“Stories of Stonehenge”

The creation of Stonehenge bridges the Neolithic Period into the Bronze Age, marking a point in history where human beings developed farming, and began to settle into communities. Building Stonehenge would have established a fixed place in the landscape, where they could gather together and track the movement of the stars above. The people who built this did not yet have the technology of the wheel, and yet--stones weighing several tons a piece were somehow transported across miles of distance to the monument’s location. One question pervades all of the centuries since--How? How did they move these stones into place? And furthermore...Why?