Seahenge: a quest for life and death in Bronze Age Britain / Francis Pryor
2001, 2nd Impression. London: HarperCollins. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #356663
ISBN: 0007101910
Physical description: xxviii, 337 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Contents: Prologue: John Lorimer's Discovery -- 1. Setting the Scene -- 2. The Hunt is On -- 3. A Trans-Atlantic Commuter -- 4. Direction and Disorientation -- 5. Gardens of Creation -- 6. Ritual Landscapes -- 7. Etton and the Origins of Ancestral Authority -- 8. Rites of Passage in a Private World -- 9. The Living Dead: Ancestral Spirits in the Landscape -- 10. The Wetland Revolution -- 11. The Daily Round -- 12. Between the Tides -- 13. The World Turned Upside Down -- 14. The Passage of Arms -- 15. Retrospect and Prospect. Subjects: Pryor, Francis. Antiquities, Prehistoric England. Neolithic period England.
Bronze age England.
Religion, Prehistoric England. Water-saturated sites (Archaeology) England. Excavations (Archaeology) England.
Price: €21.95