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Article: Burials held at Stonehenge for hundreds of years
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- May 30, 2008
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WASHINGTON - The mysterious circular stone monument at Stonehenge
was a "domain of the dead," researchers said Thursday, a burial
ground downriver from a separate circle of wooden pillars that
marked the "domain of the living."
The researchers studying England's famous circle of standing
stones reported that the enigmatic structure served as a burial
place from its beginning, possibly for a single prominent family.
The first radiocarbon dating for remains at Stonehenge show
cremated burials there as early as 3000 B.C. and continuing for at
least 500 years, said Mike Parker Pearson of England's University of
Sheffield.
The continuing research also uncovered an ancient village at
nearby ...