The Prehistoric Society Review of Hengeworld
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Description: A lengthy review by John Robb, University of Cambridge, of Mike Pitts' book on Stonehenge and the culture that produced it.
The Prehistoric Society - Membership Arrow. 2001 404p. 56 b/w figures. ISBN 0099278758. What is Hengeworld? Hengeworld is three things. First, the avowed justification for the term: it is useful to have a baggage-free label and concept to discuss the later Neolithic people of Southern Britain, rather than fossilizing them in distorting categories based on their chronology or (even worse) ceramics. Secondly, as a concept, "Hengeworld" neatly suggests that we should imagine these people not as shadows lurking behind megaliths or artifacts, but with real ethnographic depth as makers of their own cultural universe. Finally, the fantastic quality of the term - just as "Woodhenge" is a linguistic back-formation on "Stonehenge," "Hengeworld" carries overtones of Diskworld, Waterworld, Dune, and Middle Earth --lends the book a science-fiction air right on target for its purpose.
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