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School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2010
Gr 5-8 This title is not just an examination of recent breakthroughs at Stonehenge, but rather an essay on the process of archaeology and a hopeful reminder to future archaeologists that all the great sites are not yet dug or fully understood. In 2005, the Riverside Project, led by Mike Parker Pearson, made several significant discoveries that placed Stonehenge within a much larger Neolithic complex. Pearson began with a hypothesis, suggested by a retired archaeologist from Madagascar, that, as in Madagascar, the stone of Stonehenge wa...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2010
Aronson (Ain't Nothing but a Man, rev. 1/08) here profiles the Riverside Project's revolutionary new theories about Stonehenge. Eschewing long-established theories of the ancient monument as a center for religious rites, archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson and his associates embarked on a series of digs that has challenged our understanding not only of Stonehen...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2010
[other by = With; Retold by = With2Archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson and his associates embarked on a series of digs that have challenged our understandin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More