The Stonehenge Bluestone Debate - Glacial Transport & The Altar Stone

In this video we delve deeper into the great Stonehenge Bluestone Debate... taking a much closer look at the glacial transport theory and assessing the recent claims regarding a Scottish provenance for the altar stone...

To help with this, we have a channel first (and something we’d love to do more of in the future) an interview with an expert! Someone who's work we featured in our last video, a specialist in glacial geomorphology and a leading voice on the glacial transport theory... Brian John

Not only did he agree to sit down on camera with us, he was happy to answer all of your questions from the last video… providing great detail on an under-reported side of the story.

Brian John also shares his thoughts on the Altar Stone; although he wouldn’t say it was impossible, he agreed with authors of the new paper, that glacial transport from north east Scotland was unlikely... but goes on to question if the evidence for a Scottish provenance really stands up to scrutiny.

For those of you who have no idea who Brian John is, or only a rough idea about glacial transport, don’t worry we’ll cover all the introductions... but If your already acquainted or only clicked for an update on the Altar stone, chapters are down below...
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BRIAN JOHN
A massive thanks goes to Brian John for giving his time to take part in this video, it was a real pleasure to get the chance to sit down and ask him so many questions. He has been active in the comments section, and has a blog and a website if you want to find out more about him.
Blog - https://brian-mountainman.blogspot.com/
Website - https://www.brianjohn.co.uk/

FEATURED IN THIS VIDEO - YOUTUBE
-Clip of Richard Bevins with Altar Stone sample - 'nature video' - 'New research highlights Scottish origin for part of Stonehenge' -    • New research highlights Scottish origin fo...  
-Clip summarising Cosmogenic nuclide dating - 'American Museum of Natural History' - 'Science Bulletins: Shrinking Glaciers' -    • Science Bulletins: Shrinking Glaciers—A Ch...  
-Clips of Brian John out on expedition - 'Iliminaq' - 'East Greenland 1962' -    • East Greenland 1962  

DOCUMENTS & FURTHER READING
-A Scottish provenance for the Altar Stone of Stonehenge - https://rdcu.be/dTd6R
Peer Review File - https://static-content.springer.com/e... 07652-1/MediaObjects/41586_2024_7652_MOESM3_ESM.pdf
-NEWER ALTAR STONE ARTICLE - Was the Stonehenge Altar Stone from Orkney? - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... -Images and diagrams - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ma... -Linking derived debitage to the Stonehenge Altar Stone using portable X-ray fluorescence analysis - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa...

VIDEO CHAPTERS
00:00 Summary
2:44 Channel Intro
3:25 Getting The Interview
5:00 Brian John's Background
12:05 Glacial Transport
28:50 The Altar Stone
43:00 Human Transport
49:29 A Compromise?
53:20 Update & Outro
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