The tantalizing mysteries of Stonehenge may have come one step closer toward being solved. New radiocarbon dates of human cremation burials there indicate that Stonehenge was used as a cemetery from its inception just after 3,000 BC until well after

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Surprise at Stonehenge! Wizards and aliens aside, actual scientists don't have much to say about Stonehenge--the ancient ring of rocks in Amesbury, England--that hasn't been said. That is, until now. Just recently a four-thousand-year old gravesite w

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-It begins to give us some insight into how the wider landscape was used at the time that Stonehenge was developing into the monument you see today.Like many of the ceremonial shrines located by the Hidden Landscapes Project, Stonehenge also began it

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This spiritual ambition and mastery of nature could be fundamental to the creation of Stonehenge. This is clearly the best view we ever have of Stonehenge from above. You can see the other parts of the monument, things like the ditch, which run aroun

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The challenge of discovering lost monuments and vacant space around the stone circle was one of the Hidden Landscapes projects. It's called Objectives. Sector after sector was scanned, but nothing was detected. Finally, less than a kilometre to the n

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Archaeologist S* Carson has investigated the significance of megalith to prehistoric peoples. -You can commemorate anncestors too, with a standing stone. You can also use them to show a person's change of status and that person's ability to mobilize

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-The stones had to be brought from some distance that some large stones, and so these were important ** burial places that brought community together. The monumental nature of these stones symbolized a new level of collective endeavour and cultural a

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When the positions of the pits were computer modeled against the movement of the sun, the true importance became clear. The calculation showed amid the summers day, the eastern pits alignment with sunrise and western pits alignment with sunset, inter

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Crikeley Hill is just one of a number of violent clashes in soutnern Britain. It was a period of instablility that seems to have brought monument building in this area to a standstill. Excavated skulls from the period provided an insight into the sav

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-At the heart of the Stonehenge, question what is still at hand, is the Cursus. If we can't understand how that fix together. We can't understand the landscape.Just to solve the puzzle of the Cursus, the Hidden Landscapes Project focused their survey

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As in the modern surgery, you woud cut a flap of the scalp and you would fold it back. The forensic analysis revealed an unexpectedly advaned grasp of haman anatomy. So as you are cutting through the outer plate, you can feel it because it's hard, sl

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It consists of rings of circulated ditches with gaps in them. These gaps are the causeways, terms the name of cause but enclosure. Structure like Robbinhood Ball, brought with them the Neolithic concept dividing up the land. These monuments represent

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Without the nearby Long Burrows added to the map, this is how the area looked, 6000 years ago. The arrival of the Neolithic culture from Europe, reaffirms the landscapes sacred status. Stonehenge is a unique landscape. It capsulates how early societi

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Well, how we depict out the whole thing? This monument starts to become sense. You see this full court with palace side wall and this was the place where they prepared the dead for burial. Bones from excavated Long Burrows tell us new funeral practic

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-Crickley Hill gives us a completely new picture of the scale of violence in prehistoric Britain. It's really the first time that we see evidence for warfare between sub-communities or even groups of communities on a completely different scale to wha

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The megaliths of Stonehenge are Britons most investigated monument. Yet despite centuries of scrutiny, excavations and theories, the big question remain. What were its origins? How did it evolve over thousands of years and which forces of nature and

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Recently at a site only two kilomtres to the southeast, archaeologists have unearthed the first traces of people living in the same period. It's a find that may finally answer why stonehenges located where it is. Here is the section through one of th

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It would be a brilliant place for hunt together as to hides and observe the movements of these huge animals. Topographical scans have revealed the contours of this ancient landscape, features that mesolithic kind togetherness could exploit. Where the

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We are in a really extraordinary place here. I mean this is almost like a time capsule. There is very little landscape change extraordinarily from *. So it is a special place. The unexpected discovery of a rare and actual phenomenon, may also explain

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Then, around 8200 years ago, climate change had dramatic impact on the destiny of Stonehenge landscape. As the last ice age thawed, rising melt waters engulfed the territory known as Dogland and Britain became an island. Cut off from continental infl

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