stonehenge

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/12/2021
  

  Was Stonehenge a ‘Secondhand’ Monument?

  An archaeology paper recently published points to an excavated circle of stones in Wales as the possible original site of Stonehenge. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/30/2020
  

  Campaigners Launch Legal Challenge Over Stonehenge Road Tunnel

  A plan to tunnel underneath the site of Stonehenge to expand a British highway is controversial and reflects different understandings of preservation. 

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• 7/28/19
  

  Is Stonehenge a Tourist Rip-Off?

  by Ken West

  If Stonehenge is to be restored to its rightful heritage then it must be reengaged with the River Avon and its tribal lands. Only then can we interpret the astounding achievement of these prehistoric people.   

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• SOURCE: BBC
  2-8-18
  

  Stonehenge A303 tunnel plans will 'protect and enhance' monument

  Opponents have said the tunnel could destroy archaeological treasures and scar the landscape irreparably.

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• SOURCE: The New Historian
  5-31-16
  

  Archaeologists: Stonehenge Not So Hard to Build After All

  A new experiment has shown that the difficulty of moving the stones from Wales to Wiltshire wasn’t nearly as high as everyone thinks.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  2-7-16
  

  Researchers Find More Women Buried At Stonehenge Than Men

  "As far as the burials go, women were as prominent there as men."

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  12-8-15
  

  Stonehenge May Have Been Built Somewhere Else First, Then Moved

  The new finding, published on Monday in the journal Antiquity, traces the bluestones -- or the smaller stones used at the 5,000-year-old monument -- to two quarries in Wales.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-9-15
  

  Stonehenge Begins to Yield Its Secrets

  Discoveries in the past decade have revealed more about the people for whom Stonehenge and nearby monuments held great meaning.

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  9-7-15
  

  Archaeologists discover huge ritual monument near Britain's Stonehenge

  Scientists believe the estimated 90 enormous stone monoliths or "superhenge" may have been used for religious rites or solstice rituals.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  12-19-14
  

  New Stonehenge Discovery Hailed As 'Most Important In 60 Years'

  Archaeologists studying Stonehenge and its environs say they've unearthed the remnants of an untouched, ancient encampment that dates back 6,000 years--a find that could rewrite British prehistory.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  9-2-14
  

  Happy Accident With Garden Hose Leads To 'Really Significant' Stonehenge Discovery

  A prolonged drought has revealed that the mysterious monument's ancient stones, which currently arc in a semicircle, likely once formed a complete circle.

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• SOURCE: New Scientist
  1-3-14
  

  Reconstruction gives Stonehenge man a face

  Forensic analysis of a prehistoric skull gives the UK's most iconic monument a human face.

• SOURCE: Telegraph (UK)
  4-19-13
  

  Stonehenge occupied 5,000 years earlier than previously thought

  Excavation of a site just a mile from the stone structure provided what researchers claim is the first firm evidence of continuous occupation from as early as 7,500BC.Earlier evidence had suggested that humans were present at the site, known as Vespasian's Camp, around 7,500BC but there were no signs anyone had lived there until as late as 2,500BC.By carbon-dating materials found at the site, the archaeologists identified a semi-permanent settlement which was occupied from 7,500 to 4,700BC, with evidence that people were present during every millennium in between....

• SOURCE: Telegraph (UK)
  3-9-13
  

  Stonehenge was product of first 'team building exercise'

  Stonehenge may have been the result of the world's first team-building exercise which unified the people of ancient Britain, according to researchers.The vast stone structure has long been the subject of the debate among historians, who have variously described it as a pagan temple, or an astronomical calendar or observatory.Now experts claim the monument was built as part of an annual winter solstice ritual which resembled "Glastonbury festival and a motorway building scheme at the same time".Researchers from University College London said as many as 4,000 people may have gathered at the site each year, at a time when the entire population numbered only tens of thousands....

• SOURCE: Guardian
  2-19-13
  

  Will the study of archaeology soon become a thing of the past?

  Finding Richard III (on the premises of Leicester social services no less) is testament to the ingenuity of archaeologists. Weaving together findings from historical analysis of texts with scientific analysis of the skeleton and the site, they have made an overwhelming case that these are the remains of the king....