alt_history Sciencedaily 2026-09-10

Neolithic Commuters Lugged Stonehenge’s Altar Stone 400 Miles for Fun

New mineral dating and ice-sheet modeling published by researchers at Curtin University and Sheffield Hallam University indicate that Stonehenge's central six-ton Altar Stone was deliberately hauled from northeast Scotland to Salisbury Plain. While standard timelines traditionally paint Neolithic Britons as isolated and technologically primitive, this grueling cross-country logistics feat implies an astonishing degree of prehistoric long-distance trade and organized coordination.

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