Chemical Analysis Cracks Stonehenge’s Altar Stone Mystery and Rewrites Its Tale
A new chemical study finally pinned the origin of Stonehenge’s famous altar stone, flipping old assumptions about how far it traveled. Metal signatures in the sample match rocks in far-northern Scotland, not the nearer southern regions experts assumed.
A new chemical study finally pinned the origin of Stonehenge’s famous altar stone, flipping old assumptions about how far it traveled.
Metal signatures in the sample match rocks in far-northern Scotland, not the nearer southern regions experts assumed.
It points to astonishing logistics hauling the stone immense distances thousands of years ago.
How was a car-sized stone dragged across hundreds of miles in the pre-Iron Age? The question opened a new page on ancient logistics.
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