Excavating the CA archive

In my columns to date I have barely mentioned Stonehenge. This is deliberate: for all that I worship archaeology, I am an atheist about this most famous of sites. I do not denigrate the emotion that it arouses, but personally it leaves me cold. There are so many other prehistoric places that I prefer. But to tell the story of the archaeology of the British Isles and conclude in Wiltshire without speaking of Stonehenge is impossible, and it is by sheer volume the single most mentioned location in the history of the magazine. Below, therefore, I provide some highlights from this coverage. The 1960s and 1970s (issues 1-69) One of the interesting things in tracking the story of Stonehenge