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ArticleBody:One of the many archaeological mysteries at Britain’s Stonehenge has been solved. The site’s six-ton Altar Stone hails from over 400 miles north in Scotland, not from Wales or other closer areas of southern England as scientists previously thought. This trek points to the possibility that more advanced transportation methods and societal organization existed here about 5,000 years ago. The findings are described in a study published August 14 in the journal Nature.
Professor Nick Pearce, Aberystwyth University. Finding chemical fingerprints To learn more, a team from the United Kingdom sent fragments across the globe to Curtin University in Australia. Researchers from the Timescales of Mineral Systems Group within Curtin’s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences looked for chemical fingerprints within the grains to determine their age and chemical makeup. In turn, this can tell scientists where the stone originated.
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