Practice question · Multiple choice
Stonehenge is often presented as standing alone on the plain. Why does the surrounding landscape change how it is understood?
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- Ask what else lies within a few kilometres. Durrington Walls, the Cursus, the Avenue.
- A monument in a complex means something different from a monument alone.
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A. Because it sits within a dense complex of related sites
Why
The isolation is an artefact of how it is photographed. Read as part of its complex, Stonehenge is one node in a landscape organised over more than a millennium.
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