Books by Mike Pitts
“How to Build Stonehenge does what it says: it takes you through the actual process of how people built Stonehenge. He looks at all the evidence for where the stones came from, how they were brought to the site, how they were shaped and worked, how they were set up… all the architectural detail of the monument. It’s based on the latest research, because these stories are always changing, particularly about where the stones are from and how they were moved and worked. Mike draws particularly on ethnographic sources of information about how people in more recent historical societies, or current societies around the world who still build megaliths, do the moving and building of stone monuments – for example in Easter Island or Indonesia.” Read more...
Susan Greaney, Historian
Interviews where books by Mike Pitts were recommended
The best books on Stonehenge, recommended by Susan Greaney
Stonehenge does not stand alone: it is surrounded by earlier monuments, it was built alongside a settlement and other sites, and it presides over graves and shrines from people who lived centuries and even millennia later. In modern history, it has inspired a Druidry movement, hosted a military airbase, drawn festival crowds and seen police brutality. Susan Greaney pulls out five books that tell the many stories of Stonehenge, the astonishing monument that continues to surprise us with each new excavation.
