Stonehenge, the megalithic monument in southern England that dates in its Bronze Age phase to 2000BC, attracts more than a million tourists each year. The region includes the remains of sizeable wooden buildings, and this work shows that it was indeed its own city, the metropolitan centre of a powerful kingdom heretofore unsuspected. That city is reconstructed here from the archaeological evidence - royal palace, banquet hall and tomb, among other buildings. In passing, the text demolishes the popular theory that Stonehenge served as a prehistoric astronomical observatory. It rather advances a political theory grounded in cultural continuities that carry forward into the early Iron Age, best documented in ancient Ireland.
- ISBN10 0786414693
- ISBN13 9780786414697
- Publish Date 1 August 2003
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 February 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176
- Language English