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- Title
Who was buried at Stonehenge?
- Authors
Parker, Mike; Chamberlalin, Andrew; Jay, Mandy; Marshall, Peter; Pollard, Josh; Richards, Colin; Thomas, Julian; Tilley, Chris; Welham, Kate
- Abstract
Stonehenge continues to surprise us. In this new study of the twentieth-century excavations, together with the precise radiocarbon dating that is now possible, the authors propose that the site started life in the early third millennium cal BC as a cremation cemetery within a circle of upright bluestones. Britain's most famous monument may therefore have been founded as the burial place of a leading family, possibly from Wales.
- Subjects
STONEHENGE (England); ENGLAND; NEOLITHIC Period; ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations; ENGLISH civilization; CEMETERIES; ARCHAEOLOGY; BRITISH history to 1066
- Publication
Antiquity, 2009, Vol 83, Issue 319, p23
- ISSN
0003-598X
- Publication type
Article