Essay Review: Sun,Moon,Stars,and Stonehenge: Stonehenge: Neolithic Man and the Cosmos

Bradley Richard John C. Barrett Richard Bradley Green Martin , Landscape, monuments and society (Cambridge, 1991), 58. The remark refers specifically to the Dorset cursus.

Darvill Timothy , ‘Ever increasing circles: The sacred geographies of Stonehenge and its landscape’, in Barry Cunliffe and Colin Renfrew, Science and Stonehenge (Oxford, 1997), 167–202. But see Joshua Pollard and Clive Ruggles, ‘Shifting perceptions: Spatial order, cosmology, and patterns of deposition at Stonehenge’, forthcoming.

For a commentary see Ruggles Clive , ‘Ritual astronomy in the Neolithic and Bronze Age British Isles: Patterns of continuity and change’, in Alex Gibson Derek Simpson (eds), Prehistoric ritual and religion (Stroud, 1998), 203–8. See also Ruggles Clive , Astronomy in prehistoric Britain and Ireland (New Haven and London, 1999), chaps. 1 and 8.

Cf. Hawkes Jacquetta , Man and the sun (London, 1962), 168.

Aveni Anthony F. , Stairways to the stars: Skywatching in three great ancient cultures (New York, 1997), 91, 85.

Cf. Schaefer Bradley E. , ‘Atmospheric extinction effects on stellar alignments’, Archaeoastronomy, no. 10 (1986), S32–42.

Cooke J. A. Few R. W. Morgan J. G. Ruggles C. L. N. , ‘Indicated declinations at the Callanish megalithic sites’, Journal for the history of astronomy, viii (1977), 113–33, p. 130.

Cf. Ruggles C. L. N. , ‘The Borana calendar: Some observations’, Archaeoastronomy, no. 11 (1987), S35–53.

Ruggles , op. cit. (ref. 3, 1999), 77.

Ibid. 126.

Cf. Michael Hoskin Elizabeth Allan Gralewski Renate , ‘Studies in Iberian archaeoastronomy: (3) Customs and motives in Andalucía’, Archaeoastronomy, no. 20 (1995), S41–48.

Burl Aubrey , The Stonehenge people (London 1987), 28.

For a critique see Burl Aubrey , Prehistoric astronomy and ritual (Princes Risborough, 1997), 14–15. Excavation has now shown that the central circle predated the rows (obscuring the sightlines before they were built) and was erected approximately a millennium before their supposed date of use (Ruggles, op. cit. (ref. 3, 1999), 247, n. 120).

Castleden Rodney , The making of Stonehenge (London, 1993); Aubrey Burl, ‘Stonehenge: Slaughter, sacrifice and sunshine’, Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine, lxxxvii (1994), 85–95.

Cleal R. M. J. Walker K. E. Montague R. , Stonehenge in its landscape: Twentieth century excavations (London, 1995).

Thom A. S. Ker J. M. D. Burrows T. R. , ‘The Bush Barrow gold lozenge: Is it a solar and lunar calendar for Stonehenge?’, Antiquity, lxii (1988), 492–502; Thom A. S. , ‘The Bush Barrow gold lozenge: A solar and lunar calendar for Stonehenge?’, in Ruggles C. L. N. (ed.), Archaeoastronomy in the 1990s (Loughborough, 1993), 317–23.