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Illustrated with stunning photographs, this book shows how the known facts from such diverse fields as archaeology, anthropology, and primitive religion contribute to a better understanding of stone age monuments. Five years of exhaustive research have unveiled a simple, beautiful, and natural explanation for the creation of Stonehenge. It was not built as an astronomical observatory, nor is it the result of complicated mathematics. Instead, it is the result of humans working in harmony with natural phenomena to create a symbol of worship that lay at the heart of religion practiced in Britain and Ireland during the neolithic and bronze ages. Stonehenge is an in-depth look at the monument that is perennially fascinating to millions of people. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
In rock art, humanlike images appear widely throughout the ages. The artworks discussed in this book range from paintings, engravings or scratchings on cave walls and rock shelters, images pecked into rocky surfaces or upon standing stones, and major sacred sites, in which exists the possibility of recovering the meanings intended by the artists.
The globalization of social, cultural and economic relations is facilitated, and at the same time conditioned by developments in the information and communications technologies (ICT) and infrastructure. Human knowledge brought mankind from an oral to a literate culture, thanks to the invention of print media. The development of the electronic media in the 20th century paved the way for the information age, in which spatial and temporal constraints are lifted. This work explores the consequences of this revolution in human communications, which are multidimensional in character, affecting economical, political and social life on national, international and local levels. The text is part of a series of volumes arising from the intellectual work of ECCR members.
Takes a scientific approach to paranormal mysteries, taking readers on a series of case studies from spontaneous human combustion and hauntings to aliens and stigmata, employing forensic and investigative techniques to their analysis.
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It's contents are as curious as its price: subtitled Language of the Megaliths' this is a book for believers in the Earth Mother, with corn dollies, megalithic art and sexual symbolism in abundance. A sensible discussion of the origins of corn circles is followed by a complacent explanation' of Neolithic and Bronze Age religion in Britain. For the fringe archaeology' bookshelves.' Aubrey Burl .
This book includes papers from a session on 'Mother Earth' sites presented at the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the European Association of Archaeologists in Valetta, Malta, in September 2008. The papers discussed the various forms of evidence not only from definite 'Mother Earth' sites but from others for which an expression of a divine feminine principle, personified as belief in an Earth Mother or other female deity, may be inferred as possible or sometimes likely-especially where the work is based on new discoveries.
Less than 20 miles from its more famous neighbor, Stonehenge, Avebury is the largest and most complex prehistoric monument in Britain. This magnificent temple was built to the glory of the Neolithic Earth goddess more than 4,000 years ago. The main henged circle covers more than 28 acres and encloses two smaller rings of stone, while two stone-lined avenues wind away to further sites. Shows how every stone carries its own symbolic meaning, positioned so that at specific times of the year and the day, including sunset and sunrise, a natural phenomenon re-enacts a sacred rite and the unseen spirits of the stones come to life. Illustrated with maps, plans, and nearly 100 breathtaking photos.