Stonehenge’s giant Altar Stone likely traveled about 700 kilometers from Scotland through a carefully planned human effort. New research from Curtin University is shedding new light on one of Stonehenge’s biggest mysteries: how a massive stone weighing around six tons made its way across Britain thousands of years ago. The focus of the study is [...]

Des chercheurs viennent-ils de lever l’un des secrets les mieux gardés de Stonehenge ?
Ils racontent en tout cas une histoire vertigineuse : l’une des pierres les plus énigmatiques du site aurait entrepris, il y a des (dizaines de) milliers d’années, un voyage de plusieurs centaines de...

Neolithic people, not glaciers, moved the Altar Stone -- the six-ton central sandstone megalith at Stonehenge -- from northeast Scotland to Salisbury Plain, according to a new study led by archaeologists from Curtin University and Sheffield Hallam University.

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