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Stonehenge: A New Understanding

by John Christie

361 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); illustrated; catalogue #04-0793; ISBN 1-4120-2965-1; US$41.50, C$47.75, EUR34.00, £24.00

Stonehenge! Have you ever wondered why and how that mysterious structure was built? This informative book answers all the questions you are ever likely to ask.

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About the Book

This chronological, highly controversial, liberally illustrated, work of detection, is a tour de force, written to satisfy those among the general readership, whose enquiring minds have been less than satisfied with the many explanations provided so far. The revelation of new discoveries and different interpretations, among its pages, are also intended to awaken those in the world of archaeology to different ways of viewing the various phases of development embodied in that ancient place. At the same time, the author has tried to provide those in that specific field with sufficient information, to enable them to follow his groundbreaking footsteps. The accidental timing of this book’s completion perfectly coincides with a general re-awakening of interest, and English Heritage’s radical plans to provide Stonehenge with a new visitors’ centre, together with their intention to improve the way the pilgrim approaches this greatly revered monument. Through his efforts to expound alternative theories, the author reveals many facts unknown to others, even those closely associated with Stonehenge, that help to explain this ancient monument’s largely misunderstood history. In so doing, those discoveries lend verification to his theories. Although it is not possible to know the thought processes of such a distant people, he also reveals a little of the astonishing wisdom possessed by the people who erected the stones, and prior to that event, operated that site for nearly a thousand years as a cathedral to their Sun and Moon worship.

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About the Author

Born in 1934, the adopted son of a Scottish doctor practicing in London, he was privately educated. Blessed with an appalling memory he was an academic failure. Notwithstanding that drawback, success in business eventually allowed him to pursue his interests in aviation and archaeology. Having built and learnt to fly his own aeroplane, from which he was able see and photograph masses of Neolithic and Bronze Age sites of occupation, the archaeologist in him, never far away, was rekindled. Eventually, prevented from further flight through poor health, he was driven toward his other main interest; trying to make sense of the strange, and sometimes, unbelievable interpretations regarding Stonehenge archaeologists and astronomers have fed us over the last 50 years. That pursuit has occupied the latter half of his life and led to the exploration and re-evaluation of several other less well-known sites.

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