Stonehenge: a brief history

REVIEW BY ROB IXER After a slight temporal dip, we are back riding up on to a crest of the sine curve called ‘popular Stonehenge book publication’ (sadly, for a sun-orientated temple, this appears out of phase with the solar activity cycle). Last year’s excellent How to Build Stonehenge by Mike Pitts has now been joined by this, the latest in a number of popular Stonehenge books written by Mike Parker Pearson. Both authors have the authority and legitimate reasons for writing their accounts, and Stonehenge (and the Stonehenge market) is big enough to take it – and more. Both books give a personalised view, recording the remarkable revision of Stonehenge understanding/interpretatio