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| Project start date: 2003-06 | Project end date: 2010-12 |
The Stonehenge Riverside Project was initiated in 2003 with the overall aim of better understanding Stonehenge within its changing monumental and natural landscape context, especially through investigation of the hypothesis that Stonehenge (in its Phase 3) formed one half of a larger complex as a stone circle associated with the dead, in contrast to a timber circle associated with the living at Durrington Walls.
After five years of field investigations (landscape survey, geophysics, earthwork survey, excavation) and re-appraisal of previous interventions within the Stonehenge landscape, the project has completed its re-examination of Durrington Walls and surrounding monuments upstream from Stonehenge, and is intending to carry out a single, major season of excavations in 2008 at and around Stonehenge where key issues relating to the hypothesis and the understanding of Stonehenge’s context remain to be resolved.
| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| 2d modelling - raster | Data structuring and enhancement |
| 2d modelling - vector | Data structuring and enhancement |
| 2d scanning and photography | Data capture |
| 3d modelling - vector | Practice-led research |
| 3d modelling - vector | Data structuring and enhancement |
| 3d scanning | Practice-led research |
| 3d scanning | Data capture |
| Data modelling | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Documentation | Strategy and project management |
| General website development | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Geo-referencing and projection | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Geophysical survey | Data capture |
| GPS and total station surveys | Data capture |
| Heads-up digitising and interactive tracing | Data capture |
| Searching and querying | Data analysis |
| Statistical analysis | Data analysis |
The source data for these digital resources are derived from the Project's research.
Spatial and textual databases of the Project's archaeological activies are/have been generated.
While final formats are not at this stage finalised, the digital resources will include spatial infomation about physical events, such as excavation trenches, testpitting , geophysical survey etc, the analysis of data from these events, and textual relational databases to enhance these resources.
Parker Pearson, M., Cleal, R., Marshall, P., Needham, S., Pollard, J., Richards, C., Ruggles, C., Sheridan, A., Thomas, J., Tilley, C., Welham, K., Chamberlain, A., Chenery, C., Evans, J., Knüsel, C., Linford, N., Martin, L., Montgomery, J., Payne, A. and Richards, M. 2007. The age of Stonehenge. Antiquity 81: 617-39.
Parker Pearson, M., Pollard, J., Richards, C., Thomas, J., Tilley, C., Welham, K. 2006 Stonehenge, its river and its landscape: unravelling the mysteries of a prehistoric sacred place. Archäologischer Anzeiger 2006/1: 237-58.
Parker Pearson, M., Pollard, J., Richards, C., Thomas, J., Tilley, C., Welham, K. & Albarella, U. 2006. Materializing Stonehenge: the Stonehenge Riverside Project and new discoveries. Journal of Material Culture 11: 227-61.
Parker Pearson, M., Richards, C., Allen, M., Payne, A. and Welham, K. 2004. The Stonehenge Riverside project: research design and initial results. Journal of Nordic Archaeological Science 14: 45-60.
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| Bournemouth University |
| University College London |
| University of Bristol |
| University of Manchester |
| University of Sheffield |
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| This project description was developed as part of the ICT Guides project. |
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| Author(s) of record | Mark Dover / Michael Parker Pearson |
| Title | Stonehenge Riverside Project |
| Record created | 2008-05-23 |
| Record updated | 2010-01-27 15:10 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2304 |
| Citation of record | Mark Dover / Michael Parker Pearson: Stonehenge Riverside Project. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2304> created: 2008-05-23, last updated 2010-01-27 15:10 |
