Aubrey Burl

Harry Aubrey Woodruff Burl

Burl's work, while considering the astronomical roles of many megalithic monuments, was cautious of embracing the more tenuous claims of archaeoastronomy.^[4] In Prehistoric Avebury Burl proposed that Circles and Henge monuments, far from being astronomical observatories for a class of "astronomer priests" were more likely used for ritualistic practices, connected with death and fertility rites, and ancestor worship, similar to practices observed in other agricultural cultures (in particular the rituals of Native North American Tribes such as the Algonquin and the Pawnee). Rituals would have been performed at key times of the year, such as the Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice, to ensure a successful harvest from the land.

His approach led him to question what he saw as the over-romanticised view that

Burl died in April 2020 at the age of 93.[7]

Publications

Major archeological books

• Burl, Aubrey. The Stone Circles of the British Isles. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976.
  ISBN 978-0-300-01972-8
• Burl, Aubrey. Prehistoric Avebury. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
  ISBN 978-0-300-02368-8
• Burl, Aubrey, and Edward Piper. Rings of Stone: The Prehistoric Stone Circles of Britain and Ireland. New Haven: Ticknor & Fields, 1980,
  ISBN 978-0-89919-000-6
• Burl, Aubrey, Megalithic Brittany. Thames and Hudson, 1985.
  ISBN 0-500-01364-0
• Burl, Aubrey, and Max Milligan. Circles of Stone. The Harvill Press, 1999.
  ISBN 1-86046-661-3
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• Burl, Aubrey. Rites of the Gods. London: J.M. Dent, 1981.
• Burl, Aubrey. The Stonehenge People / Aubrey Burl. London: J.M. Dent, 1987,
  ISBN 978-0-460-04485-1
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• Burl, Aubrey. Great Stone Circles: Fables, Fictions, Facts. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999,
  ISBN 978-0-300-07689-9
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• Burl, Aubrey. The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000,
  ISBN 978-0-300-08347-7
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• Burl, Aubrey. A Brief History of Stonehenge. London: Robinson, 2007.
  ISBN 978-1-84529-591-2
• Burl, Aubrey. Four-posters: Bronze Age stone circles of Western Europe. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1988.
  ISBN 0860545806
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• Burl, Aubrey. From Carnac to Callanish. The Prehistoric Stone Rows and Avenues of Britain, Ireland and Brittany. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
  ISBN 0-300-05575-7

• Burl, Aubrey. Danse Macabre: Franc̦ois Villon, Poetry, & Murder in Medieval France. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Pub, 2000.
• Burl, Aubrey. God's Heretics: The Albigensian Crusade. Stroud: Sutton, 2002.
  ISBN 978-0-7509-2572-3
  • Translated into Polish as Burl, Aubrey, and Dorota Strukowska. Heretycy: krucjata przeciw Albigensom. Wrocław: Wydawn. Dolnośląskie, 2003.
    ISBN 978-83-7384-075-1
• Burl, Aubrey, and Humphrey Clucas. Catullus: A Poet in the Rome of Julius Caesar. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004
• Burl, Aubrey. Black Barty: Bartholomew Roberts and His Pirate Crew 1718–1723. Stroud: Sutton, 2006
• Burl, Aubrey. Courts of Love, Castles of Hate: Troubadours and Trobairitz in Southern France 1071-1321. Stroud: Sutton, 2008.
  ISBN 978-0-7509-4536-3