Stonehenge: Making Space.(Review) (book reviews)

BARBARA BENDER. xiv+254 pages, 52 figures, 31 cartoons. 1998. Oxford: Berg; 1-85973-903-2 hardback [pounds]39.99; 1-85973-908-3 paperback [pounds]14.99.

Here are two books, ostensibly on the same subject, which encapsulate the two extremes of writing archaeology. One is the epitome of archaeology as high culture, the solid, beautifully bound book edited by the Oxbridge professors, produced from papers given at a conference at the Royal Society and published with colour plates and inserts by Oxford University Press for the British Academy. Not only is 'science' in the title, but ...

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