Add this copy of The Stone Circles of the British Isles to cart. $4.52, fair condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1979 by Yale University Press.
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Fair. Acceptable-This is a significantly damaged book. It should be considered a reading copy only. Please order this book only if you are interested in the content and not the condition. May be ex-library. PAPERBACK Standard-sized.
Add this copy of The Stone Circles of the British Isles to cart. $5.17, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1979 by Yale University Press.
Add this copy of The Stone Circles of the British Isles to cart. $5.17, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1979 by Yale University Press.
Add this copy of The Stone Circles of the British Isles to cart. $23.00, good condition, Sold by Books From California rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Simi Valley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Yale Univ Pr.
Add this copy of The Stone Circles of the British Isles to cart. $31.00, very good condition, Sold by Brian Bauld (B-Line Books) rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Amherst, NS, CANADA, published 1979 by Yale University Press.
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Very Good+ 0300023987. Tight clean book in bright card covers; unmarked but for brief inscription to front endpaper. 36 plates and 50 text figures.; 1.25 x 9.75 x 7.75 Inches; 410 pages.
Add this copy of The Stone Circles of the British Isles to cart. $37.50, fair condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1979 by Yale University Press.
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Fair. The format is approximately 7.5 inches by 9.75 inches. xxi, [1], 410 pages. A Note on Dating Conventions. Maps. Plates. Tables. Text Figures. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Decorative front cover. The book has some moisture staining as well as general wear around the edges. Some page spotting and discoloration. This book is about the first comprehensive and serious account of an important group of prehistoric moments in the stone Circles of The British Isles. Aubrey Burl, author provides a hypothetical chronological framework for the circle, examining in particular their possible astronomical function. Special attention is paid to Stonehenge and Avebury, the two best known and most spectacular rings. Synthesizing pertinent archaeological data, the author details the origins, structural features, and significance of Britain's ancient megalithic monuments. Harry Aubrey Woodruff Burl FSA HonFSA Scot (24 September 1926 – 8 April 2020) was a British archaeologist best known for his studies into megalithic monuments and the nature of prehistoric rituals associated with them. Before retirement he was Principal Lecturer in Archaeology, Hull College, East Riding of Yorkshire. Burl received a volume edited in his honor. He was called by The New York Times, "the leading authority on British stone circles". Burl's work, while considering the astronomical roles of many megalithic monuments, was cautious of embracing the more tenuous claims of archaeoastronomy. In Prehistoric Avebury Burl proposed that Circles and Henge monuments, far from being astronomical observatories for a class of "astronomer priests" were more likely used for ritualistic practices, connected with death and fertility rites, and ancestor worship, similar to practices observed in other agricultural cultures (in particular the rituals of Native North American Tribes such as the Algonquin and the Pawnee). Rituals would have been performed at key times of the year, such as the Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice, to ensure a successful harvest from the land. His approach led him to question what he saw as the over-romanticized view that Stonehenge was built from bluestones hauled by hand from the Preseli Hills in south west Wales to Salisbury Plain. In his view, the stones had been left close to the site by earlier glaciers and then exploited by the monument's builders. Others have argued that the bluestones have been traced to only the Preseli Hills through their chemical signature and that they could not have come from elsewhere. Additionally, it has been claimed that there was no known glacier with a course linking the hills with Salisbury Plain or a glacier from anywhere that reached far enough south. On the other hand, research by earth scientists shows that glacier ice reached the Scilly Isles on at least one occasion, and that ice which passed through Pembrokeshire did cross the coasts of Somerset and Devon.
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