Mike Parker Pearson

Stonehenge

A Brief History

Stonehenge is one of the world's most famous monuments. Who built it, how and why are questions that have endured for at least 900 years, but modern m...

The Archaeology of Death and Burial

The archaeology of death and burial is central to our attempts to understand vanished societies. Through the remains of funerary rituals we can learn ...

Stonehenge

Exploring the greatest Stone Age mystery

Our knowledge about Stonehenge has changed dramatically as a result of the Stonehenge Riverside Project (2003-2009), led by Mike Parker Pearson, and i...

Stonehenge

A Brief History

Stonehenge is one of the world's most famous monuments. Who built it, how and why are questions that have endured for at least 900 years, but modern m...

Stonehenge - A New Understanding

Solving the Mysteries of the Greatest Stone Age Monument

Stonehenge stands as an enduring link to our prehistoric ancestors, yet the secrets it has guarded for thousands of years have long eluded us. Until n...

Excavations at Cill Donnain

A Bronze Age Settlement and Iron Age Wheelhouse in South Uist

The SEARCH (Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides) project began in 1987 and covers the Scotland’s Outer Hebr...

Stonehenge for the Ancestors

Landscape and monuments. Part 1

This is the first of four volumes which present the results of The Stonehenge Riverside Project, a long-term fieldwork project at Stonehenge for the f...

Stonehenge for the Ancestors. Part 1

Landscape and Monuments

For many centuries, scholars and enthusiasts have been fascinated by Stonehenge, the world's most famous stone circle. In 2003 a team of archaeologist...

Stonehenge for the Ancestors

Landscape and monuments. Part 1

For many centuries, scholars and enthusiasts have been fascinated by Stonehenge, the world's most famous stone circle. In 2003 a team of archaeologist...

Cladh Hallan - Roundhouses and the dead in the Hebridean Bronze Age and Iron Age

Part I: Stratigraghy, Spatial Organisation and Chronology

This first of two volumes presents the archaeological evidence of a long sequence of settlement and funerary activity from the Beaker period (Early Br...

Stonehenge for the Ancestors. Part 2

Synthesis

For many centuries, scholars and enthusiasts have been fascinated by Stonehenge, the world's most famous stone circle. In 2003 a team of archaeologist...

Stonehenge for the Ancestors

Synthesis. Part 2

For many centuries, scholars and enthusiasts have been fascinated by Stonehenge, the world's most famous stone circle. In 2003 a team of archaeologist...

Cladh Hallan

Roundhouses and the Dead in the Hebridean Bronze Age and Iron Age, Part I: Stratigraghy, Spatial Organisation and Chronology

The first of two volumes presenting the evidence from excavations at the site of Cladh Hallan on South Uist in the Western Isles of Scotland....

Cladh Hallan: Roundhouses and the Dead in the Hebridean Bronze Age and Iron Age

Part 2: Material Culture, Subsistence, Skeletons and Synthesis

Full report on the enormous, excellently preserved, non-ceramic finds and environmental data from the Cladh Hallan settlement, Western Isles of Scotla...

Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides

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