Older than believed, Stonehenge was a cremation cemetry, not healing centre

October 10, 2008

New discoveries at Stonehenge suggest its stones were erected in 3,000 BC -- - almost 500 years earlier than originally thought -- and used for cremation burial throughout their history and not for healing.

According to Mike Pitts, one of the authors of the study and editor of British Archaelogy, the latest evidence overturned previous theory over Stonehenge, revealing that the monument was celebrating death rather than life.

"Stonehenge was always about death and ancestors and burial and not healing," he said.

Here is the full story from the Daily Telegraph.

Comments

[marco_marco]

Here's a summery of this years headlines, some of it sensible, some of it not so.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/7660860.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7625145.stm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2655187/Stonehenge-was-hidden-from-lower-classes.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/stonehenge-builders-had-geometry-skills-to-rival-pythagoras-834313.html

[marco_marco]

Here's a summery of this years headlines, some of it sensible, some of it not so.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/7660860.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7625145.stm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2655187/Stonehenge-was-hidden-from-lower-classes.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/stonehenge-builders-had-geometry-skills-to-rival-pythagoras-834313.html