Stonehenge was an ancient time-keeping system, archaeologist says
Who doesn’t love a mystery thousands of years old? New research shows how Stonehenge my have operated as a precise calendar. Making it more practical than spiritual…
However, a new study by Timothy Darvill, a professor of archaeology at Bournemouth University in the United Kingdom, has concluded that Stonehenge served as a solar calendar and identified how it may have worked.
Stonehenge is made of two types of stone: larger sarsen stones and smaller bluestone monoliths from Wales. The latter were thought to have been the first to be erected at Stonehenge 5,000 years ago, centuries before the larger sarsen stones, which came from a site much closer to the monument.
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