Briefing Chat: The epic journey of Stonehenge’s central stone

About this episode

This episode explores the journey of Stonehenge's Altar Stone and reveals insights from fossilized faeces about ancient ecosystems.

In this episode: 00:37 Evidence that Stonehenge's Altar Stone travelled by glacier BBC Science Focus: We may have just cracked one of Stonehenge's greatest mysteries 05:44 Fossilized faeces reveal DNA from ancient ecosystem Nature: Ancient ground squirrels feasted on carcasses like ‘zombies of the Pleistocene’ Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Topics covered

• Stonehenge
• ancient ecosystems
• Pleistocene
• fossils
• glaciers
• archaeology

Keywords

• Stonehenge
• Altar Stone
• fossilized faeces
• ancient DNA
• Pleistocene
• glacier travel
• archaeological mysteries

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BBC Science Focus, Nature

Places: Stonehenge

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