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Article: Grave matters as Stonehenge secrets revealed
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- Yorkshire Post
- Article date:
- May 30, 2008
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DISCOVERING the history of Stonehenge has long been a task to vex
even the most committed archaeologist.
Poorly-kept excavation records and the effects of glaciation and
animals on the landscape has meant that scientists have had
difficulty researching the earliest history of the world-famous
monument.
However, archaeologists at Sheffield University have now
unearthed new evidence that throws more light on Stonehenge's
mysterious past.
Professors Mike Parker Pearson and Andrew Chamberlain have
revealed new radiocarbon dates of human cremation burials that
suggests the monument was in use as a cemetery from its inception
just after 3000 BC - 300 years earlier than previously thought.
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