Stonehenge Wasn't the First 'Second-Hand' Prehistoric Monument

Apparently a lot of monuments were built on top of other monuments.

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By Mike Parker Pearson, University College London
Dec 12, 2015 1:59 AMApr 18, 2020 9:20 PM
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Stonehenge. (Credit: Fulcanelli/Shutterstock)

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I led the team of researchers that discovered that Stonehenge was most likely to have been originally built in Pembrokeshire, Wales, before it was taken apart and transported some 180 miles to Wiltshire, England. It may sound like an impossible task without modern technology, but it wouldn’t have been the first time prehistoric Europeans managed to move a monument. Archaeologists are increasingly discovering megaliths across the continent — albeit a small number so far — that were previously put up in earlier monuments.

Other ‘Second-Hand’ Monuments

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