Materializing Stonehenge: The Stonehenge Riverside Project and new discoveries

Journal of Material Culture

Volumn 11, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 227-261

  Pearson, Mike Parker ^a   Pollard, Josh ^b   Richards, Colin ^c   Thomas, Julian ^c   Tilley, Christopher ^d   Welham, Kate ^e   Albarella, Umberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archaeology; Durrington Walls; Early Bronze Age; Materiality; Neolithic; Ritual; Solstice; Stonehenge

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY;

AVON RIVER; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; STONEHENGE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WILTSHIRE;

EID: 33646393527     PISSN: 13591835     EISSN: 14603586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1359183506063024     Document Type: Review

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