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Article: Neolithic site found near England's Stonehenge
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- China Daily
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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Evidence of a large settlement full of houses dating back to 2,600
BC has been discovered near the ancient stone monument of Stonehenge
in southwest England, scientists said on Tuesday.
They suspect inhabitants of the houses, forming the largest
Neolithic village ever found in Britain, built the stone circle at
Stonehenge generally thought to have been a temple, burial ground or
an astronomy site between 3,000 and 1,600 BC.
"We found the remains of eight houses," Mike Parker Pearson, a
professor of archaeology at Sheffield University, said in a
teleconference to announce the discovery.
"We think they are part of a much larger settlement. I suspect we
can identify 25 likely house sites. My ...