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Posted on 12/23/2009 6:29:02 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The team who worked on the Stonehenge Riverside Project in 2009 are to return to their findings to explain the eating habits of the people who built and worshipped at the stone circle over four thousand years ago... the new 'Feeding Stonehenge' project will analyse a range of materials including cattle bones and plant residue... Initial research suggests the animals were brought considerable distances to the ceremonial site.. The original Stonehenge Riverside project, which strengthened the idea that nearby Durrington Walls was part of the Stonehenge complex, yielded a surprisingly wide range of material ranging from ancient tools to animal remains... "One of the unforeseen outcomes (of the Stoneheng Riverside Project) is the vast quantity of new material - flint tools, animal bones, pottery, plant remains, survey data, and chemical samples - which now needs analysing," explained Professor Parker Pearson... A large collection of cattle jaws collected during the last few years' excavations will now undergo strontium and sulphur isotope analysis to establish where they originally came from and when they were culled. This will give experts a better idea of where people had travelled from to visit the site... Researchers will also try and ascertain whether Britain's Copper Age started 50 years earlier than first thought. Circumstantial evidence points to copper tools being in use at Durrington Walls earlier than originally thought. Cut-marks on animal bones should reveal whether they were made by copper daggers as opposed to flint tools.
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The original Beef Eaters? Well at least they weren’t poaching the King’s deer.
And ironically, dentistry. I mean, c’mon, it’s so obvious — Stonehenge is a gigantic representation of a healthy set of choppers, and the entire complex surrounding that previously enigmatic monument was clearly devoted to dental care.
if I went ‘round sayin’ I was Emperor, just because some moistened bink lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!
Maybe it was an ancient cattle market...or a really small rodeo arena.
We just hum “The Girl from Ipanima”.
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