Patricia Southern The Story of Stonehenge review, recensie en informatie boek over het bijzondere Engelse prehistorische bouwwerk. Bij Amberley Publishing is het boek over Stonehenge, geschreven door de Britse historicus Patricia Southern. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.
Patricia Southern The Story of Stonehenge review en recensie
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The Story of Stonehenge
- Auteur: Patricia Southern (Engeland)
- Soort boek: Engelse geschiedenis, prehistorie
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Amberley Publishing
- Verschijnt: 15 juli 2025
- Omvang: 160 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: £ 16,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van het boek over Stonehenge van Patricia Southern
A comprehensive illustrated history of the prehistoric megalithic structure at Stonehenge and those who built it.
Stonehenge is the best known but least understood prehistoric monument in the British Isles. Other stone circles are impressive and atmospheric, but none approach the sophistication of Stonehenge. The stones visible today represent the final phase of a monument that was begun about 5,000 years ago, and altered several times during the next fifteen centuries, before it was finally abandoned. The site may have been a sacred place for at least 10,000 years, reaching back to about 8,000 BC, when people of the Mesolithic era began to set up pine totem poles, the holes for which were found in excavations close to the circle.
Patricia Southern’s new history considers the conflicting theories around how it was built with such precision and why. Did the stones arrive at Stonehenge by humans, or were they transported there by glaciers long before the first monument was built? Was it a religious centre for unknown rites and ceremonies? Did it function as an observatory for the sun and the moon, a sort of stone calendar to mark the seasons and the appropriate festivals? One thing it never was, a Druid temple. It was built, used, and abandoned long before the ancient Druids came on the scene, but their modern counterparts have claimed it, so in that sense it is still a temple, just as it can be for any other visitors to this important World Heritage Site. Highly illustrated with nearly 100 colour photographs and drawings.
Patricia Southern is an acknowledged expert on the history of ancient Rome. While working full time as a librarian she studied for a BA degree in Ancient History with the external department of the University of London, and for an MPhil in Roman Frontier Studies at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where she was Librarian of the Archaeology Department for many years. She has written many books on Roman history and contributed numerous articles on Roman history to the BBC History website and the academic Roman studies journal Britannia.
