Riddles in Stone: Myths, Archaeology and the Ancient Britons
Who built Avebury and Stonehenge? Why and when were more than 600 stone circles, and thousands of barrows and cairns, erected in prehistoric Britain? What were they used for and what do they tell us about the beliefs and culture of their builders? Riddles in Stone is a history of the extraordinary variety of answers that have been given to these questions, by amateurs and professionals, archaeologists and astronomers, mystics and systems theorists.\ \ While modern excavation and...
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Illustrations Illustration Acknowledgements Preface\ 1 Monuments in the Landscape\ 2 Pagan Traditions\ 3 The Church and the Devil\ 4 In Medieval Literature\ 5 The Wonder of Britain\ 6 John Aubrey and Friends\ 7 William Stukeley\ 8 William Borlase\ 9 Romantic Druids and the Picturesque\ 10 Richard Colt Hoare and William Cunnington\ 11 The Barrow Diggers\ 12 Stone Age Circles and Stone Age Man\ 13 Diffusionism\ 14 Megalith Builders\ 15 Beaker Folk\ 16 Stonehenge and the Wessex Culture\ 17 The Sun and the Stars\ 18 Sir Norman Lockyer and his Followers\ 19 Stonehenge Decoded\ 20 Pi and Pythagorean Thoughts\ 21 Alfred Watkins and the Old Straight Track\ 22 John Michell and The View over Atlantis\ 23 Mysterious Britain\ 24 Earth Mysteries\ 25 Radiocarbon and other Revolutions\ 26 Sex and the Dead\ 27 Landscape, Culture, Society\ 28 Epilogue Gazetteer Notes Bibliography Index
