Stonehenge may have started as a giant graveyard for elite
Allison Jackson March 9, 2013 13:11
Stonehenge may have started as a giant graveyard for elite
Archeologists believe the famous Stone Age monument in Southern England may have started as a burial site for elite families.
Archeologists believe the site of Stonehenge may have been a giant graveyard for elite families about 500 years before the famous Stone Age monument we know today was built, BBC reported.
The Guardian said archeologists from across Britain examined the cremated remains of 63 individuals dug up from the site and concluded they were buried around 3,000 B.C.
“These were men, women, children, so presumably family groups,” University College London professor Mike Parker Pearson was quoted by the Associated Press as saying.
“We’d thought that maybe it was a place where a dynasty of kings was buried, but his seemed to be much more of a community, a different kind of power structure.”
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