Neolothic builders used stone from 160 miles away
(NEWSER) - Scientists have for the first time pinpointed the exact location of rock used to build part of Stonehenge, the Independent reports. British geologists say rock in some of the early, smaller standing stones—not the big "sarsen" ones—originated in a 70-yard-long outcropping about 160 miles away. Did the builders of Stonehenge actually quarry the stone 5,000 years ago and carry it that far? Possibly—unless it had floated down on a glacier hundreds of thousands of years before. More»
