Current Issue March 2014 magazine cover  Save 81% off the
newsstand price!  Work on Stonehenge began around 3000 B.C.,
with a ditch circling wood posts. (Doug Stern)  Mystery Man of
Stonehenge  Who was he and where did he come from? And what was
his role in the making of the great monument? The discovery of a
4,300-year-old skeleton surrounded by intriguing artifacts has
archaeologists abuzz  In the spring of 2002, archaeologists were
nearly finished excavating the site of a planned housing
development in Amesbury, a town in southwestern England. It had
been a “routine excavation—bread and butter, as it were,” says
archaeologist Andrew Fitzpatrick, leader of the team from Wessex
Archaeology conducting the dig. The team had uncovered a small
Roman cemetery, a fairly common finding. Now all that was left
to check out were two rough patches of ground—“blobs,”
Fitzpatrick calls them—in a far corner of the site.  From This
Story  Early on that Friday in May, the crew went to work on the
blobs with their trowels. B