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Stonehenge Star Trail

This second booklet in the Marking Time Beneath Different Skies series explores Stonehenge within its broader Neolithic context, focusing on people, landscape, and long-term social change rather than celestial cycles alone. Drawing on current archaeological research into Neolithic Britain and the Stonehenge landscape, including major landscape studies and excavation programmes by researchers such as Mike Parker Pearson, Julian Thomas, Alasdair Whittle, and David Jacques, it examines how Stonehenge emerged from earlier Mesolithic use of the landscape, developed through successive Neolithic phases, and functioned within a connected ritual world on Salisbury Plain. By situating Stonehenge within these wider patterns of continuity, movement, and memory, the booklet offers a deeper understanding of how monuments were shaped by, and in turn shaped, Neolithic life in Britain.