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A recent study revealed in 2024 that the ancient Neolithic monument of Stonehenge in the United Kingdom was built to unite ancient farming communities.
According to British publications, this has been a decisive year to obtain more information about the creation of this famous site.
In light of this research, Mike Parker Pearson, professor of late British prehistory at University College London, states that the aforementioned monument may have been the result of the first efforts to unite farmers and their communities in the British Isles during a time of social change.
The stones could have been a gift or have meant a political alliance, says the specialist.
“Stonehenge stands out for being a material and monumental microcosm of the entire British Isles,” according to Parker Pearson in a new study just published in the journal International Archaeology.
Experts discovered that the six-ton ??central stone of the Stonehenge altar could have come from more than 450 miles away, in Scotland.
It was previously known that the sarsen stones came from 16 miles away from the site, in what is now the British town of Marlborough, and that the smaller bluestones were brought from 125 miles away, from the Preseli Hills in what is now Wales.
Stonehenge, Avebury and associated sites were inscribed by UNESCO on the World Heritage List in 1986.
It was one of the first seven sites nominated by the United Kingdom. (Text and photo: PL)
