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A 4,500-Year-Old Neolithic Hall Replica Rises at Stonehenge as Archaeologists and Volunteers Build With Prehistoric Tools and Techniques
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- Christian Thorsberg | Daily Correspondent
- Commissioned by English Heritage, the charity that manages hundreds of cultural sites around England, the new 23-foot-tall Kusuma Neolithic Hall was built with a painstakingly accurate nod to the past.
- Kusuma Neolithic Hall at Stonehenge by Horizon Aerial Insight / English Heritage on Sketchfab
Christian Thorsberg | Daily Correspondent
Add as preferred source English Heritage volunteers finish work on a brand-new reconstruction of a 4,500-year-old Neolithic hall near Stonehenge. English Heritage Visitors to Stonehenge this summer will have the chance to experience a unique slice of prehistoric life thanks to the reconstruction of a 4,500-year-old building that scholars think once stood nearby the famed circle.
Commissioned by English Heritage, the charity that manages hundreds of cultural sites around England, the new 23-foot-tall Kusuma Neolithic Hall was built with a painstakingly accurate nod to the past. Materials for the new structure were sourced locally and chosen based on what historians and archaeologists know was available millennia ago.