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The towering rocks at Stonehenge are so heavy that, according to a new controversial idea, a glacier, rather than Neolithic people, may have carried them from western Wales and dropped them off at Salisbury Plain in England, where the ancient monument stands today...

This glacier hypothesis isn't new; it was first proposed in 1902 in the journal Archaeologia. But a seminal 1923 paper by British geologist Herbert Henry Thomas -- who linked the bluestones to rock outcrops in Pembrokeshire in western Wales -- dismissed the glacier idea....

But many archaeologists disagree, saying that this hypothesis lacks evidence and downplays the achievements, skill and imagination that the ancient builders likely displayed...

The bluestones (named for their bluish tinge when wet or broken) are considerably smaller. They weigh up to 4 tons (3.6 metric tons) and are made up of about 30 types of rock that come from several locations in western Wales, a distance of about 140 miles (225 km).

Archaeologists, to put it mildly, disagree.

"[The glacier hypothesis] is looking increasingly untenable," Josh Pollard, a professor of archaeology at the University of Southampton in England, told Live Science. "We just don't find evidence of glacial deposits with big chunks of bluestone anywhere near Stonehenge. And it's inherently unlikely that Neolithic communities would have entirely picked over and removed all deposits of glacial [stones]." ...

Glacial rocks are typically scuffed up, he added. While some of the bluestones at Stonehenge -- such as the spotted dolerite -- are too hard to get scrape marks from a glacier, the rhyolites and sandstones aren't, Pollard said.

"I would think [the rhyolite] would just disintegrate, to be honest, if it was in glacial deposits," he said...

What's more, other stone monuments in the Neolithic United Kingdom do include rocks from afar, including Scotland's Ring of Brodgar and Ireland's Newgrange. Even though other monuments include only local stone, that doesn't mean exceptions don't exist, he said.
| New Controversial Idea About Stonehenge Has Archaeologists Shaking Their Heads | Laura Geggel | May 21, 2018

5 posted on 07/12/2018 4:12:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv
The idea that Stonehenge was created by a glacier is ludicrous on its face. Glaciers may move stones, but they don't cut them to size, dig spaced pits and stand them up in a circle, and stack lintel stones (ALSO precisely cut) on the standing stones.

I guess if they can believe random chemicals came together and created a encapsulated living being with the ability to find/intake/metabolize compounds for energy, sense its surroundings, move about in its surroundings, and reproduce itself precisely - if they can believe that, they can believe Stonehenge is the handiwork of a huge chunk of ice.

30 posted on 07/12/2018 5:07:38 PM PDT by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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