Stonehenge was used as a cemetery from the beginning
May 30, 2008
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Though the stones were only erected in 2500 B.C. there are evidences of burials since 3000 B.C.
It seems like the local was used to only bury elements of one family being the first one at 3000 B.C. and then as the family gown up more and more bodies were then buried afterwards.
At the time bodies used to be cremated and methods of rating how old were those cremated bones just came to the access of researchers allowing the recent dating of the remains found at Stonehenge.
British archaeologists say it probably was a cemetery for the ruling dynasty responsible for erecting Stonehenge.
The answer to why researchers found up to 240 people remains is because Stonehenge staged as burial place for several generations of the same single elite family. The clue comes from the small number of burials in the earliest period and the larger numbers in the later centuries, as offspring would have multiplied said Andrew Chamberlain, Sheffield archaeologist.
The issue of site use,orientation and placement are absent from the report as posted .Life both present and past is made up of a series of snapahots.A future analysis of our present day environment would show “Key Buildings/Utilities/and Grave yards”.The symbols of society both past and present do not on the surface display or reflect the blood/tissue and breath of the society within which it is sustained.
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So,, they just NOW figured it out. I thought that was rather obvious already.
Amazing how fast archaeological research is advancing. The last 20 years alone we have learned so much.
Another piece of a puzzle substantiated
The media are consistently failing to draw distinctions between events and material that pre-date the iconic stone monument and the period following its construction. It is doing little to help people understand what is, and is not associated with the monument that most people understand as ‘Stonehenge’. Of course there is a protracted period of activity on the site (around 500 years) leading up to the early bluestone monument, followed shortly after by the sarsen structure, and thereafter almost a thousand years of (known) activity. The problem is that everything (you might say every man, dog and his bone) is being thrown into the ‘Stonehenge equation’, the result is confusion and an increasing proliferation of archaeologically unverifiable theories.