Stonehenge by Mike Parker Pearson: review

An impressive academic work on Stonehenge by Professor Mike Parker Pearson shows that early Briton was a masterful architect.

One thing’s for sure, Mike Parker Pearson won’t be bouncing up and down on Jeremy Deller’s inflatable replica of Stonehenge this summer. The title of Deller’s artwork, Sacrilege, couldn’t prove more appropriate. As Professor Pearson establishes once and for all in his (literally) groundbreaking new book, Stonehenge has a very curious connection to the dead.

In 1918 the Office of Works rather hastily entrusted the restoration of Stonehenge to the amateur hands of an archaeologist named Hawley. "Archaeology has been likened to a historian reading the last surviving copy of an ancient book and then tearing out and burning every page", Pearson says. Hawley’s involvement was a bit like this.
...
telegraph.co.uk
Book: Stonehenge