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  • Famed British Geologist Was Spectacularly Wrong About Stonehenge

    07/12/2018 4:00:09 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 41 replies
    Live Science ^ | July 6, 2018 | Laura Geggel, Senior Writer
    In 1923, famed British geologist Herbert Henry Thomas published a seminal study on Stonehenge, claiming to have found the precise spots where prehistoric people had quarried the stones. There was just one problem with his analysis: It was wrong. And it has taken geologists about 80 years to get it right, a new study finds. To debunk Thomas' work, Bevins and Ixer donned their Sherlock Holmes hats and examined Thomas' maps and rock samples. Thomas (1876-1935) was a geologist for the British Geological Survey who spent just one day in December 1906 surveying Mynydd Preseli... During his Preseli Hills visit,...