Solving Stonehenge: the new key to an ancient enigma
From the Publisher: A completely new and convincing solution to the key puzzles of Stonehenge. As Anthony Johnson reveals in this astonishing book, patient detective work and detailed computer analysis of clues hidden within this famous monument can be made to yield remarkable new insights into how...
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| Zusammenfassung: | From the Publisher: A completely new and convincing solution to the key puzzles of Stonehenge. As Anthony Johnson reveals in this astonishing book, patient detective work and detailed computer analysis of clues hidden within this famous monument can be made to yield remarkable new insights into how the earthwork and stone circle were conceived and laid out. The story begins with a reappraisal of over 250 years of fieldwork, excavation, and speculation, including John Wood's highly accurate but often overlooked survey of 1740. It is the most important record of Stonehenge ever made, and the only reliable plan of the monument before the fall of several major stones and their subsequent re-erection in the twentieth century. The prehistoric engineering skills involved in the construction of Stonehenge have long been recognized, but Johnson presents for the first time tangible evidence to show that locked within the symmetry of the stones are precise formulae that determined their numbers, spacing, and relationships. He explains how the Neolithic surveyors set out the fifty-six Aubrey Holes, four Station Stones, and the thirty stones in the Sarsen Circle; and the significance of the horseshoe arrangement of massive trilithons at the heart of the monument. The implications are far reaching, demonstrating that the people who designed Stonehenge in all its phases of construction, spanning over 1,000 years, employed simple and elegant geometric rules. Elaborate sightline theories, alignments, and astronomical computations are questioned, allowing the rationale behind Stonehenge and other prehistoric sites, some of which conformed to the same model, to be reassessed. 135 illustrations, 35 in color. |
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| Beschreibung: | 288 S. zahlr. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. 24 cm |
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| adam_text | Contents
Acknowledgments
6
Introduction: Seeking Explanations
7
1
Landscape
&
Opportunity
16
2
Myth, Legend
&
the Early Antiquarians
34
3
Fieldwork, Excavation
&
Speculation
51
4
The Early Earth
&
Timber Monument
94
5
The Stone Monument
122
6
Astronomy or Architecture?
175
7
The Prehistoric Surveyors
186
8
The Geometry oj the Early Monument
207
9
Tfce Geometry
&
Construction ojthe Stone Monument
225
: Reassessing Stonehenge
251
Appendices
268
Noies
270
Bibliography
278
Sources of Illustrations
284
JWex
285
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Contents
Acknowledgments
6
Introduction: Seeking Explanations
7
1
Landscape
&
Opportunity
16
2
Myth, Legend
&
'the Early Antiquarians
34
3
Fieldwork, Excavation
&
Speculation
51
4
The Early Earth
&
Timber Monument
94
5
The Stone Monument
122
6
Astronomy or Architecture?
175
7
The Prehistoric Surveyors
186
8
The Geometry oj the Early Monument
207
9
Tfce Geometry
&
Construction ojthe Stone Monument
225
: Reassessing Stonehenge
251
Appendices
268
Noies
270
Bibliography
278
Sources of Illustrations
284
JWex
285 |
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