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Article: Storms over Stonehenge: Rosemary Hill has written an incisive, witty account of Stonehenge's place in the landscape of ideas.(Book review)
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- December 1, 2008
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Stonehenge
ROSEMARY HILL
PROFILE BOOKS, 15.99 [pounds sterling]
ISBN 139781861978653
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No monument in the world, with the exception of the Great Pyramid and the Temple of Jerusalem, has been meditated upon as intensively or imaginatively as Stonehenge. The mystery of the great stones standing on the plain demands an explanation, with results ranging from the extravagantly exotic to the archaeologically prudent. Rosemary Hill's task in this book has been to take an overview of the landscape of ideas in which Stonehenge has been situated over the centuries, and also to give an account of the ways in which ...