STONEHENGE: SIGHTING THE SUN (HISTORIC ENGLAND/ LUP) (HB)

This well illustrated book provides both an introduction to Stonehenge and its landscape and an introduction to archaeoastronomy - the study of how ancient peoples understood phenomena in the sky, and what role the sky played in their cultures. Suitable both for specialists and for the general reader, it shows how archaeoastronomy is critical to explaining the relationship of Stonehenge and nearby monuments to the heavens. It discusses how interpreting archaeoastronomical evidence has often proved highly controversial in the past and makes clear which ideas about Stonehenge are generally accepted and which are not, with clear graphics to explain complicated concepts.