Stonehenge was 'domain of the dead', says scientist
Stonehenge was 'domain of the dead', says scientist
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<p>Stonehenge served as a cemetery for more than 500 years – much longer than previously thought – a radiocarbon-dating study has found. Charred bones and teeth unearthed from the site on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, have been dated to various times between about 3,030 BC and 2,340 BC, according to Professor Mike Parker Pearson, an archaeologist at Sheffield University. The first stones were erected on the site about 2,500 BC.</p> |
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News entry number 4965 added on May 30, 2008 in the Technology and IT category.
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