TY - BOOK AU - Pryor,Francis TI - Stonehenge: the story of a sacred landscape SN - 9781681776408 AV - DA142 .P79 2018 U1 - 936.2319 23 PY - 2018/// CY - New York PB - Pegasus Books KW - Megalithic monuments KW - England KW - Wiltshire KW - Engineering KW - History, Ancient KW - fast KW - Antiquities KW - Stonehenge (England) KW - Wiltshire (England) KW - Stonehenge (England.) KW - Stonehenge N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue: Why Stonehenge matters -- Introduction: Religion, landscape and change -- After the ice (8000-4000 BC) -- The Stonehenge "ritual landscape" (4000-1500 BC) -- Before the great stones, part I: the formative years (from 3300 BC) -- Before the great stones, part II: stage 1 (from 3000 BC) -- The great stones arrive: stage 2 (from 2500 BC) -- The journey from life to death: stage 3 (from 2400 BC) -- Later developments: stages 4 and 5 (2100-1500 BC) -- After the stones -- Stonehenge today -- Appendix I. Timeline of significant events in British prehistory -- Appendix II. The ditch and the gradual establishment of Stonehenge N2 - "Pryor delivers a rigorous account of the nature and history of Stonehenge, but also places the enigmatic monument in a wider cultural context, bringing acute insight into how antiquarians, scholars, writers, artists, and even neopagans, have interpreted the mystery over the centuries."--Front jacket flap ER -