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082			_a936.231 _bSTO
100			_aStover, Leon
245		0	_aStonehenge City
260			_bMcFarland _c2009
300			_a209 pages
500			_aStonehenge dates its Bronze Age phase to 2000 B.C. (but with a history stretching back yet another thousand years to Neolithic times). It attracts more than a million tourists a year, but is more than an array of great standing stones. Stonehenge was indeed its own city, the metropolitan center of a powerful kingdom heretofore unsuspected. That city is reconstructed by the author from the archaeological evidence--royal palace, banquet hall and tomb, among other buildings. Here (apart from Homer) begins European literature, derived from oral traditions. The entire book is richly illustrated.
650			_aHistory
942			_cENGLISH
999			_c575365 _d575365