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Re:People buried at Stonehenge may have come from as far awa... by GlennS on Saturday August 04, 2018 @09:33PM (#17689236)
The people who built Stonehenge probably didn't have wheels or domesticated horses.

Also, Wales is hilly [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wales&t=ffab&iar=images&iax=images...], and there is a the choice of a either rather dangerous river [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=severn+bore&t=ffab&iar=images&iax=...] or the Irish Sea [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wales+south+coast&t=ffab&iar=image...] to get past to get from Wales to Stonehenge.

On the other hand, all that water probably helped when they had to get the stones there.

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Re:People buried at Stonehenge may have come from as far awa... by singularity2001 on Sunday August 05, 2018 @04:47AM (#17690389)
Sledges were a thing before 4000BC, the wheel became widespread by 3000BC, so at least the later structures sure had some wheel tech involved.
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Re:People buried at Stonehenge may have come from as far awa... by TheOtherHobbes on Sunday August 05, 2018 @05:30AM (#17690497)
In fact no one knows how the stones were moved. You will not find an archaeologist willing to put money down with a definitive statement - even for the sarsens, which are relatively local.

Whatever the tech used, it was beyond a Moon shot in neolithic terms.

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