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Stonehenge and its Altar Stone: the significance of distant stone sources
Mike Parker Pearson, Richard Bevins, Richard Bradley et al., 2025. Archaeology International.
Argues from the Scottish Altar Stone, the Welsh bluestones and the Wessex sarsens that Stonehenge's Stage 2 rebuilding around 2500 BC was a political act uniting communities across Britain.
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The "unification" reading of the monument's purpose.
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Parker Pearson, M., Bevins, R., Bradley, R., Ixer, R., Pearce, N., & Richards, C. (2025). Stonehenge and its Altar Stone: the significance of distant stone sources. Archaeology International. https://doi.org/10.14324/ai.27.1.13
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Parker Pearson, Mike et al.. “Stonehenge and its Altar Stone: the significance of distant stone sources.” Archaeology International (2025). https://doi.org/10.14324/ai.27.1.13.