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Stonehenge, a gargantuan stone group of stone circles, quarried hundreds of miles away. It just happens to be set on the path of the sun and an unnerving amount of dead people. For thousands of years, people have wondered why it was built. A discovery of small circular rocks, all the same size, around Stonehenge may help us figure out how those ton sized blocks of rock got there. The fallen portions of Stonehenge and modern technology may lead us to the last question we ask, the building and lifting of stonehenge.
The first question to answer is why. People have wondered why the Beaker put up these colossal stones up in the first place. Researchers must look at how and when each ring of stones were built. In the first phase (2950-2900 BCE), the builders made the circular bank outlying …show more content…

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