ALTERNATOR BOOKS MYSTERIES OF STONEHENGE Elizabeth Weitzman Lerner Publications Minneapolis
INTRODUCTION SOLVING STONEHENGE By summer of 2005 British archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson was extremely frustrated He had been digging trenches near the massive rocks of Stonehenge in southwestern England for more than a year He was determined to find the ancient remains of a prehistoric settlement near this five thousand year old monument So far he'd come up
The huge stone circle had baffled him since his early trips to see it as a child He had the same questions other people have when they look at this strange collection of 25 ton 23 metric ton rocks Why and how did Stonehenge wind up in the middle of a lonely field in Wiltshire