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Rodney Castleden

The Stonehenge People: An Exploration of Life in Neolithic Britain 4700-2000 BC 1st Edition

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First published in 1990. Of all the monuments left by the past, Stonehenge is the most evocative, the most memorable and the most mysterious. Whilst the monuments of other cultures have gradually surrendered their mysteries, Stonehenge alone seems to stimulate endless conjecture. Rodney Castleden's vivid presentation of the world of the megaliths answers many of the most baffling questions about Stonehenge. There are, he stresses, few absolute certainties, but from the vast body of evidence assembled during the last hundred years it is now possible to get much closer to the truth than ever before. Who built the monuments and for what purpose? How were the bluestones moved from the sacred mountains of the west to Salisbury Plain? Who were the people responsible for this amazing undertaking, and what did they think and believe?

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0415040655
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978-0415040655
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1st
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March 29, 1990
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B. T. Newberg

This has some fantastic details suggestive of the mundane lives of Neolithic people ...

Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2016

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This has some fantastic details suggestive of the mundane lives of Neolithic people in Britain, which is hard to find elsewhere and which earns the four stars. For that reason, it is great. On the other hand, it gives the impression that the people of those days were egalitarian and more or less violence-free, whereas if you read a scholar like Aubrey Burl you hear that even back then it was more like Game of Thrones (i.e. power politics all the way). Granted, there is so little evidence on this point that scholars must speculate heavily, so it's difficult to hold it against Castleden too much. However, at the very end of the book Castleden does go off the deep end and starts talking about zodiacal ages and wonders if the fact that the late Neolithic was the Age of Taurus (bull) had anything to do with why they were filled with the spirit of building. (Sigh...)

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A Wee Bit Out-dated

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2012

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Basically, this is a good book. The one I got was from 1987 ... and there's much more recent research and info available. Wished I had paid more attention to the edition date when I got it.

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Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2003

This work is among the best overviews of Neolithic life available. It's well written and covers a breadth of topics and ideas. Using the best evidence available, he breaks away from traditional approaches to reconstruct prehistoric society. Instead of stripping away modern elements to derive Neolithic life, Castleden builds the picture of that society from its basics. Opening with a portrayal of the Neolithic environment, he envisions how people would react to conditions then.
Environmental constraints and overuse of resources forced changes in lifestyle over the centuries. Neolithic peoples originally inhabited the fertile landscape as farmers. Their crops, however, quickly depleted the soil. Castleden cites a study in Denmark of Neolithic einkorn wheat reducing soil nutrients in only three seasons. Loss of fertility drove people to new locations or converted to a pastoral existence. In either case, the ommunities remained small and tightly integrated, with settlements only a few kilometres apart. The conditions also inhibited experimenting in farming or lifestyles. Maintenance of a secure life took precedence over trying the novel. The resulting conservatism led to a commonalty of thinking. We see evidence of that in the multitude of Neolithic religious sites. Stonehenge, Avebury,
Woodhenge, are distinct from each other in many ways, but their basic pattern is consistent.
Conservative rural life instilled fertility rituals dealing with crops and cattle breeding. Respect for surviving elders led to cults dealing with death. Castleden argues that it wasn't worship of the dead, but death itself that occupied their thoughts and practices. Burial rituals and cemetaries ultimately produced the great henges and stone monuments. Castleden acknowledges that the artefacts associated with the ditches, banks and the stone circles are the chief source of information we have in conceiving Neolithic life. One missing element, and he finds this highly significant, are structures for defence or other evidence of conflict. There are no large collections of arrowheads or spear blades found at the henge sites. From this he derives Neolithic society as essentially peaceful, with communities acting in relative harmony. Such an environment facilitated trade and information exchange. He traces the major likely trade routes across Southern Britain and across to Brittany in France. This view counters the long-held belief that these people were kept brutish and ignorant by being in a constant state of battle. He rightly argues that such a social milieu wouldn't have allowed the construction of such sites as Avebury or Stonehenge. He can't resist comparison with modern societies.
Castleden has enhanced a fluent presentation with numerous photographs, diagrams and maps. There is some presentation of contending views on various aspects of the topic. Perhaps the most surprising topic is the enigma of Stonehenge's source of the massive bluestones. Rejecting the "glacial erratics" position of Aubrey Burl, Castleden accepts the Presli Hills source. However, he proposes the most novel form of transport yet suggested.
Instead of the usual Presli to Severn Estuary route some propose, Castleden argues for an all-sea route around Land's End. He contends some form of trimaran would easily make the journey. Oxen-pulled sledges managed the final leg.
Although this book focuses on southern Britain of the era, the approach can be successfully applied elsewhere, even for other times. Castleden's easy prose and frank approach to the material makes this book useful and informative...

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Dolkar

Excellent book - but the price is unreasonable

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This is the best overview of Neolithic Britain I have found - and I've read as much as I can. Well organized content, fluid prose, thoughtful insights, good level of detail without too much technical detail of archeological sites, and well balanced in its conclusions. There is necessarily always some speculation when looking at ancient societies, but this book done an excellent job of not speculating where there is no evidence. I did have some minor disagreements with a few of his interpretations, but nothing serious. Overall, an excellent book and exactly what I was looking for.

But! Given that this is not a textbook, the price of $61 for a Kindle edition is outrageous. There is no justification for this. In balance, I am glad that I bought it, because there is not much good material available on this subject, but I am still quite annoyed by the price.

Lawrence Carney

Well researched account of a time that continues to fascinate

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 17, 2016

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Stonehenge is fascinating, of that there is no doubt. The book throws up some interesting takes on what life was like in this period.

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