Hardback has sold over 3000 copies at £18.95 since publication at end of 1987.
New foreward by Sir Michael Tippett
The Knossos Labyrinth published November 1989 has sold 1250 copies during first month at £17.95
Rodney Casdeden is a geographer and geomorphologist by training and has been actively involved in research on landscape processes and prehistory for the last twenty years. He is also the author of The Knossos Labyrinth (1989), Minoans (1990) and The Making of Stonehenge (I993).
Title: The Stonehenge People: An Exploration of Life in Neolithic Britain 4700-2000 BC
Author: Castleden, Rodney
ISBN: 9780415040655
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 1990-03-29
Number of Pages: 296
Weight: 0.3221 kg
`...readable and useful...where a new or alternative idea is presented, it is clearly described...well balanced in approach and style, taking the reader as far as the evidence is likely to allow and no further.' - Nature
`This richly illustrated book will give the reader a profound insight into the mysteries and daily life of the ancient inhabitants of Britain.' - New Humanity
`The book is an ambitious attempt to bring the Neolithic period to life.' - The London Archaeologist
`A feast is in store for you. We are taken skilfully on an archaelogical tour of other ancient monuments and tombs in Britain and Ireland without ever getting bored or distracted. You want to re-read the book and let your own imagination roam in those far off days and see what implications this has on our present day existence. A marvellous book.' - New Humanity
`... readable and useful ... Wherever a new or alternative idea is presented it is clearly described ... well balanced in approach and style, taking the reader as far as the evidence is likely to allow and no further.' - Nature
`This imaginative book ... [contains] a richness of expression not usually encountered in archaeological books ... The book is an ambitious attempt to bring the Neolithic period to life, and the author has some interesting and sometime provocative statements to make.' - The London Archaeologist
`This richly illustrated book will give the reader a profound insight into the mysteries and daily life of the ancient inhabitants of Britain.' - New Humanity
`A feast is in store for you. We are taken skilfully on an archaeological tour of other ancient monuments and tombs in Britain and Ireland, without ever getting bored or distracted. You want to re-read the book and let your own imagination roam in those far off days and see what implications this has on our present day existence. A marvellous book.' - New Humanity
