Aubrey Burl

Harry Aubrey Woodruff Burl (*24.9. 1926, †April 2020) war ein britischer Prähistoriker.

Leben

Burl war Dozent für Archäologie im Hull College im East Riding von Yorkshire. Er arbeitete vor allem über Steinkreise und andere megalithische Monumente und Henges. Burl war Mitglied der Society of Antiquaries of London und Ehrenmitglied der Schottischen Society of Antiquaries. 1998 erhielt er eine Festschrift.

Werke

Monographien

• Stonehenge, a new history of the world's greatest stone circle. London, Constable 2006.
• Great stone circles, fables, fiction, facts. New Haven, Yale University Press 1999.
• A guide to the stone circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany. New Haven, Yale University Press 1995 (überarbeitete Neuauflage 2005).
• Four-posters: Bronze Age stone circles of western Europe. Oxford, BAR British Series 195, 1998.
• Prehistoric Henges. Princes Risborough, Shire 1991.
• The stone circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany. New Haven, Yale University Press, Neuauflage 2000.
• From Carnac to Callanish, the prehistoric stone rows and avenues of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany. New Haven, Yale University Press 1993.
• Prehistoric astronomy and ritual. Aylesbury, Shire 1983 (Neuauflage 2005).
• Prehistoric Avebury. New Haven, Yale University Press: 1979 (Neuauflage 2002).
• Rings of stone: the prehistoric stone circles of Britain and Ireland. London, Frances Lincoln, distributed by Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1979.
• The Stonehenge people. London Dent 1987.

Artikel

• The Sun, the Moon, and Megaliths: Archaeo-Astronomy and the Standing Stones of Northern Ireland. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 50, 1987, 7-21.
• Dating the British Stone Circles, A provisional chronology for the geometrical designs of the Megalithic sites is based on evidence from architecture, Carbon-14, and artifacts. American Scientist 61/2, 1973, 167-174.