Posted on 12/12/2021 11:55:05 AM PST by SunkenCiv
update to the story:
“Professor Mike Parker Pearson, an archaeologist at University College London (UCL), suggested that the discovery of captive pig bones pointed towards the site having been used as a mass hunting grounds, perhaps something akin to a ritual...This would have seen thousands of people from across ancient Britain travel to the site with animals like pigs, to perform a mass ritual within the arc’s sphere, later gathering in a procession to walk to Stonehenge for the winter — not summer — solstice.”
so, were the pits, giant bbq/roasting pits for pigs, in the style of the Hawaiians? I can’t imagine pigs herded into a depression just to be slaughered - very noisy and bloody and a waste of foodstock when there were ‘thousands’ of pilgrims to feed.
Could prove military organization.
Soldiers - (spearmen).
NCOs - file or group leaders.
Discipline - “Dig me a hole. This deep and this big around. And no more sniffing after the chief’s daughter!”
Sounds like the winter camp for hundreds of semi-nomadic clans.
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