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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNHow Far Did Neolithic Britons Carry Stonehenge’s Most Famous Boulder?In a find that provides insights into the remarkable abilities of these ancient humans, new research studying the chemical ...
Initially, its similarities to Stonehenge had archeologists and historians assuming that Flagstones must be of a similar date ...
As well as sharing similarities with other Danish woodhenges, there is also a striking parity with a known woodhenge in ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNCould This Prehistoric Burial Site Have Influenced the Construction of Stonehenge?Researchers have found that a prehistoric burial site called Flagstones is one of the earliest known large circular ...
Archaeologists think they’ve found a 3,200-year-old mysterious stone circle that inspired Stonehenge
Dr Susan Greaney, a specialist in Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments, in Exeter’s Department of Archaeology and History, said ...
where people were burying their cremated dead in circular passage tombs at this time," she said. Although the new dates suggest that Flagstones is older than Stonehenge, Greaney thinks that ...
"Given that Stonehenge was built during the transition from Neolithic to Bronze Age, and given the high frequency of dark-skinned samples we inferred for that period ... by the time the stone ...
Archaeologists in Denmark discovered a prehistoric circular structure resembling Stonehenge, estimated to date from the Late Neolithic period around 2000 BCE, during construction work for a ...
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Were Stonehenge's Builders Guided by the Moon?“What I think may have been the case at Stonehenge—and this is what we’re interested [in exploring]—is that around the time of a major standstill, people noticed the moon rising or setting ...
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Interesting Engineering on MSNStonehenge’s older ‘sister’: Ancient monument in Dorchester’s dating stuns archaeologistsA new study has revealed that Flagstones in Dorset dates to 3,200 years BC and sheds new light on the origins of monumental architecture during the Neolithic period.
Sun rises at Stonehenge ... during this time 4,000 years ago, researchers said. Previous studies have shown that Europe underwent a substantial demographic change during this period.
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