Posted on 09/19/2025 12:08:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Past theories held that a long-debated stone, known as the "Newall boulder," had been moved by glacial ice long before humans ever arrived to construct the iconic monument.
However, new evidence strengthens the case that Neolithic people transported the site's mysterious bluestones, rather than the massive glaciers that covered parts of Earth during the last Ice Age.
Originally discovered during excavations in 1924 by Lt-Col William Hawley, the famous stone was later removed by his assistant, R.S. Newall. The new findings, published in a study in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, relied on petrographic, geochemical, and imaging analyses to identify the Newall boulder as a match for rhyolite found at Craig Rhos-y-Felin in north Pembrokeshire.
This refutes long-held ideas about the stone having been an erratic, which refers to when stones—and sometimes very large ones—are removed from their original geological context and carried over sometimes surprising distances. Although this process is most often associated with the glacial transportation of geologic materials, stones can also be moved by other means, including powerful tsunamis and even being carried by animals...
Recent geochemical and petrographic tests, which include X-ray fluorescence and automated SEM-EDS imaging, revealed striking mineralogical "fingerprints" that include evidence of minerals such as stilpnomelane and titanite, whose precise alignment supports the correlation between the Newall boulder and its suspected site of origin.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedebrief.org ...
Yep. The Krauts got an early start and hid the whole thing, right there in England.
Wait a minute, I thought they hid that in Antartica, next to the UFOs.
All BS aside, Stonehenge mysteries really tickle the mind. Those were very stubborn and determined people to put in such a gargantuan effort to transport those stones and then build it. It is unsettling that it was considered an ancient mystery even to the Druids. We don’t know who we are.
Some of the best-known great monuments appear to mark a cultural/political peak that's about to followed by s steep decline. F'instance, the Giza / Abu Roash pyramids (Khufu, Djedjefre, Khafre, Menkaure) are considered 4th dynasty, but Menkaure's son and successor is the considered the first of the 5th dynasty, which regressed to mastabas instead of a pyramids for pharaohs' burial monuments.
Whoops, my mistake, when the 5th d burials moved to Saqqara, they still used pyramids, but they were pretty crappy ones.
“Everybody must get stones...” [Sorry, Dylan]
They WERE gatherers, afterall...
It just pisses me off that following generation removed stones from the older structures to build their crappy stuff. When we collapse, they’ll do the same here. The electrical and rail infrastructures will be looted for the metal. Well, the railroad can be used to make a great many quality swords.
LOL!
Anecdote, from Failing Memory Lane: during archaeological work on a much smaller British monument, or rather, perhaps what was left of it, a very large menhir was re-erected. Underneath were the remains of what had been a pretty well-dressed 15th or 16th (can't remember, dating was based on the coins still in his coin purse) man, probably the posh guy directing the removal of the stone hundreds of years ago.
Old Kingdom Egypt was picked apart for stone by Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom dynasties, and of course everyone since has done the same by pretty much everything from pharaonic times.
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