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Stonehenge from without

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

C. C. Wrigley
C. C. Wrigley*
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37 Highdown Road, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1QE
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Abstract

Mr Wrigley (Reader Emeritus in History, University of Sussex) presents himself as a witness to British prehistory ‘from without’, because he is a ‘historian ofsorts’ rather than archaeologist. Surprised to see prehistorians turning to ethnography and contemporary social theory, more than the history of intervening centuries, he offers here a different perspective.

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Antiquity , Volume 63 , Issue 241 , December 1989 , pp. 746 - 752
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1989

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