[Geology2] Geologists pinpoint near exact source of some of Stonehenge's stones

Geologists pinpoint near exact source of some of Stonehenge's stones
PhysOrg.com [USA], December 20, 2011

Robert Ixer and Richard Bevins, British geologists, after nine months of
tedious research, have pinpointed the place from which some of the
stones that make up Stonehenge were quarried. The stones in question,
the so-named bluestones, the smaller kind used in the inner circle at
Stonehenge, came from a sixty five meter long outcropping called Craig
Rhos-y-Felin, which is close to the town of Pont Saeson in the north
part of Pembrokeshire, in Wales; a site some one hundred and sixty miles
from Stonehenge. The question now is, did the early Neolithic people who
built Stonehenge bring them to the site over 5000 years ago, or was it
due to natural causes, such as glacial movement?

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-geologists-exact-source-stonehenge-stones.html

Also:

Take a virtual look at Neolithic Stonehenge
Salisbury Journal [UK], 22nd December 2011

ARCHAEOLOGISTS from Bournemouth University have created a virtual map of
Neolithic Stonehenge. Google Under-the-Earth: Seeing Beneath Stonehenge,
is the first computer application of its kind to transport users around
a virtual prehistoric landscape to explore Stonehenge. It was developed
using new field data gathered during investigations by teams from the
universities of Sheffield, Manchester, Bristol, Southampton and London
as part of the Stonehenge Riverside Project. Google Under-the-Earth
works by adding layers of archaeological information to Google Earth
technology.

http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/9435288.Take_a_virtual_look_at_Neolithic_Stonehenge/

Seeing Beneath Stonehenge:
http://blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk/seeing-beneath-stonehenge/

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