Picture this: an archaeologist sitting at a desk, scrolling through satellite images, when massive stone circles suddenly appear on the screen. That is roughly how this story begins. David Kennedy, an archaeologist at the University of Western Australia, was reviewing satellite images of the basalt desert in Jordan. He had not expected to find thousands of unexplained patterns of stone, but that's what came up. In Kennedy's 2011 Journal of Archaeological Science study, these structures, nicknamed "wheels," turned out to be among the largest assemblages of ancient stonework documented from the air.
What are these wheels
