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The 25 pages that link to Stonehenge, each with the reason it gives.
Bronze AgeRelated: Its later use and surrounding burials link a famous monument to Bronze Age communities.
NeolithicBroader topic: Its earliest phases show the scale of collective building near the Neolithic's end in Britain.
EquinoxRelated: Its stones align with solar events, including the equinox sunrise and sunset.
Megalithic architectureBroader topic: Its stone circle and lintelled trilithons are an iconic monumental arrangement.
SolsticeBroader topic: Its principal axis aligns approximately with the midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset.
Bell Beaker cultureRelated: Beaker-period burials and objects occur in the landscape around this famous monument.
Nabta PlayaCompared with: Its better-known monumental form highlights how different Nabta Playa's scale and evidence are.
ArchaeoastronomyBroader topic: Its architecture and landscape have prompted extensive study of possible solar and lunar associations.
June solsticeRelated: Its axis aligns with sunrise around the June solstice.
Post-and-lintel constructionBroader topic: Its trilithons are prominent examples of massive stone lintels resting on upright stones.
December solsticeBroader topic: Its architecture aligns with significant solar positions, including the solstitial cycle.
Prehistoric religionBroader topic: Its construction and alignments point to communal ceremonial practices, though specific beliefs are uncertain.
Winter solsticeBroader topic: Its stones frame significant solar alignments, including the winter-solstice sunset.
MegalithBroader topic: Its sarsen stones and smaller bluestones form one of the best-known megalithic monuments.
John AubreyBroader topic: Aubrey documented its features and proposed an influential, though incorrect, connection to the Druids.
WiltshireBroader topic: Wiltshire’s best-known prehistoric monument stands on Salisbury Plain.
Callanish StonesCompared with: Its construction and later development offer a comparison with Callanish’s distinct Hebridean layout.
Prehistoric BritainBroader topic: Its construction reveals changing ritual and social organization in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain.
Prehistoric EuropeBroader topic: Its construction illuminates communal labor, ritual, and monument-building in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain.
William StukeleyRelated: Stukeley surveyed the monument and made it central to his antiquarian writing.
History of constructionBroader topic: Its construction illuminates prehistoric planning, transport, and collective labor.
StonemasonryBroader topic: Its precisely arranged stones illustrate the social and technical demands of monumental construction.
Architecture of the United KingdomBroader topic: Its massive stones mark one of Britain’s earliest monumental building traditions.
O. G. S. CrawfordBroader topic: Crawford's aerial work helped place famous monuments within the wider archaeological landscape.
Stone slabRelated: Its lintels demonstrate the use of large stone pieces in monumental construction.