Jacquetta Hawkes is an archeologist in love with the earth and stone of her native Britain. Out of her studies and her warm prejudice has come an extraordinary book called A Land, tracing the relationship between man and rock. With its publication in the U.S. last week (Random House; $3.75), readers found that the book is also a refreshing document on stone and art.
To Author Hawkes, the "center of gravity of a people in any age" can be found in the way they build. "Neolithic communities hauled megalithic blocks to their communal tombs, Bronze Age men did the same for...
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