Hi Sifaka.

Have a feeling your question has been asked before on TMA but can't remember the name of the thread. The only novel on a Neolithic theme that springs to mind is Moyra Caldecott's Guardians of the Tall Stones (ISBN 0-89087-463-8). There are probably more novels (as well as films) out there that other folk on TMA might be able to help you with.

As for poems on a Neolithic/Megalithic theme you don't have to go far - just scroll down this page until you reach the Megalithic Poems thread - happy reading :-)

This might be somewhat like what you are looking for:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1413765335/mythicalireland

More info on it here:
http://www.mythicalireland.com/books/spirit-mound.php

Haven't read it myself so can't comment on the quality.

what was that movie with Danny Kay in it. something about being transported back in from Stonehenge or some such hollywood papier mache affair. and weren't the lines 'The chalice with the palace have the brew which is true' in it?

or am i just clumsily trying to butt in on your scene !! x

I seem to remember a film with (I think) Daryl Hannah, called 'Clan of the Cave Bear'. I was watching it in 1991 so it was probably made a few years before then. It sticks in my mind because the girlfriend of the time was reading a series of book of the same name and assume the film was based on these.

:o)

Chris

I guess it's more of a Palaeolithic theme but Ice Age is a fine family film that raises many a smile in our house. It's the closest I can get to raising any sort of interest in prehistory with my mob.
Can't say I was that impressed with Ice Age 2
(-:

3rd Stone had an article on the WWW covering megaliths in film but their website seems to have disappeared. I came across this site which may be of some help.
http://www.trussel.com/prehist/prebul.htm

cheers
fitz

Michelle Paver has a trilogy x2 "Chronicles of Ancient Darkness " set in Neolithic northern Europe . Hollywood is said to be interested . Havn't read any of it so no review .

"In the Neolithic" - Kipling. Posted somewhere in the "megalithic poems" thread.

'Ancestral Geographies of the Neolithic'.....

"Bones before him and open tomb behind, the shaman faced the living. All but the youngest knew the pattern of what would follow. He began with the invocation of names, the chain of generations that tied past to present. As he talked, he mapped the tale across the land that stretched away in front of them...
spoken in full, the litany of names charted the histories of families who cut back and forth across each other's paths... the tale knew few boundaries. It dwelt on recent years and it travelled outside time and the circle of seasons. Those who listened heard of the first people born from river and forest and of the forms and place each clan had taken. When the old ones died, they turned again to the forms and places each clan had taken. . . Those who came after built tombs in their honour, raising stone and earth to hold their essence.."

There's a good story to tell round the bonfire on Wednesday, especially the bit, which I have omitted, regarding the sorting of the body into bones ready for burial in the tomb.....

"First Light " by Peter Ackroyd ,about the discovery /excavation of a barrow in Dorset , quite good fun but not his best .

Whilst searching for some storytelling cds earlier on I came across these two novels (which aren't cds incidently but regular paperback books) which reminded me a wee bit of the earlier discussion of Mythago Wood. I've not read either of these books but very much like the sound of both, especially as one gets the thumbs up from Ronald Hutton.

The Long Woman - Kevan Manwaring
Set in 1923, it is the story of Maud Kerne, First World War widow who discovers
the journals of her antiquarian husband and goes on a journey of healing and
remembrance across the ancient landscape of Britain, a journey on which she
must stray from the path to find her way...An enchanting odyssey through the
sacred landscapes of Wessex and the secret landscapes of the soul.
‘An impressive first novel...one I am proud to possess’ Ronald Hutton

AWEN/ARTS COUNCIL OF ENGLAND £7, ISBN: 0-9546137-5-9

Windsmith - Kevan Manwaring
Alive in the lands of the dead – trapped in Paradise or the Place of Reckoning…?
Welcome to Shadow World When Isambard Kerne, officer of the Royal Flying Corps,
goes missing in action in the opening battle of the First World War in a biplane piloted
by Harry ‘Mad Duck’ Malleard, he is transported into a nightmarish limbo – trapped
by his wife’s grief. Separated from his pilot, Kerne finally arrives in an unknown
mountainous land where he meets an irascible talking falcon – Merlin, who becomes
his guide - and is taken to a Bronze Age tribe: the Chalk Folk, who carve giants from
the foothills of the dead. They treat him with fear and awe – for he has fallen from the sky,
and a previous stranger has become a warmongering tyrant: Taranis, the Iron King.
The tribe is attacked by his Iron Warriors – who kidnap the chieftain’s daughter. Kerne
feels responsible for bringing this doom upon them – for the Iron King is no less than his pilot, gone
mad with power in this strange land. He must stop his brother-in-arms, or perish himself – for their presence
in the Afterlands has caused a rift. They crossed through the Angel Gate alive – one of them must die to
pay the price, or the whole fabric of Shadow World is threatened. Isambard Kerne – a man of peace
in a time of war, must choose between the power of words or swords. The fate of both Earth and its
Shadow hangs in the balance. Will he be able to master the Way of the Windsmith in time to save the valley
of his ancestors? Or will the terror of war change him into what he fears the most?

Sulis Underground/Awen, ISBN:0-9546137-6-7 £9.99

Billy Connelly did one for children in need I think where he danced naked around a stone circle really funny
Snap

Although not Neolithic Brian Bates' "Way of Wyrd" was an excellent and knowledgeable evocation of Anglo -Saxon cosmology .

It may not be what you want or to everybodies taste but it made me giggle anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiFq_nk8pE0

:o)

Chris