How much do we know about Stonehenge? Less than we think. And what has Stonehenge got to do with the Ice Age? More than we might think. This blog is mostly devoted to the problems of where the Stonehenge bluestones came from, and how they got from their source areas to the monument. Now and then I will muse on related Stonehenge topics which have an Ice Age dimension...
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Wednesday, 16 May 2018
The old and the new at Stonehenge
Somebody posted this on another Stonehenge blog site, showing what good company I keep in the Stonehenge Visitor Centre. A batch of the new book is winging its way to Stonehenge as I speak -- so I suppose that for a little while (until old stocks are sold out) the visitors will be able to buy the cheaper old book alongside the more expensive and more up-to-date new one. You get what you pay for in this world.........
By the way, all credit to EH for selling my books, which might be considered by some to be subversive if not downright disruptive! Maybe the archaeologists do not speak to the shop staff, who may be rather more concerned with running their operation at a profit than with toeing the party line on interpretations.
I look forward to Wiltshire Archaeological & Natural History Society, at the Wiltshire Museum, Long Street, Devizes, stocking the new edition in the near future. They decided to no longer the previous version as it had become, quote, "out - of - date". Contact Director David Dawson if you'd like them to stock it.
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