Stonehenge Complete - Christopher Chippindale

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Résumé :
Stonehenge with its cold rocks is seen as the place of the dead, and another site over the horizon as the place of the living, built in wood, and complete with houses and paved ways. This title presents the story of Stonehenge.

Biographie:
Christopher Chippindale is Reader in Archaeology and curator for British collections at the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Sommaire:
1. To the Medieval Eye . 2. In the age of Queen Elizabeth . 3. During the English Renaissance . 4. Dr Aubrey and Dr Stukeley . 5. A Delusion of Druids . 6. The Sublime and the Romantic . 7. The Making of Ancient Wiltshire . 8. Of Age, Evolution and Astronomy . 9. Victorian Visitors . 10. The Proprietor and His Public . 11. 1900 and After . 12. The Destruction of Half Stonehenge . 13. Wessex to Mycenae, and Back . 14. The Moon Behind the Megaliths . 15. Alternative Visions . 16. A Future for Stonehenge . 17. Stonehenge: A Basis of Knowledge . Visiting Stonehenge