Surveys current archaeological and historical findings on the awesome stone circles and earthworks of Avebury, England, to reconstruct the daily life of the primitive people who erected the massive monuments nearly five thousand years ago

Prehistoric Avebury

History

AUBREY BURL

Ancient Civilizations

Yale University Press

The spectacular stone circles of western Europe, some nearly 6000 years old, have intrigued viewers through the ages. This beautiful book about these megalithic rings explores their ancestry, methods of construction, and eventual desertion. A substantially revised version of Aubrey Burl’s highly praised work The Stone Circles of the British Isles, it offers new insights into the purpose of stone circles. It also provides a new interpretation of Stonehenge and of Callanish in Scotland, the first overview of the cromlechs in Brittany, a discussion of the problems of archaeoastronomy as related to stone circles, a greatly expanded Gazetteer, and an up-to-date list of radiocarbon dates and recent excavations.

The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany

Religion & Spirituality

This magnificent book is a fascinating account of the prehistoric stone circles at Avebury, which not only date from an earlier era but are also larger than the more famous sarsen stone circle of Stonehenge. Written by a leading archaeologist, the book considers every aspect of Avebury's history and construction and discusses the probable purpose of these massive structures, in the process creating a vivid and moving picture of their creators-a primitive people whose lives were brief, savage, and fearful.

Prehistoric Avebury, Second Edition

Megalithic Brittany: A Guide to Over 350 Ancient Sites and Monuments, with 145 Illustrations by Aubrey Burl

Megalithic Brittany: A Guide to Over 350 Ancient Sites and Monuments, with 145 Illustrations

THAMES HUDSON LTD

Surveying the times in which the extraordinarily popular poet Catullus thrived—ca. 84–54 B.C., the golden days of the Roman Republic—Aubrey Burl reconstructs the life of a man who epitomized an era. Catullus demonstrated a genius for the epigram, as well as the lyric, for heartfelt love songs and moving elegies. Nor did Catullus leave himself out of his pungent, spare, ironic, and superbly crafted verses, reflecting not only his personal temperament but also his perceived values, and often disparages, in a Rome increasingly beset by civil war, moral laxity, and social unrest. This book takes Catullus from his native Verona, where he grew up in wealth and influence, to Rome and to fame. A well-liked, sociable man, he entertained his friends in the lavish fashion of his day while he amused and shocked his public with urbane poetic trifles. He intrigued his public with love poems addressed to Lesbia—in reality, a married woman named Clodia—with whom he had a tempestuous affair. Though brilliant by any standard, these intimate lyrics would not save Catullus from centuries of obscurity, although they would eventually emerge in a lone third generation copy of a book in the fourteenth century, in his hometown of Verona.

Catullus: A Poet in the Rome of Julius Caesar

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Basic Books

Britain's leading expert on stone circles brings new insights to this accessible exploration if the greatest stone circle of them all.

A Brief History of Stonehenge: One of the Most Famous Ancient Monuments in Britain

Europe

Running Press

This books is a must for people wanting a more in depth work on the stone circles of Britain. It is loaded with pictures, both colour and b&amp;w, maps, how to locate each circle, a overview of the stone placement and a deleted account of the history, excavations and facts concerning each. It covers the top 50 rings of Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales, grouping them in sections for areas.

Rings of Stone: The Prehistoric Stone Circles of Britain and Ireland

Ticknor & Fields

That Great Pyrate: Bartholomew Roberts and His Crew, 1718-1723

Alun Books

This title offers authoritatively researched, new insights into Stonehenge's past. Britain's leading expert on stone circles turns his attention to the greatest example of them all - Stonehenge. Drawing on forty years of research and fieldwork, archaeologist Aubrey Burl offers a seminal new view of the changing cults and evolving architecture of Stonehenge. Every aspect of Stonehenge is re-considered in this groundbreaking volume. Burl explains for the first time how the outlying Heel Stone long predates Stonehenge itself, serving as a trackway marker in the prehistoric Harroway. He uncovers new evidence that the Welsh bluestones were brought to Stonehenge by glaciation rather than by man. And he reveals just how far the design of Stonehenge was influenced by Breton styles and by Breton cults of the dead. Meticulously researched, the book sets the record straight on the matter of Stonehenge's astronomical alignments. Although the existence of a sightline to the midsummer sunrise is well known, the alignment and the viewingposition are critically different from popular belief. And until now the existence of an earlier alignment to the moon and a later one to the midwinter sunset has been little appreciated. One almost unexplained puzzle remains. The site of Stonehenge lies at the heart of a vast six-mile wide graveyard. All around it are groups of earthen long barrows, the burial places of Neolithic people, many of whom died more than a thousand years before Stonehenge. The mystery is that before Stonehenge there was a vacuum two miles across inside that cemetery. Nothing was inside. Why? Burl points to an answer.

Stonehenge

Constable

Black Barty Bartholomew Roberts and His Pirate Crew 1718-1723 The Real Pirate of the Caribbean

Clipper

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