“…Prompted by the Human Henge project working within the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site, this volume provides an overview of work going on across Britain and the near Continent at many different scales. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Authenticity, Artifice and the Druidical Temple of Avebury / 6. Places That Matter. Megalithic Monuments from a Biographical Perspective / 7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Foreword v -- Preface ix -- Acknowledgements xi -- Archive xii -- Radiocarbon dates xii -- Summary 1 -- Part One: The Silbury Hill monumental mound 5 -- Location and setting 5 -- The present state of the site 7 -- History of previous investigations 8 -- Excavations in 1968-70: aims and progress 11 -- The tunnel 13 -- The top and upper part of the mound 20 -- The ditch 22 -- The nature and sequence of construction and the date of the mound 24 -- Soils 26 -- Pollen 29 -- Macroscopic plant remains 32 -- The insects 36 -- Mollusca 47 -- Vertebrates and small vertebrates 47 -- Plates 51 -- Part Two: The West Kennet palisade enclosures 53 -- Location and setting 53 -- The sequence of discovery and the aims of research 54 -- Palisade enclosure 1 57 -- The palisade ditches 57 -- Interior features 70 -- Palisade enclosure 2 76 -- The palisade ditch 76 -- Radial ditches 82 -- Interior features 83 -- Other ditches 86 -- A natural channel and valley history 86 -- Finds 90 -- Flint 90 -- Stone 93 -- Pottery 93 -- Animal bone 117 -- The wood charcoal 129 -- Charred plant remains 134 -- Part Three: A Later Neolithic complex in north Wiltshire 139 -- Dating and sequence 139 -- Environments and the settlement context 140 -- Silbury Hill: interpretations and comparisons 142 -- The West Kennet palisade enclosures: interpretations and comparisons 151 -- The social and the sacred: settlement and monumentality in the Avebury area and beyond 164 -- Appendix: The Marlborough Mound 169 -- Bibliography -- 171.…”