| Stonehenge, that awesome arrangement of stones onSalisbury Plain, has been the subject of countless studies,poems, and legends dating back beyond the days of KingArthur. What did this sombre group of stones signify toits builders ? Was it a city of the dead ? A Druid altar ofsacrifice ? A temple to the sun ? The dramatic decoding of the mystery began whenastronomer Dr. Gerald Hawkins decided to investigate thepeculiar arrangement of stones and holes at Stonehenge.He stood at each position and measured its various align-ments. Then he fed his measurements and the relevantastronomical data into a computer. All the evidence indicated that Stonehenge was a sophisti-cated and brilliantly conceived astronomical observatory,used by three different groups of people over a 400-yearperiod beginning around 1900 B.c. As Dr. Hawkins recreates his dramatic discovery, hetells of the mythology that has grown up around Stonehengeand of the remarkable techniques that were used to bringstones across 100 miles of sea and land to their present site.GeraM S. Hawkins is Professor of Astronomy at BostonUniversity and a research associate at the Harvard CollegeObservatory. |
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