Debate Sparks Over How Stonehenge's Bluestones Were Transported

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Debate Sparks Over How Stonehenge's Bluestones Were Transported
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A recent study challenges the theory that the Newall Boulder at Stonehenge was transported by glaciers, instead supporting the idea that Neolithic humans actively quarried and moved the stones from Wales around 3000 BCE, based on petrographic analysis and lack of glacial evidence in the area.

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