Stonehenge: Older than Thought?

Excavations carried out at Stonehenge earlier this year indicate that the famous stones may have been erected 500 years earlier than currently believed, albeit in different positions. The current orthodoxy holds that the site was first used around 3100 BCE, and the stones first erected c. 2500 BCE. The recent dig by the Stonehenge Riverside Project argues that the “Blue” stones were first put up c.3000 BCE in a ring, in a series of holes called the Aubrey Holes, and then moved c. 2300 BCE. The archaeologists of the recent dig also argue the site was originally created for burial purposes.