England's Stonehenge was erected in Wales first

doi:10.1126/science.371.6531.765

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DOI	10.1126/science.371.6531.765
	England's Stonehenge was erected in Wales first
	Andrew Curry
	2021-02-19
发表期刊	Science
出版年	2021
英文摘要	Around 3200 B.C.E., farmers in Wales's Preseli Hills built a great monument: They carved columns of dolerite, or bluestone, from a nearby quarry, then thrust them upright in a circle aligned with the Sun. Exactly what the circle meant to them remains a mystery. But new research reveals that several centuries later, their descendants took down many of the giant stones and hauled them 200 kilometers to the Salisbury Plain. There, they created what is still the world's most iconic prehistoric stone monument: Stonehenge. The paper presents a “brilliant hypothesis” and “a very good argument Stonehenge is a dismantled stone circle from Wales,” says Alison Sheridan, a curator emerita at the National Museum of Scotland. Researchers had already traced Stonehenge's bluestones to Wales and even found where they were quarried. But activity at the quarries ended several centuries before the earliest construction at Stonehenge. Then in 2017 and 2018, researchers led by University College London archaeologist Michael Parker Pearson excavated parts of an ancient monument in Wales called Waun Mawn, where a handful of toppled bluestones form a partial circle. The team found socket-shaped pits that, with the fallen bluestones, sketched out a circle 110 meters across—the same size as the outer earthen ditch of Stonehenge's original layout. As at Stonehenge, the circle's entrance was oriented to sunrise on the midsummer solstice. Dating suggested the stones were erected between 3400 and 3200 B.C.E. and removed 300 or 400 years later, around when Stonehenge was first built, the team reported this week in Antiquity . “We're quite confident the reason they come down is they've gone to Stonehenge,” Parker Pearson says. “They're bringing ancestral symbols as an act of unification.”
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