F26T Stonehenge: History of a Mystery (Zoom)
Zoom | Available (Membership Required)
[NEW COURSE] Half a million people visit Stonehenge every year, few of them with any solid idea about the complexity and history of the landscape surrounding the monument. This course give you an introduction to the archaeology and theories for the Stonehenge prehistoric complex. It will introduce you to some of the difficulties in understanding a site whose last recorded use lies 3,500 years in the past, whose builders spanned 5,000 years, and whose meaning has been twisted to include everything from prehistoric supercomputer to Druidic temple. It will also bring in modern controversies as well as interpretation and preservation. The course approach will combine archaeological, environmental, engineering, religious, and folkloric data with landscape studies and social anthropology to explore this dynamic British landscape.
Optional Text: Stonehenge: The Story of a Sacred Landscape by Francis Pryor and Stonehenge: The Biography of a Landscape by Timothy Darville
Audio/Visual, Discussion, Lecture, Reading
No class September 29
*This registration item is for ZOOM ONLY. You may not attend this course in the building. DO NOT ALSO REGISTER FOR THE HYBRID SECTION OF THIS COURSE.*
Kimberly Reiter
Kimberly D. Reiter, Associate Professor Emerita of Ancient History at Stetson University (Florida), has been teaching for almost 40 years. Besides her favorite courses in Roman, Naval and English history, she is an expert on European prehistory, past president of the Interdisciplinary Environmental Association, a recipient of the NEH Enduring Questions Grant, and she co-directed field courses in England, Rome, and Venice. Currently her greatest challenge is exploring her new home in Rochester NY (as drivers here are crazy) and wondering where to put her books.