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Solving Stonehenge: Anthony Johnson
Feb 19, 2010, 10:38
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Solving Stonehenge: The New Key to an Ancient Enigma
Published by THAMES & HUDSON. ISBN 978-0-500-05155-9
Book details here -
http://www.solvingstonehenge.co.uk/second_page.html
Related feature here - http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/5016097.A_midwinter_mystery/
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moss
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Edited Apr 01, 2010, 18:21
Conceiving God: the Cognitive Origin......
Apr 01, 2010, 16:29
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Conceiving God: the Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion
By David Lewis-Williams
April fool's day is over, so this is not about what happened before god came on the scene but a book by Lewis- Williams, author of 'The Mind in the Cave' and 'Inside the Neolithic Mind'. Reviewed by that 'godless' philosophical person - A.C.Grayling in the Newstatesman.........
http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2010/04/religion-religious-lewis
ramblings..
The two comments are funny on the article, Grayling used to do an analysis of a particular aspect of thinking on the back page of the Guardian every saturday some years back, miss him ;)..
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Littlestone
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The Landscape of the Megaliths: Mark Gillings et a
Apr 02, 2010, 10:27
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"Recently published by Oxbow Books is "The Landscape of the Megaliths" by Mark Gillings, Joshua Pollard, David Wheatley & Rick Peterson.
"This covers in detail the results of the excavations that were carried out at Avebury during the period 1997-2003. It also includes much reappraisal of long held ideas about the monuments and must be regarded as essential reading for all pursuing the most current information."*
* Info courtesy of Avebury a present from the past http://www.avebury-web.co.uk/
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moss
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The Story of Silbury Hill
May 06, 2010, 16:06
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Not quite out yet but you can pre-order..... to quote from the description;
"Written by two experts with unrivalled information and knowledge of Silbury Hill, and combining scholarly research and readable narrative, this book sets out the archaeological story of Silbury: from an early recognition of its importance to antiquarian and archaeological investigations of the hill."
Sir David Attenborough (Foreword), Jim Leary (Author), David Field (Author)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Story-Silbury-Hill-Jim-Leary/dp/1848020465
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goffik
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Re: The Story of Silbury Hill
May 06, 2010, 16:58
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That looks like a must-have!
Cheers, Moss - I look forward to that one.
G x
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tjj
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Re: The Story of Silbury Hill
May 06, 2010, 17:55
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moss wrote: Not quite out yet but you can pre-order..... to quote from the description;
"Written by two experts with unrivalled information and knowledge of Silbury Hill, and combining scholarly research and readable narrative, this book sets out the archaeological story of Silbury: from an early recognition of its importance to antiquarian and archaeological investigations of the hill."
Sir David Attenborough (Foreword), Jim Leary (Author), David Field (Author)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Story-Silbury-Hill-Jim-Leary/dp/1848020465
This is the book Jim Leary mentioned in his talk earlier in the year, he said it will be released in October of this year. I agree it is a 'must have' (nice cover too).
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faerygirl
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Re: Books of possible interest
May 06, 2010, 18:08
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Currently reading Thor Heyerdahls "The Maldive Mystery" which is an amazing book! I had no idea that these little islands had so much ancient heritage. I guess this stuff is everywhere, you just have to know where to look :)
If you havn't heard of Thor, he is well worth a read. Has done some amazing stuff over the years
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl
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faerygirl
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69 Things to do with a Dead Princess- Stuart Home
Jun 03, 2010, 19:01
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Has anyone ever read "69 things to do with a dead Princess" by Stuwart Home? I read it about 10years ago and was thinking about it the other day as it has a very odd story line with lots of references to the stone circles near Aberdeen. Now, as a warning, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone easily offended as its about 40% crazy and indepth literary comment, 30% stone circles and scottish landmarks and 30% graphic sex, but it does directly reference Mr Cope and The Modern Antiquarian (not something that I noticed on my first read but based on my newfound favourite website, I noticed it this time round!)
Its a very odd book and pretty hard to read on the bus as the cover is a mosaic of naked women, but I was wondering if anyone had even ever heard of it? It mentions Aubrey Burl, The stone circle; Gordons Early History as well as TMA and has quite an impressive alphabetical list of the SC's in the Aberdeen area.
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Littlestone
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Europe's Lost World: Vincent Gaffney et al
Jun 12, 2010, 19:05
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Europe's Lost World: the rediscovery of Doggerland by Vincent Gaffney, Simon Fitch and David Smith.
"This new book concludes a remarkable programme of archaeological research to discover Doggerland, the enigmatic country which once linked the Yorkshire coast with continental Europe."
CBA Research Report 160. ISBN 978 1 90277177 9. 232pp, 125 full colour illustrations.
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Littlestone
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Edited Jun 13, 2010, 18:37
Prehistoric Coastal Communities: Martin Bell
Jun 13, 2010, 18:14
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Prehistoric Coastal Communities: the Mesolithic in Western Britain by Martin Bell.
"This volume provides ground-breaking new evidence about prehistoric Britain - focusing on the little studied communities of south-west England and Wales."
CBA Research Report 149. ISBN 978 1 902771 64 8. 380pp, 152 illustrations and a CD.
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