Hengeworld

Mike Pitts's 2000 Century work — the principal accessible scholarly synthesis of the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age henge tradition in Britain, with Stonehenge as the central case. Pitts, longtime editor of British Archaeology and excavator of the Stonehenge environs, situates Stonehenge within the broader Wessex monumental tradition (Avebury, Silbury Hill, Durrington Walls, the Cursus monuments) and documents the substantial communal-ritual character of the construction across multiple phases c. 3000–1500 BCE.