So a 6 tonne stone was transported from Scotland to Stonehenge 5,000 years ago

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Stonehenge mystery deepens as altar traced to Scotland

A central stone of the famous Stonehenge monument in southwest England came from 750 kilometres away in northeast Scotland, surprised scientists said Wednesday, solving one mystery but raising another: how did its prehistoric builders move the huge slab so far?Another option was that the...
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Pretty impressive when you think of all the various topography they would have to overcome if it was just pushed along on log rollers and how did they manage to get it across rivers, they must have surely come across some rivers and their bridge building skills would surely not be advanced enough to hold 6 tonne stones, to push it 750km they must have been ripped to get it up the hills, also how did they know where to push it to ? They wouldn't have a map or roads to follow so there must be some trial & error in the journey where they got lost on the way ?
 
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I do find it fascinating how far the cultural / trade networks must have stretched back then. Wish we knew more about Neolithic Britain and the stories of people that lived back then. Sadly so much lost to the mists of time, but amazing that we're still finding out new things like this.
 
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It's only 6 tonnes.
google says 75 people could lift it


Might be a bit of a challenge but it's not like people would have had much to do 5000 years ago.

ropes been around for 25,000 years you could probably move it fairly easily with ropes and pulleys.


googling suggests over 3500 years ago people had trade ships carrying 250- 500 tonnes.

moving a 6tone stone is no great achievement
 
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We easily mistake lack of sophisiticated economy for lack of sophistication overall. They would have survived the previous 9,000 years in Britain largely cut off from Continental Europe as the sea levels rose. They deforested the highlands and built substantial structures. For most of the last 6,000 years human evolution has been driven by our tolerance to disease from living in close proximity and our tolerance to wheat and dairy. They were probably more intelligent than us they just didn't have such a highly specialised economy.
 
It raises all sorts of interesting questions about communication between people throughout Britain at the time.

What was so special about the Scottish site that made it worthwhile to do that?
 
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