Dates for Stonehenge Burials Signify Long Use as Cemetery

US Fed News Service, Including US State News | May 29, 2008 | Copyright

National Geographic issued the following news release:

New radiocarbon dates of human cremation burials at England's Stonehenge indicate that the monument was used as a cemetery from its inception just after 3000 B.C. until well after the large stones went up around 2500 B.C.

Many archaeologists previously believed that people had been buried at Stonehenge only between 2700 and 2600 B.C., before the large stones, known as sarsens, were put in place. The new dates provide strong clues about the original purpose of the monument and show that its use as a cemetery extended for more than 500 ...

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