Stonehenge, located on open chalk terrain in southern England, is identifiable but curiously unexplained. For decades, one practical question has hung over the site without being resolved. How did stones weighing hundreds of tonnes arrive here before wheels, metal tools, and written plans? A recent study done by geologists at Curtin University solidifies that disagreement. The researchers looked at small mineral grains in nearby river sediments to check if glaciers had transported the stones south during the Ice Age. The results indicate away from the ice and towards the people. The area surrounding Salisbury Plain has no chemical signs of glacial transit. Instead, sediments reflect local recycling. This lends weight to the hypothesis that Neolithic communities deliberately moved the stones over long distances on their own.
