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.