The secret of Stonehenge has apparently been solved: The mysterious circle of large stones in southern England was primarily a burial ground for almost five centuries, and the site probably holds the remains of a family that long ruled the area, new research concludes.
Based on radiocarbon dating of cremated bones up to 5,000 years old, researchers with the Stonehenge Riverside Project said they are convinced the area was built and then grew as a “domain of the ancestors.”
“It’s now clear that burials were a major component of Stonehenge in all its main stages,” said Mike Parker Pearson, an archaeology professor at the University of Sheffield in England and head of the project. “Stonehenge was a place of burial from its beginning to its zenith in the mid-third millennium B.C.”
So, all that new age claptrap about it was just a lot of nonsense…not too surprising. Oddly enough, this occured to me not too long ago – that the arrangement of the stones appears similar to Celtic graves which, due to weathering, have become exposed to the open air. Seems our ancient ancestors, mystifed by death, spent a lot of effort on it…the Egyptians being the most famed in this area, but there is no reason to believe that anything else of a similar nature has any different use.
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