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Avebury (Duckworth Archaeological Histories S.) Avebury remains one of the most spectacular and enigmatic prehistoric monuments in Europe. Constructed in several stages during the course of the third millennium BC, the massive earthwork enclosure and stone settings have had a complex history; one which has included later episodes of avoidance, neglect and deliberate destruction, through to more recent antiquarian and archaeological "re-discovery", investigation and preservation. Incorporating evidence from recent research and guided by current themes within interpretative archaeology, this book provides an authoritative and comprehensive account of the site. Since its late Neolithic beginnings, Avebury has been the subject of a host of interpretations and understandings, each as valid for the community making it as any "original" imperative, and each of which has a crucial place in the developing life-history of the site, in effect making Avebury what it is today. This book explores these changing understandings and interpretations, charting the life of this unique monument from a small clearing in the forest to a designated World Heritage Site.

Avebury: Biography of a Landscape This book concerns itself with the World heritage site of the Avebury stone circle and its surrounding landscape. One of the many wonderful things about the book is the collaboration between the two authors. The combination of Prehistorian, Pollard, and Medievalist, Reynolds, allows the contents of this book spread itself over a period of some 12000 years, from the earliest mesolithic to the late medieval period. This spread allows the book to escape the usual dry archaeological commentary of other similar texts. The authors synopsis also gives us some new insights into how people may have thought of, moved through and used the Avebury landscape over time. The illustrations, as well as the text and the colour plates, are first class.

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