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  Silbury Hill

  Why did Neolithic communities commit an estimated four million hours of labor to raising the largest artificial mound in prehistoric Europe when centuries of tunneling have found no burial, chamber, or treasure inside it?

  c. 2470–2350 BCE (Late Neolithic) · Avebury, Wiltshire, EnglandAdded July 2026
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  Stonehenge

  How did people without wheeled transport, draft animals, or metal tools quarry, move, and precisely erect stones weighing up to 30 tonnes from as far as Wales and Scotland, and what was the monument actually for?

  c. 3000-1600 BCE (Neolithic to Bronze Age) · Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, EnglandAdded July 2026