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One Mystery of Stonehenge’s Origins Has Finally Been Solved:
For more than four centuries, archaeologists and geologists have sought to determine the geographical origins of the stones used to build Stonehenge thousands of years ago. Pinning down the source of the large blocks known as sarsens that form the bulk of the monument has proved especially elusive. Now researchers have resolved the mystery: 50 of the 52 extant sarsens at Stonehenge came from the West Woods site in the English county of Wiltshire, located 25 kilometers to the north of Stonehenge. The findings were published on Wednesday in Science Advances.
[...] The team’s breakthrough came unexpectedly in 2018, when a sample core that had been drilled from one of Stonehenge’s sarsens during a 1958 restoration project was returned to England after it spent 60 years in a private collection. The researchers were granted permission to destroy part of the core for a more detailed analysis. [...] Using two types of mass spectrometry, the team determined the levels of 22 trace elements in the core and compared them with the levels in sarsen samples from 20 different sites dotting southern England. The chemical signature of the core exactly matched that of one of the sites—West Woods, which encompasses about six square kilometers.
The finding “looks to be fairly convincing and fairly conclusive,” says Joshua Pollard, an archaeologist at the University of Southampton in England, who was not involved in the new research. “It’s a major achievement.” Located just south of the River Kennet, West Woods has often been overlooked in archaeological research, he adds.
[...] Future research will seek to uncover the route that the builders of Stonehenge used to transport the stones.
Journal Reference:
David J. Nash, T. Jake R. Ciborowski, J. Stewart Ullyott, et al. Origins of the sarsen megaliths at Stonehenge [open], Science Advances (DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc0133)
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Sunday August 02 2020, @03:01PM
This is the nicest thing anyone has ever said about me. lol.
Kindof glad someone stopped by to show you what a real person with problems looks like.
If you are a writer and no one is calling you crazy, you are probably swimming in the shallow end.
2nd "craziest" poster at Soylent?
Better notorious than unknown.
That said azumi is a horrible person who is def not for real, but you notice how i dont feel the need to dox her or try to ruin her life and just tell her shes wrong and challenge her to debate. So the divide between craziest and 2nd crazy is pretty fucking huge if you ask me, which I know you are not.
Run on sentences do not indicate insanity, but using caps incorrectly might, as demonstrated.
If I played a feynman lecture for you and didnt tell you who he was, I bet you would think he was crazy too. Never forget that in human history intelligent people have very, very often been witchunted because their intelligence is so difficult to understand by most it is indistinguishable from babble. What is odd though this isnt even an azumi thread and it is a top post....talk about out of the blue...I know I jump contexts often but this is some wild wacky stuff.
And also, if the person is sick, then they need help, and mocking them is bad juju, kicking someone when they are down, comparing yourself to a broken person to build yourself up in the eyes of others. Sadly, this is rampant.
That is why "crazy" has become one of my top 5 words we should stop using, its overuse has even necessitated the evolution of psych trolling to "take your meds schizo", as I am sure you have noticed.