Stonehenge (TRIH ep 199)
2,500 BCE · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview archaeologist and author Mike Pitts about Stonehenge’s chronology, construction and meanings. Pitts outlines an extended sequence of activity beginning with a blue‑stone circle around 3,200 BC, burial activity over centuries, and a dramatic reworking of the site c. 2,500 BC when large sarsen megaliths were brought in. He rejects glacial transport for the bluestones, arguing for human movement by sledges and boats, and stresses the social and p...
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 2500 BCE
- Great Pyramid of Giza (2560 BCE)
- Old Kingdom of Egypt (2686 BCE)
- Stonehenge (2500 BCE)
- Akkadian Empire under Sargon (2334 BCE)
- Mohenjo-daro at its peak (2500 BCE)
- Stonehenge sarsen circle erected (2500 BCE)
- Indus Valley Civilization at peak (2500 BCE)
- Sargon of Akkad (2334 BCE)
- Djoser's Step Pyramid built (2650 BCE)
- First Dynasty of Ur (2600 BCE)