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Stonehenge: New Discoveries

Lecture: Special | November 20 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 160 Kroeber Hall

Speaker: Michael Parker-Pearson, Professor, Archaeology, Sheffield University

Sponsor: Archaeological Research Facility

For the first time in 30 years, archaeologists have returned to Stonehenge to carry out excavations in and around this world-famous monument. The Stonehenge Riverside Project has revolutionized our knowledge and understanding of Stonehenge and its context within the European Neolithic. Not only has the project discovered a large Neolithic settlement at the nearby henge enclosure of Durrington Walls but it has also developed new chronologies for Stonehenge and its surrounding monuments, including those which were hitherto undated and unknown. The most recent find is a new stone circle, Bluestonehenge, which was contemporary with Stonehenge. The project has applied a range of theoretical perspectives as well as a battery of scientific techniques, challenging and overturning previous interpretations of this iconic monument and its landscape.

Sponsored by ARF and the Department of Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

Event Contact: hastorf@berkeley.edu