Stonehenge and its Bluestone Quarries Seminar
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- Time:
- 17:00
- Date:
- 5 November 2015
- Venue:
- Lecture Theatre C Building 65 Faculty of Humanities Avenue Campus University of Southampton
For more information regarding this seminar, please email Dr. Marta Díaz-Guardamino at M.M.Diaz-Guardamino-Uribe@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Part of the Archaeology Seminar Series
Recent research has located quarries from which Stonehenge's famous Welsh bluestones were extracted in the Neolithic. While the question of just how these megaliths were transported over such a long distance to Stonehenge continues to intrigue, the more difficult question of 'why' requires a broader consideration of the significance of the stones and their context within Neolithic society.
Speaker information
Mike Parker Pearson , UCL. Professor of British Later Prehistory