Secrets of the Stones Author:jhn Michell Have we at last uncovered the meaning of Stonehenge and other enigmatic structures built before the dawn of history? By careful surveys of megalithic sites from Brittany to the Orkney Islands, a Scottish engineer named Alexander Thom has recently shown that these ancient earthworks are amazingly accurate stations for observing the stars. Concl... more »usions similar to Thom's had been reached before but had always been dismissed as impossible, since prehistoric peoples were believed to have been too benighted to comprehend astronomy. In this volume John Michell traces the progress of the astro-archaeological theory from the eighteenth century to the present, when it is virtually irrefutable. His is an astounding narrative, for it reveals a prehistoric science so advanced that its achievements can be evaluated only in the light of our own.« less