> Stone Age swimming pools. That's my guess. 🙂
So the big pile of rocks were meant as a distraction to prevent people from finding the deep pits?
The carbon dated inscription reading “Eat at Og’s but avoid the shellfish” made the archeologists’ job easier.
Well they had to dig up those stones from somewhere.
Hmmm..sacred landscape.
This is a pronouncement. A statement of fact.
Is the Guardian saying something about their religious convictions?
> update to the story:
“Professor Mike Parker Pearson, an archaeologist at University College London (UCL), suggested that the discovery of captive pig bones pointed towards the site having been used as a mass hunting grounds, perhaps something akin to a ritual...This would have seen thousands of people from across ancient Britain travel to the site with animals like pigs, to perform a mass ritual within the arc’s sphere, later gathering in a procession to walk to Stonehenge for the winter — not summer — solstice.”
so, were the pits, giant bbq/roasting pits for pigs, in the style of the Hawaiians? I can’t imagine pigs herded into a depression just to be slaughered - very noisy and bloody and a waste of foodstock when there were ‘thousands’ of pilgrims to feed.