[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 06/13/2006. Thanks billorites.

Here's a sort of update, thanks Covenantor!

• Why Stonehenge's bluestones 'were moved from Wales by glaciers NOT prehistoric people'

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[SteveH]

Please allow me to attempt to re-phrase the current proposition:

* the earlier archaeologists supposed that the bluestones came from Preseli Hills (in western Wales, across the Bristol Channel from the Salisbury Plain)

* the highest current elevation of the Preseli Hills is 1008’

* the new geological theory is that the bluestones were (largely, at any rate) moved from Preseli to somewhere close to or not very far from Salisbury Plain by glaciers during an ice age

* the earliest Ice Age was the Huronian Ice Age (2.4 to 2.1 billion years ago)

* the Preseli Hills could have been much higher than 1008’ 2.4 to 2.1 billion years ago

the article does not seem to say, but i think it might be not unreasonable to presume, that the new theory is that the bluestones were deposited on the peninsula on which the Salisbury Plain is located by ancient glaciers, thus obviating the need for boat transport of the bluestones across the Bristol Channel by neolithic people

I may well have missed or misunderstood something, and would welcome any corrections or clarifications (tia).