Great Stone Circles: Fables, Fictions, Facts
- Aubrey Burl
Yale University Press, $30, £19.95
Was Stonehenge really dragged into place by teams of sweating labourers some 4,600 years ago? Archaeologist Aubrey Burl tackles this classic mystery and comes up with an easier mode of transport — glaciation — as part of a beautifully illustrated study of legend and history: Great Stone Circles: Fables, Fictions, Facts (Yale University Press, $30, £19.95).
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As old as the stones. Nature 400, 33 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/21815
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