Hawkins's computer was too literal. But his instinct — that Stonehenge handled information — survives every test the sixty years since have thrown at it. An investigation through stone provenance, isotopes, ancient DNA and landscape archaeology, ending with a named, testable hypothesis: the Gathering Engine.
I. The Prestidigitator at the Edge of the World
In the landscape of contemporary ecological philosophy, David Abram cuts a figure both enigmatic and essential....