Science & Planet, A team of British archaeologists has become obsolete, where a number of the massive stones from which Stonehenge is constructed, one of the most famous landmarks of Great Britain. This week in the scientific journal Antiquity.
The blue limestone – named after the blue-gray color – would from two quarries come in the west of Wales and over a distance of up to 290 kilometers dragged. Were wooden sleds used, which are pulled by teams of strong men.
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Chemical studies had previously been brought to light that the stones from somewhere in the Preseli Hills in Pembrokeshire had to be because that type of rock only to be found there, but the exact location was not discovered yet. Up to now, so. the
Archaeological excavations in 2014 and 2016, brought 5,000 year old charcoal and stone tools to light in the quarries of Carn Goedog and Craig Rhos-y-felin. In some places it was charcoal mixed with mud and stones to platforms, that were used to create solid blocks of loading. the
The excavation happened around 3,000 Bc – 5,000 years ago – from rock that millions of years ago, had been formed by large blocks of petrified magma in the course of centuries, Dutch left. The excavation would be quite easy to be gone. (read on below)
