Creating Prehistory: Druids, Ley Hunters and Archaeologists in Pre-War BritainISBN: 978-1-4051-5505-2
Paperback
336 pages
June 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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- Investigates the origins of professional archaeology in Britain
during the inter-war period
- Brings to life many fascinating and controversial personalities
and their creeds, including the archaeologists O. G. S. Crawford,
Mortimer Wheeler and Gordon Childe; Grafton Elliot Smith and W. H.
R. Rivers (of ‘Regeneration’ fame); Alfred Watkins and
The Old Straight Track; and the thunderous George Watson
Macgregor Reid, who brought the Druids back to Stonehenge
- Examines the production of archaeological knowledge as a social
process, and the relationship between personalities, institutions,
ideology, and power
- Addresses the ongoing debates of the significance of sites such as Stonehenge, Avebury, and Maiden Castle