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 Since its first and prize-winning edition, Stonehenge Complete has established itself as the classic account of this most famous of ancient places. For this new and expanded edition, Christopher Chippindale has revised and updated the story to include all the latest theories and discoveries. People have puzzled over Stonehenge for centuries, speculating and dreaming about it, drawing and painting it, trying to make sense of it. Here is the story of the one real Stonehenge, as well as the many unreal Stonehenges that archaeologists, tourists, mystics, astronomers, artists, poets and visionaries have made out of it. New studies in the past decade have revolutionized our knowledge of the complex sequence of structures that make its celebrated profile, in particular indicating that the monument is decidedly older than was once thought. Moreover, as Christopher Chippindale shows, we now know that the main alignment at Stonehenge was not in fact on midsummer sunrise but rather on midwinter sunset. Christopher Chippindale is Reader in Archaeology and curator for British collections at the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. "All you ever wanted to know about Stonehenge is catalogued in this humorously written, beautifully illustrated book"
--The Economist  Paperback 296 pages - 7" x 10" - (6/04)
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