Stonehenge and its Environs 134
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nigelswift wrote:
You seem a tad keen to find reasons to rule out human transportation.
Isn't that what we are on about here? My noble purpose in life, just now at any rate (before moving on to something else) is to subject a rather "comfortable' piece of orthodoxy (namely the bluestone transport myth) to some critical analysis!

And I'm still waiting for somebody to come up with some convincing evidence that the bluestones (not just some of them -- all of them, from at least 20 different sources) were shipped across from Wales to Salisbury Plain by neolithic tribesmen rather then by the Irish Sea Glacier......

Critical analysis is fine but calling it a myth rather suggest you've made up your mind.

Human transport is by no means a comfortable orthodoxy. Various bits of evidence in it's favour have arisen in the past few years, as I've mentioned. And I know someone that is subjecting a scale model of a bronze age boat carrying a bluestone to tests in a tank to see how it would stand up to an ocean voyage. Human transport is a better supported hypothesis now than it used to be.