A Single Cow Tooth Just Revealed a Major Clue About Stonehenge’s Origins
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The story of the construction of Stonehenge has become clearer thanks to a cow tooth that has revealed new prehistoric links to Wales.
It's been 101 years since a cow's jawbone with a molar, dated between 2995 and 2900 BC, was discovered at Stonehenge. New analysis of the tooth has supported the theory that cows or oxen could have carried the huge stones to the Salisbury Plain in Wales.
The tooth, which was part of the jawbone of a cow whose remains were found in 1924 near the south entrance to Stonehenge.


The analysis of a cow's tooth, found at the southern entrance of Stonehenge and dating back to the beginnings of the monument, between 2.995 and 2,900 BC, has helped to decipher the mysteries of its construction, according to the British Geological Survey (BGS), responsible for the research.
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