Experts suggest new theory over how Stonehenge was built

• Experts have developed a new theory suggesting Stonehenge 's 25-tonne sarsen stones were hauled along wooden trackways, similar to a railway , rather than rolled over timber posts.
• This theory, presented by Dr. Susan Greaney of the University of Exeter and English Heritage , is based on observations of megalith transport in Indonesia a century ago.
• A new visual image, created from laser-scan data and archaeological work, illustrates this method, along with a revised idea for hoisting stones using rubble, akin to practices on Easter Island.
• The construction of Stonehenge, which began 5,000 years ago, involved moving these massive stones 15 miles from Marlborough Downs.
• Dr. Greaney also suggests that the large number of people involved in moving the stones, evidenced by mass feasting, may have been a display of power rather than purely for efficiency.

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Stonehenge builders used wooden tracks ‘like a railway’ to transport huge stones