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Houses Found Buried Beneath Stonehenge Site

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New excavations near the mysterious circle at Stonehenge in South England have uncovered dozens of homes where hundreds of people lived -- at roughly the same time 4,600 years ago that the giant stone slabs were being erected.

The finding strongly suggests that the monument and the settlement nearby were a center for ceremonial activities, with Stonehenge likely a burial site while other nearby circular earthen "henges" were areas for feasts and festivals.

This photo provided by the National Geographic Society shows the Stonehenge monument, within Stonehenge World Heritage site in January 2007. Archaeological research in 2006 funded partly by National Geographic supports a theory that the monument was part of a much larger religious complex used for funerary ritual.
The houses found buried beneath the grounds of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site are the first of their kind from that late Stone Age period in Britain, suggesting a surprising level of social gathering and ceremonial behavior, in addition to impressive engineering. The excavators said their discoveries together constitute an archeological treasure.

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[ravenedgewalker.livejournal.com]

very very cool :)

[morrigandaughtr.livejournal.com]

What ravenedgewalker said.