Neolithic
The Altar Stone's Long Journey: Glaciers, Dogger Bank, and the Limits of Ice
A new study confirms that Stonehenge’s six-tonne Altar Stone most likely originated in Caithness, northeast Scotland — and explores whether the last ice age could have helped carry it south. The answer is partial, complicated, and deeply suggestive of a prehistoric Britain more connected than we imagined.
Read more →The Pivotal Year: Why 6000 BC Matters
Few dates in the deep human past carry the weight of 6000 BC. Standing at the threshold between the seventh and sixth millennia before the common era, this moment represents not a single event but a convergence of transformations — climatic, agricultural, social, and cultural — that reshaped human life across continents.
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