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Riddles in Stone: Myths, Archaeology, and the Ancient Britons

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This is a great book. It discusses the megalithic monuments in the British Isles from an approach which is refreshingly different than most other books that cover the same topic.

The book includes a wide range of quotes, references, and historiographical information. It's fairly easy to read, and I didn't have to keep myself awake while reading it.

In this well-written book, Hayman does a fantastic job of supporting an idea which seems to be forgotten all too often. The idea being that no one knows for certain why prehistoric megalithic monuments were built in the British Isles.

As Hayman points out, the wide variety of beliefs (held by those who did NOT build the monuments) about why the monuments were built, cannot be proven true or false. Although archaeologists and others will assert that Stonehenge, etc, was built for this or that reason, we do not know and probably will never know the reason(s) for the construction of such amazing and awe-inspiring creations. I highly recommend this book.