BURL, (Harry) Aubrey (Woodruff) 1926-

PERSONAL: Born September 24, 1926, in London, England; son of Harry (an engineer) and Lily (Wright) Burl; married Margaret Mary O'Neil (a lecturer), December 17, 1966; children: Geoffrey Nicholas Harry. Education: University of London, B.A., 1953; University of Leicester, Ph.D., 1970. Politics: "Non-radical." Religion: Church of England.

ADDRESSES: Home—198 Park Ave., Hull, Humberside HU5 3EY, England. Offıce—Department of Evolution and Prehistory, Hull College of Higher Education, Hull, Humberside, England.

CAREER: University of London, London, England, affiliate, 1947-51; teacher of history and archaeology in Leicestershire, England, 1952-70; Hull College of Higher Education, Hull, Humberside, England, archaeologist, beginning 1970. Military service: Royal Navy, 1944-47; became sub-lieutenant.

MEMBER: Prehistoric Society, Council for British Archaeology (member of executive committee), Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Wiltshire Archaeological Society.

WRITINGS:

The Stone Circles of the British Isles, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 1976, revised and expanded edition published as The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany, 2000.

Prehistoric Avebury, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 1979, new edition, 2002.

Prehistoric Stone Circles, Shire Publications (Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England), 1979.

Rings of Stone, Frances Lincoln (London, England), 1979.

Rites of the Gods, J. M. Dent (London, England), 1981.

Prehistoric Astronomy and Ritual, Shire Publications (Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England), 1983.

Megalithic Brittany: A Guide to over 350 Ancient Sites and Monuments, Thames & Hudson (London, England), 1985.

The Stonehenge People: Life and Death at the World's Greatest Stone Circle, J. M. Dent (London, England), 1987.

Four-Posters: Bronze Age Stone Circles of Western Europe, B. A. R. (Oxford, England), 1988.

Prehistoric Henges, Shire Publications (Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England), 1991.

From Carnac to Callanish: The Prehistoric Stone Rows and Avenues of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 1993.

A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 1995.

Circles of Stone: The Prehistoric Rings of Britain and Ireland, Harvill Press (London, England), 1999.

Great Stone Circles: Fables, Fictions, Facts, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 1999.

Danse Macabre: Francois Villon, Poetry, and Murder in Medieval France, Sutton Publishing (Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England), 2000.

God's Heretics: The Albigensian Crusade, Sutton Publishing (Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England), 2002.

Contributor to books, including Stone Rows and Standing Stones: Britain, Ireland, and Brittany, by A. Thom and A. S. Thom, B. A. R. (Oxford, England), 1990. Contributor to archaeology journals and American Scientist.

SIDELIGHTS: Aubrey Burl once told CA: "I am interested in recovery of information about prehistoric societies in western Europe and North America. I research unpublished material and do a lot of fieldwork and excavation. I believe, heretically, that archaeology is not a science, but a branch of the humanities, and that poetry is every bit as important to the prehistorian as physics."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

BOOKS

Gibson, Alex, and Derek Simpson, editors, Prehistoric Ritual and Religion: Essays in Honour of Aubrey Burl, Sutton Publishing (Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England), 1998.

PERIODICALS

Antiquity, March, 1987, P. R. Giot, review of Megalithic Brittany: A Guide to over 350 Ancient Sites and Monuments, p. 152; November, 1987, Julian Richards, review of The Stonehenge People: Life and Death at the World's Greatest Stone Circle, p. 502; March, 1992, A. F. Harding, review of Prehistoric Henges, p. 274; March, 1994, Andrew Sherratt, review of From Carnac to Callanish: The Prehistoric Stone Rows and Avenues of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany, p. 177; March, 2001, Caroline Malone, review of The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany, p. 208.

Art in America, November, 1981, David Bourdon, review of Prehistoric Avebury and Rings of Stone, p. 27.

Atlantic Monthly, August, 1999, review of Great Stone Circles, p. 94.

Bloomsbury Review, January, 1996, review of A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany, p. 6.

British Book News, March, 1982, review of Rites of the Gods, p. 147.

Choice, December, 1982, review of Rites of the Gods, p. 630; May, 1994, E. J. Kealey, review of From Carnac to Callanish, p. 1486; October, 1999, E. J. Kealey, review of Great Stone Circles: Fables, Fiction, Facts, p. 396.

Christian Science Monitor, July 3, 1986, review of Prehistoric Avebury, p. B4.

Economist, February 27, 1982, review of Rites of the Gods, p. 91.

Geographical, July, 1999, review of Circles of Stone: The Prehistoric Rings of Britain and Ireland, p. 75.

History Today, January, 1988, Simon Esmonde Cleary, review of The Stonehenge People, p. 56; October, 1993, review of From Carnac to Callanish, p. 53.

Kliatt Young Adult Paperback Book Guide, fall, 1986, review of Prehistoric Avebury, p. 59.

Library Journal, September 1, 1982, review of Rites of the Gods, p. 1672; August, 1999, John Burch, review of Great Stone Circles, p. 110; July, 2000, Scott Hightower, review of Danse Macabre: Francois Villon, Poetry, and Murder in Medieval France, p. 90.

London Review of Books, March 18, 1982, review of Rites of the Gods, p. 5.

Nature, October 29, 1987, review of The Stonehenge People, p. 773; January 27, 1994, Graham Ritchie, review of From Carnac to Callanish, p. 329.

Publishers Weekly, March 21, 1986, review of Prehistoric Avebury, p. 85; May 29, 2000, review of Danse Macabre, p. 62.

Religious Studies Review, July, 1988, review of The Stonehenge People, p. 231.

Times Educational Supplement, June 6, 1986, review of Megalithic Brittany, p. 629; November 6, 1987, review of The Stonehenge People, p. 26.

Times Literary Supplement, December 4, 1987, review of The Stonehenge People, p. 1355; October 21, 1994, Mark Patton, review of From Carnac to Callanish, p. 13; May 19, 2000, Graham Robb, review of Danse Macabre, p. 9; November 8, 2002, Colin Morris, review of God's Heretics: The Albigensian Crusade, p. 34.*