Posted on 08/03/2018 12:19:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Researchers have shown that cremated humans at Stonehenge were from the same region of Wales as the stones used in construction.
The key innovation was finding that high temperatures of cremation can crystallise a skull, locking in the chemical signal of its origin.
The first long-term residents of Stonehenge, along with the first stones, arrived about 5,000 years ago.
While it is already known that the "bluestones" that were first used to build Stonehenge were transported from 150 miles (240 km) away in modern-day Pembrokeshire, almost nothing is known about the people involved.
The scientists' work shows that both people and materials were moving between the regions and that, for some of these people, the move was permanent.
When their lives ended, their cremated remains were placed under the ancient monument in what is now Wiltshire.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
I read it as well, a few years after it was published, heard about it via some show, similar to "In Search Of...", was prepared to be bowled over, wound up being unimpressed, and basically highly skeptical of claims of archaeoastronomy in general.
Well, let’s face it, in the sixties there was not much to read on Stonehenge.
They didn’t know anything.
We’re in a Renaissance on Stonehenge nowadays :)
As for reading and being skeptical, yes. Found it hard to believe.
We are!
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