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Scientists Say Stones Celebrated Death; Wood Circle Nearby Was for Life

Even after 4,500 years, Stonehenge is bathed in mystery. Was it a temple? An observatory? Something else? Mike Parker Pearson, an archeologist at the University of Sheffield, thinks he has a new answer. After eight years of excavation, he argues that Stonehenge was just one part of a great religious complex, built by Neolithic people in Britain who did not yet have writing or the wheel. Newly-completed radio-carbon dating suggests that Stonehenge may have been used to bury cremated remains... Full Story
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