Neolithic People May Have Hauled Stonehenge’s Giant Altar Stone across Britain

Jun 4, 2026 - 15:00
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Neolithic People May Have Hauled Stonehenge’s Giant Altar Stone across Britain
Stonehenge. Image credit: Sally Wilson.

Neolithic people, not glaciers, moved the Altar Stone -- the six-ton central sandstone megalith at Stonehenge -- from northeast Scotland to Salisbury Plain, according to a new study led by archaeologists from Curtin University and Sheffield Hallam University.

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