Stonehenge

Stonehenge stones may have been first erected in another country

By Kate Seamons
Published December 11, 2015
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In this Tuesday Dec. 17, 2013 file photo, visitors take photographs of
the world heritage site of Stonehenge, England.

In this Tuesday Dec. 17, 2013 file photo, visitors take photographs of
the world heritage site of Stonehenge, England. (AP Photo/Alastair
Grant, File)

Stonehenge may reside in England, but it "was a Welsh monument from its
very beginning." So says Professor Mike Parker Pearson in reference to
what is a big step forward in our understanding of Stonehenge, reports
the [178]BBC.

His team's research, published Monday in the journal Antiquity,
establishes the source [179]of the monument's "bluestones," the smaller
of its stones, which for nine decades were known to generally hail from
the Preseli Hills in Wales.

Now, scientists say they know exactly where in Wales they came from:
the "spotted dolerite" bluestones hail from Carn Goedog, while the
"rhyolite" were extracted from Craig Rhos-y-felin, reports
[180]Phys.org.

The burnt hazelnuts and charcoal that persist as remnants of
millennia-old campfires at the quarries further flesh out the tale of
the rocks. "We have dates of around 3400 BC for Craig Rhos-y-felin and
3200 BC for Carn Goedog, which is intriguing because the bluestones
didn't get put up at Stonehenge until around 2900 BC," says Parker
Pearson per Phys.org.

"It could have taken those Neolithic stone-draggers nearly 500 years to
get them to Stonehenge, but that's pretty improbable." His theory: The
stones were put to use in a local monument, which was latter
disassembled.

His team suspects the remnants of that monument could sit between the
two quarries; "we may find something big in 2016," says one scientist.
If they do, Parker Pearson believes it could reveal "the mystery of why
Stonehenge was built and why some of its stones were brought so far."
One theory he shares with the [181]Guardian: that it's a "monument of
unification, bringing together people from across the many parts of
Britain." (This massive site [182]might put Stonehenge to shame.)

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