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The World of Stonehenge exhibition: Britain and Europe from 4000–1000 BC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2022

Chris Scarre
Chris Scarre*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Durham University, UK (✉ chris.scarre@durham.ac.uk)
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The World of Stonehenge is the latest in a series of impressive exhibitions at the British Museum devoted to European prehistory: a worthy successor to Ice Age Art in 2012 and Celts: art and identity in 2015. Like them, it has already attracted significant public attention, with a raft of positive reviews in the press. Indeed, given the quality and range of material on display, it could hardly fail to be a success. Not only does it gather together key objects from a series of British and Irish museums, but also a range of striking artefacts from continental Europe. Among these, first place must surely go to the Nebra ‘sky disc’; but there are also major finds from France, Switzerland, Denmark and northern Italy that will not previously have been seen in Britain.

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Review Article
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Antiquity , Volume 96 , Issue 387 , June 2022 , pp. 762 - 767
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Antiquity Publications Ltd.

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