Stonehenge mystery SOLVED: Scientists uncover origin of ancient stone monoliths

And the majority of modern thinkers support the thought they were invented independently in various regions in and around Europe.

The major hurdle, Dr Schulz Paulsson, has been parsing the mounds of archaeological data to find reliable dates for the 35,000 stones , from henges, buildings and tombs.

Dr Schulz Paulsson, a prehistoric archaeologist at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and the study’s sole author: “Everyone told me, ‘You’re crazy, it can’t be done,’ but I decided to do it anyway.”

The archaeologist searched through radiocarbon dating data nearly 2,500 ancient sites across the continent to reconstruct a prehistoric archaeological timeline.

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