[Palter]

Club Med, ping.

[Frantzie]

Most likely Roman. They did not surrender to Islam like the English.

[Del Rapier]

People in the ancient world traveled in an age without passports or currency exchanges.

It shouldn’t be that surprising.

[bunkerhill7]

Chemical tests on fabric from an ancient burial near Stonehenge indicate that the person in the grave grew up around the Mediterranean Sea due to spaghetti sauce residue
found on his shirt.

[allmendream]

Thor Heyerdahl has long surmised that “stone age” man was much more well traveled and an accomplished seaman than anybody is STILL willing to give them credit for.

It seems the evidence keeps piling up.

To me it seems that if every possibly human habitable island on the planet pretty much has and has had human habitation for long ages - people got around.

In the famous case of the mutiny on the Bounty, their hope was a small island that some English sailor thought he saw once but wasn't drawn on any maps. They got there and damned if there were not people already on it!

[Tax-chick]

The conclusions come from analysis of different forms of the elements oxygen and strontium in his tooth enamel.

Yeah, maybe ...

The face that a person buried in the Mediterranean basin somewhere had such-and-such in his teeth does not prove that people who lived and died in other areas of the world did not also have such-and-such in their teeth.

The amber necklace clearly indicates trade with continental Europe, but the origin of the person is a lot of guesswork.

[SunkenCiv]

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[ApplegateRanch]

Analysis on a previous skeleton found near Stonehenge showed that that person was also a migrant to the area.

What this tells me is that it was very dangerous to be tourist ca 3550 years ago.

Question: did the BBC's Paul Rincon really mean '3550 years ago'; or did he hear, "3,550 years Before Present," and assume it was the same as 3550 years ago? It may sound trivial, but it's not when I'm programming a destination in my time machine.

[Bernard Marx]

Wearing a necklace? Maybe he was a Medrosexual.

[Renfield]

I direct all of you to the book Uriel's Machine: Uncovering the Secrets of Stonehenge, Noah's Flood, and the Dawn of Civilization, by Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas. The authors make a very convincing argument that civilization started, not in Mesopotamia, as current wisdom holds, but in the British Isles and adjacent western Atlantic areas; and that it spread outward from there. They show that the megalithic monuments of the British Isles were actually sophisticated teaching instruments, and that there were learning centers in various parts of Britain and Ireland that attracted seekers and students from all over the "known" (i.e., Western) world back in the third millenium BC. The boy mentioned in the post may have been one of those. Great book!

http://www.amazon.com/Uriels-Machine-Uncovering-Stonehenge-Civilization/dp/193141274X

[Beowulf9]

The figure the boy to be about the age of 15. Wonder what he represented or did to be considered so important a figure that he was buried at Stonehenge?

[wildbill]

Maybe the natives kidnapped foreigners, took them to the alter, and performed gruesome sacrificial rites on them before burying them.

Or maybe not. Could be they were sightseeing and caught Druid’s Revenge and died.

Hard to figure out why buried bodies show up that aren’t native to that lonesome area.