New analysis of the remains of Neolithic people buried at Stonehenge suggests many did not live anywhere near the prehistoric monument, according to a study in Nature Scientific Reports.
After a century of research into Stonehenge’s construction, we still know little about the people who lived and died there. But now, with a fresh method for obtaining biological information from cremated remains, scientists are re-envisioning the connection between our ancestors and one of the world’s most iconic ancient sites.
Their findings show that some of the individuals interred at Stonehenge, in Wessex on the southern edge of England, actually spent their last years living in distant west Wales. Scholars have long known that the bluestones marking the monument’s earliest stages were quarried from the Preseli Mountains in that region, but this study provides evidence of greater movement between the two areas as long as 5,000 years ago.“That begins to tells ...
