European anthropic megalithic transport

Proven anthropic (human) transport of architectural stone in Neolithic and Chalcolithic Europe — each line a published petrographic or quarry match, not glacial delivery or local outcrop siting.

Arrow weight scales with published distance. Click a line, point, or gazetteer row. v0.4.10 · repo · full gazetteer

Minimum distance shown: 0.5 km

Floor is 0.5 km — shorter moves are local outcrop use / siting on the rock, which this gazetteer does not list.

Region Evidence Not Stonehenge

Hides the four Salisbury Plain hauls so the rest of Europe can be read.

Ice margins (schematic) BIIS / Devensian LGM southern margin Anglian evidence (Finchley / E Anglia only) Mountain ice (Pyrenees, Massif Central, Alps)

Not ice-flow routes. Ireland / Orkney were under the BIIS at the LGM — northern hauls are post-glacial. Salisbury Plain and Iberian / Armorican sites sit south of ice-sheet cover. Anglian line = Finchley/East Anglia only (SW left blank). Schematic; see data/ice-extents.geojson.

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20–200 km

<20 km

monument source haul direction

Distance histogram

Count of hauls by km band (Patton: fat local peak, thin long tail). Tap a bar to show only that band.

Schematic flows, not reconstructed routes. Sector centroids are approximate.