Read Stonehenge a New Understanding Online
Authors: Mike Parker Pearson
Tags: #Social Science, #Archaeology
Palisade,
see
Stonehenge Palisade
passage tombs,
276n
Passmore, A. D.,
67
Peak District,
213
Pendragon, Uther,
312
perfect circles,
322
periglacial features,
242
,
243
,
245
,
249
,
310
Peter’s Mound,
110
Peterson, Rick,
296
Piggott, Stuart,
38
,
40
,
41
,
42
,
47
,
182
,
185
,
299
,
349
pigs,
18
,
25
,
102
,
103
,
108
,
119
,
126
,
158
,
161
,
197
,
230
,
305
Pike, Alistair,
160
Pipes, Gordon,
268
Pitts, Mike,
40
,
42
,
148
,
167
,
203
,
248
,
252
,
258
and Boles Barrow,
272
plant remains
see
Durrington Walls: plant remains; Neolithic period: plant remains
Pollard, Josh,
3
,
13
,
62
,
182
,
198
,
286
,
334
,
335
Larkhill excavation by,
110
Stonehenge palisade excavation by,
235
at West Kennet excavation,
234
pollen analysis,
163
portal dolmens,
276
,
287
,
289
,
298
,
299
,
325
,
328
,
331
,
334
Parton Down,
39
Posidonius,
179
pottery
Grooved Ware,
see main entry
in Ireland,
20
Iron Age,
101
Peterborough Ware,
see main entry
in Scotland,
20
simple names given to types of,
54
spiral-decorated,
115
Preseli hills,
7
,
264
,
275
,
278
,
283
,
325
,
327
absence of Late Neolithic monuments in or near,
327
acidic soils of,
276
Bedd Arthur in,
277
Bedd yr Afanc in,
276
Carn Breseb in,
287
Carn Ddafad-las in,
287
Castell Mawr in,
287
Foel Trigarn in,
276
Gors Fawr in,
277
holy wells in,
281
map showing location of,
24
Meini Gwyr in,
277
possible ancestral significance of,
328
possible Salisbury Plain link with,
271
prehistoric houses in,
285
prehistoric quarry found in,
286
rich in Neolithic monuments,
276
stone circles in,
277
stone tools from,
271
see also
bluestones
Preshute,
296
Priddy Circles,
323
Pytheas of Marseilles,
353
Q and R Holes,
43
,
166
,
183
,
193
,
223
,
253
,
260
,
303
,
307
,
310
,
343
radiocarbon dating
new Stonehenge chronology based on,
307
;
see also
Stonehenge’s new sequence
of Stonehenge,
23
,
40
,
42
,
45
,
108
,
128
,
135
,
169
,
184
,
185
,
200
,
230
,
247
,
303
,
307
,
332
Ramilisonina,
6
,
7
,
9
,
205
,
219
,
268
,
273
,
293
Rawlins, Henry,
55
Reynolds, Peter,
74
rhyolite,
262
,
263
,
265
,
283
,
284
,
286
St David’s (Group VIII) source of,
289
Richards, Colin,
3
,
56
,
62
,
74
,
86
,
90
,
246
,
287
,
289
bluestone chippings’ distribution plotted by,
228
at Coneybury excavation,
25
and Grooved Ware,
53
open-air cremation witnessed by,
190
and stones’ shaping and dressing,
248
Tor Stone excavation by,
151
Richards, Julian,
25
,
133
,
140
,
143
,
167
,
189
,
226
,
227
disagreement of, over Aubrey Hole,
193n
dolerite found by,
229
Richards, Mike,
211
Rispebjerg complex,
323
River Avon,
1
,
17
,
57
,
59
,
216
,
229
,
246
,
265
,
343
,
347
changing course of,
156
role of, within Stonehenge landscape,
156
Site of Special Scientific Interest,
217
stone found in,
151
see also
Avon valley
see also
causewayed enclosures
Robinson, David (“California Dave”),
94
,
95
,
160
,
238
rock art,
276
Roman period,
69
,
150
,
157
,
176
,
237
,
254
,
307
,
311
,
312
burials during,
150
Caesar on,
177
Diodorus Siculus on,
353
and Greater Cursus,
140
Late, buildings of,
150
and phallus symbolism,
69
pit circle reused as amphitheater during,
318
Tacitus on,
179
Ross Island,
125
round barrows,
152
,
194
,
196
,
233
,
298
,
312
,
346
,
347
,
352
Royal Archaeological Institute,
62
Russell, Miles,
171
Sahlins, Marshall,
20
Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum,
38
,
90
,
108
,
132
,
150
,
184
,
272
Salisbury Plain
later habitation of,
326
possible Preseli link with,
271
small, mobile groups inhabit,
135
see also
Stonehenge
from Bulford,
152