What appeared to be the head of a stone mace, a symbol of authority, was found in one grave, the archaeologists said, indicating that this was probably a cemetery for the ruling dynasty responsible for erecting Stonehenge.
It is no easy job for a novelist to imagine himself into the head of a Stone Age hunter-gatherer.
He also used studio mock-ups of sections of the stone heads — "just enough to put the actors on so we could get down shots, up shots, side shots, whatever we needed," Mr. Boyle said.
All of the stone heads have been assigned to the Preclassic period of Mesoamerican chronology, generally to the Early Preclassic (1500 1000 BC), although the two Tres Zapotes heads and the La Cobata Head are attributed to the Middle Preclassic (1000 400 BC).
Correction to this articleA MASSIVE stone head of the Emperor Hadrian is the first exhibit a visitor sees in the British Museum's exploration of "the life, love and legacy of Rome's most enigmatic Emperor".
On the day the head of the Met said that "no stone will be left unturned" in its fresh investigation into the allegations announced this week, four years after initial convictions in the case, Goldsmith criticised both News International and the Met.
We walk away from the quayside in St Peter Port, up a curling road of elegant whitewashed Georgian houses, to a green door at the head of stone steps.
LAST night Doug Ducey, Arizona's treasurer and a former head of Cold Stone Creamery, a chain of ice-cream parlours, emerged victorious in a six-way Republican primary with 37% of the vote to become the party's candidate for November's gubernatorial race.
In addition, archeologists have found that many of the stone mace heads (hard, polished, holed stones) that litter the site had been broken in two in exactly the same place.
The head of the household occupies a small, round stone hut, which is sealed with a conical thatched roof.
