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The Stonehenge dead tell their stories
« on: July 10, 2018, 01:53:02 pm »

The Stonehenge dead tell their stories


Quite why the child left central Europe around 1500 BCE and travelled to the southern chalklands of England will be forever unknown, but perhaps the reason he stayed can be guessed with a bit more certainty.

There was better food in what is these days known as the county of Wiltshire. In Europe, the boy had suffered anaemia so severe that it forever marked his bones. Also, there was also a role to fill.

What that role was is also unknown, although it seems like he was still an outsider when he died at about the age of 30. The reason for his continued presence, though, is likely uncontroversial.

https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeology/the-stonehenge-dead-tell-their-stories