Rodney Castleden,

The Making of Stonehenge (London: Routledge, 1993). A close look at each phase in the monument’s rise and fall .

R. M. Cleal, K. Walker, and R. Montague,

Stonehenge in Its Landscape (London: English Heritage, 1995). A fat technical report that brings together all of the results of all of the twentieth century’s crucial excavations .

John North,

Stonehenge (New York: The Free Press, 1996). The latest and most thorough presentation of the astronomical thesis. North’s thesis, which impressed many but convinced fewer, is that Stonehenge embodied many significant alignments, but that previous astronomers have failed to recognize them since they looked at the sun from the center of the monument, when they should have been doing so from outside the circle .

David Souden,

Stonehenge (London: Collins & Brown, 1997). Commissioned by English Heritage, the quasi- independent agency that controls the monument, this is a clear exposition of the orthodox position, accepting some (but rejecting most) astronomical theories .

Barry Cunliffe and Colin Renfrew, eds.,

Science and Stonehenge (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997). A collection of essays that grew out of a conference held after the appearance of

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