Stonehenge Landscapes and Stone Circles
Archaeologists agonise about using the experience of people living in the present to help them think about people's lives in the past. Beneath the rhetoric, however, lies the simple fact that if you study the work of anthropologists, you are confronted with real individuals and communities. The...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of York
2002-05-01
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| Series: | Internet Archaeology |
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| Online Access: | http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue11/reviews/pitts.html |
| Summary: | Archaeologists agonise about using the experience of people living in the present to help them think about people's lives in the past. Beneath the rhetoric, however, lies the simple fact that if you study the work of anthropologists, you are confronted with real individuals and communities. The practise of learning from such communities can be particularly liberating if you mix with them yourself, as I learnt when writing a book about Stonehenge (Pitts 2001). |
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| ISSN: | 1363-5387 |