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Stonehenge Village
Stonehenge Village
Archaeologists digging near Stonehenge last year he remains of a large prehistoric village where they think the builders of the mysterious stone circle used to live.
The village was shown to be about 4,600 years old, the same as Stonehenge and as old as the pyramids in Egypt. The village is less than 2 miles from Stonehenge and inside a massive manmade circular earthwork.
Remains found at the site jewelry, stone arrowheads, tools made of deer antlers, and huge amounts of animal bones and broken pottery.
An old road which from the village to a river called the Avon was also unearthed.
The experts believe Stonehenge was like a cemetery where Britons buried the dead and remembered their ancestors. “The theory is that Stonehenge is a kind of spirit home to the ancestors,” Parker Pearson says.
Next to the village there was a giant wooden version of the famous stone circle. Archaeologist this timber circle, which was only temporary because it eventually rotted away, was a symbol of life. Stonehenge, on the other was a permanent symbol of the afterlife.
Parker Pearson says the recent discoveries made around the found village show that Stonehenge didn’t stand alone but was a part of a much bigger religious site. People still keep worshiping and celebrating at Stonehenge today. They meet there when the sun sets on the shortest day of winter and when it on the longest day of summer.
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