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Stonehenge remodelled

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Timothy Darvill ,
Peter Marshall ,
Mike Parker Pearson  and
Geoff Wainwright
Timothy Darvill
Affiliation:
Archaeology Group, School of Applied Sciences, Bournemouth University, Fern Barrow, Poole, Dorset BH12 5BB, UK (Email: tdarvill@bournemouth.ac.uk)
Peter Marshall
Affiliation:
English Heritage, 1 Waterhouse Square, 138–142 Holborn, London, EC1N 2ST, UK (Email: peter.marshall@english-heritage.org.uk)
Mike Parker Pearson
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 4ET, UK (Email: m.parker-pearson@sheffield.ac.uk)
Geoff Wainwright
Affiliation:
March Pres, Pontfaen, Fishguard, Pembrokeshire SA65 9TT, UK (Email: geoff@bluestone.eu.com)
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We are pleased to present the latest account of the sequence of burial and construction at the site of Stonehenge, deduced by its most recent excavators and anchored in time by the application of Bayesian radiocarbon modelling. Five prehistoric stages are proposed, of varied duration, and related by our authors to neighbouring monuments in the Stonehenge environs. While it may never be possible to produce a definitive chronology for this most complex of monuments, the comprehensive and integrated achievement owed to these researchers has brought us much closer to that goal. It is from this firm platform that Stonehenge can begin its new era of communication with the public at large.

Keywords

BritainNeolithicBeakerBronze AgemegalithicStonehengesarsenbluestonetrilithonradiocarbonBayesian modelling

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Research article
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Antiquity , Volume 86 , Issue 334 , December 2012 , pp. 1021 - 1040
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2012

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