eprintid: 10163289
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creators_name: Parker Pearson, M
creators_name: Bevins, R
creators_name: Pearce, N
creators_name: Ixer, R
creators_name: Pollard, J
creators_name: Richards, C
creators_name: Welham, K
title: Reconstructing extraction techniques at Stonehenge's bluestone megalith quarries in the Preseli hills of west Wales
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B03
divisions: C03
divisions: F31
divisions: K74
keywords: Megalith quarries, Dolerite, Rhyolite, Stonehenge, Mynydd Preseli, Neolithic
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abstract: Excavations at two of the sources of Stonehenge's bluestones in Mynydd Preseli, west Wales, have led to the discovery of stone tools associated with megalith quarrying in the final centuries of the fourth millennium BC, shortly before the suspected date of the bluestones’ erection at Stonehenge, 240 km away. Among the most plentiful of these tools are stone wedges, three of which were found in situ at the rhyolite bluestone quarry of Craig Rhos-y-felin. Two of these were positioned in the joints of a rhyolite pillar adjacent to a recess left by a removed pillar. Geochemical analysis reveals that these and the third wedge are of compositions different to the rock on either side of the cracks into which they had been driven, confirming their identification as quarrying tools. This research sheds new light on the methods used to extract the stones for Stonehenge.
date: 2022-12
date_type: published
publisher: Elsevier BV
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103697
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1990481
doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103697
lyricists_name: Parker Pearson, Michael
lyricists_id: MPARK87
actors_name: Parker Pearson, Michael
actors_id: MPARK87
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
volume: 46
article_number: 103697
citation:        Parker Pearson, M;    Bevins, R;    Pearce, N;    Ixer, R;    Pollard, J;    Richards, C;    Welham, K;      (2022)    Reconstructing extraction techniques at Stonehenge's bluestone megalith quarries in the Preseli hills of west Wales.                   Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports , 46     , Article 103697.  10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103697 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103697>.       Green open access   
 
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