonehenge of the Ancestors
All for the Ancestors	251	(19)
The Mountain Comes to the Monument	270	(8)
Avebury Reciprocates	278	(10)
A Relice Ripe for Manipulation	288	(12)
Loss of Innocence	300	(46)
Appendices
Radiocarbon dates for Stonehenge	323	(2)
Radiocarbon dates for selected henges and other sites	325	(12)
All radiocarbon dates in chronological order	337	(9)
Notes	346	(36)
Bibliography	382	(18)
Index	400