Pearson, Mike Parker;
(2021)
Archaeology and legend: investigating Stonehenge.
Archaeology International
, 24
(1)
pp. 144-164.
10.14324/111.444.ai.2021.09.
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Abstract
Stonehenge is one of the world’s most famous prehistoric monuments, built 4,500–5,000 years ago during the Neolithic in a time long before written history. The recent dramatic discovery of a dismantled stone circle near the sources of some of Stonehenge’s stones in southwest Wales raises the fascinating possibility that an ancient story about Stonehenge’s origin, written down 900 years ago and subsequently dismissed as pure invention, might contain a grain of truth. This article explores the pros and cons of comparing the legend with the archaeological evidence.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Archaeology and legend: investigating Stonehenge |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.444.ai.2021.09 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ai.2021.09 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2021, Mike Parker Pearson. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC-BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | Social Sciences, Archaeology, Neolithic, Stonehenge, stone circles, Britain, legend |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10187084 |
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