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WASHINGTON (May 29) - “England’s enigmatic Stonehenge served as a burial ground from its earliest beginnings and for several hundred years thereafter, new research indicates.
Dating of cremated remains shows burials took place as early as 3000 B.C., when the first ditches around the monument were being built, researchers said Thursday.
And those burials continued for at least 500 years, when the giant stones that mark the mysterious circle were being erected, they said.
‘It’s now clear that burials were a major component of Stonehenge in all its main stages,’ said Mike Parker Pearson, archaeology professor at the University of Sheffield in England and head of the Stonehenge Riverside Archaeological Project.
In the past many archaeologists had thought that burials at Stonehenge continued for only about a century, the researchers said.”
I wonder what archaeologists thousands of years from now will think of the many graves surrounding one of our local Episcopal churches. They will conclude that “burials were a major component.”
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I found it odd that all the remains were from cremation.
To me that indicates human sacrifice, rather than just an ancient upscale crematorium.
The size and shape of Stonehenge would indicate something dealing with rituals of a high importance.