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Megalith quarries for Stonehenge's bluestones
Mike Parker Pearson, Josh Pollard, Colin Richards et al., 2019. Antiquity.
The Carn Goedog and Craig Rhos-y-felin quarries together: extraction by wedging along natural joints, the quarrying dated to about 3400–3000 BC, and the inference that the stones were moved overland to Salisbury Plain.
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Parker Pearson, M., Pollard, J., Richards, C., Welham, K., Casswell, C., French, C., Schlee, D., Shaw, D., Simmons, E., Stanford, A., Bevins, R., & Ixer, R. (2019). Megalith quarries for Stonehenge's bluestones. Antiquity. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.111
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Parker Pearson, Mike et al.. “Megalith quarries for Stonehenge's bluestones.” Antiquity (2019). https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.111.