Ancestors of Stonehenge people could be buried inside uncovered 'house of the dead'

[rangerrebew]

Ancestors of Stonehenge people could be buried inside uncovered 'house of the dead'
July 12, 2017
 

A 'House of the Dead' has been discovered in Wiltshire dating back 5,000 years by University of Reading archaeologists and students, and could contain the ancestors of those who lived around Stonehenge and Avebury.

As part of the University's final Archaeology Field School in the Pewsey Vale, students and staff, with the support of volunteers from the area, have investigated the site of a Neolithic long barrow burial mound in a place known as Cat's Brain – the first to be fully investigated in Wiltshire in half a century.

The monument, which predates nearby Marden Henge by over 1,000 years, may contain human remains buried there in around 3,600 BC. The monument was first spotted by aerial photography and followed up by geophysical survey imagery.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-07-ancestors-stonehenge-people-uncovered-house.html#jCp

[SunkenCiv]

Stonehenge was a burial monument, just like the passage graves and other megalithic structures are now understood to have been, in Europe and elsewhere.

[Idiot]

Stonehenge was a burial monument, just like the passage graves and other megalithic structures are now understood to have been, in Europe and elsewhere.

Hmmm....been there done that.  Drove out to a pile of rocks in a field.  Not worth the trip.