Stonehenge Rock Source Identified

[ashling]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stonehenge-rock-source-identified/?WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook

Scientists have found the exact source of Stonehenge's smaller bluestones, new research suggests.

The stones' rock composition revealed they come from a nearby outcropping, located about 1.8 miles (3 kilometers) away from the site originally proposed as the source of such rocks nearly a century ago. The discovery of the rock's origin, in turn, could help archaeologists one day unlock the mystery of how the stones got to Stonehenge.

The work "locates the exact sources of the stones, which highlight areas where archaeologists can search for evidence of the human working of the stones," said geologist and study co-author Richard Bevins of the National Museum of Wales. [In Photos: A Walk Through Stonehenge]

[uppityperson]

1. That is much more reasonable than this idea. Interesting, will go read it, thanks

[Vashta Nerada]

5. Actually,

the opposite side of the Earth from Stonehenge is somewhere in the South Pacific Ocean, just south and east of New Zealand: http://www.freemaptools.com/tunnel-to-other-side-of-the-earth.htm or http://www.antipodr.com/

[bettyellen]

6. That's why his legs are bent!

[dipsydoodle]

2. I wouldn't go with the ice-transport theory

which would preassume they either used all of the rock which got to Salisbury Plain that way or they shipped off the excess elsewhere so as not to give the game away.

[d_r]

3. stonehenge rock source

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. LOL!

[Dr. Strange]

7. Interestingly, Nigel Tufnel is quite an expert on the Stonehenge.

[d_r]

8. I know a bit about it myself

I also read Catcher in the Rye

[KurtNYC]

9. Stonehenge 'may have been giant musical instrument' -BBC

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-26466682