Pre-Owned Standing Stones Stonehenge Carnac and the World of Megaliths (New Horizons) /anglais (Paperback) 0500300909 9780500300909

9780500300909. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Paperback. Pages: 176. 176 p. New Horizons . Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Intended for professional and scholarly audience. Intended for college/higher education audience. Who built the megaliths, those massive stone structures ranging from tombs to standing stones that date back to over 4000 BC? Why were they built? How were the enormous stones transported and erected? Were these strange, sacred stones used as temples or tombs, sculptures or houses? Covering the best-known sites - Avebury and Stonehenge in England, Carnac in France and Knowth in Ireland - and also less famous examples in Scandinavia, Malta, Egypt and Spain, this book considers the special significance - architectural, scientific, religious and cultural - of these enigmatic Neolithic stone structures.