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Re:A Scottish Provenance for the Altar Stone of Stonehenge by defrost on Saturday August 17, 2024 @05:00AM (#41272921)
> I asked Claude to analyze the paper and speculate a route and it

utterly failed to mention glacial erratics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_erratic

https://www.cyark.org/projects/okotoks-erratic/overview

Mind you, so did every other HN commentator and it's something that rarely comes up when forums speculate on the transport of stones in the UK for ancient monuments.

It's easier to stack up the "weird non local" stones dropped at the end of a valley after a glacial retreat than it is to transit them ~1,000 km without a crane and a truck.

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