Bred Any Good Rooks Lately?

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• not_nadine

  May 26

  Okay I didn't read the stonehedge one yet. I'll see what they have to say.

  
• Kurben

  May 26

  GNTLGNT said:

  .....maybe not a grave Kurb, but there were remains found there if I recall correctly....

  Quite correct. The place where Stonehenge now stands were used for approximately 50 cremation burials (might even be the first cremation burials at least in europe, they are very early) whose remains were buried there and found in some potholes.. That was ca 3100 BC-2700 or 2600 BC. Then that all stopped and they built what we today call Stonehenge and no further burials took place. The Standing stones with the slabs on top of them which is what we most often mean with Stonehenge was built ca 2500 BC. There are also some graves relatively close to from different times but since it is the Salisbury plain thats not really strange since people lived and worked there. Stonehenge has gone through many restaurations since then but they took place after the main construction was up and are relatively minor even if you still can see some of them today. All i meant was that since the Stoneslabs were erected in 2500 BC no burial were done at the site of Stonehenge. DNA suggests that the first phase included some construction (postholes and similar things have been found plus two, maybe three stones belong to that phase plus the burials. That was the first farmer invasion of britain. But ca 500 years later different DNA belonging to what is known in Europe as the Bell Beaker culture crossed from france. It is believed they took over and it was they who built Stonehenge. We know it was Bell Beakers from their distinctive pottery found close by. Archaeologists believe it was these people who brought the Indo-european language to britain. The so called first farmers have left very little trace in our current DNA, even less than the Neanderthal whose genes is still in our DNA( ca 1,5-2,0 %) so it is probable that the two groups did not mix very much.

  
• Hedda Gabler

  May 26

  GNTLGNT said:

  .....maybe not a grave Kurb, but there were remains found there if I recall correctly....

  Probably the poor numbnutz that dragged it in place. 

  
• not_nadine

  May 26

  I looked in my book including index. They only mention of it is on the cover.

  
• GNTLGNT

  May 27

  Kurben said:

  GNTLGNT said:

  .....maybe not a grave Kurb, but there were remains found there if I recall correctly....

  Quite correct. The place where Stonehenge now stands were used for approximately 50 cremation burials (might even be the first cremation burials at least in europe, they are very early) whose remains were buried there and found in some potholes.. That was ca 3100 BC-2700 or 2600 BC. Then that all stopped and they built what we today call Stonehenge and no further burials took place. The Standing stones with the slabs on top of them which is what we most often mean with Stonehenge was built ca 2500 BC. There are also some graves relatively close to from different times but since it is the Salisbury plain thats not really strange since people lived and worked there. Stonehenge has gone through many restaurations since then but they took place after the main construction was up and are relatively minor even if you still can see some of them today. All i meant was that since the Stoneslabs were erected in 2500 BC no burial were done at the site of Stonehenge. DNA suggests that the first phase included some construction (postholes and similar things have been found plus two, maybe three stones belong to that phase plus the burials. That was the first farmer invasion of britain. But ca 500 years later different DNA belonging to what is known in Europe as the Bell Beaker culture crossed from france. It is believed they took over and it was they who built Stonehenge. We know it was Bell Beakers from their distinctive pottery found close by. Archaeologists believe it was these people who brought the Indo-european language to britain. The so called first farmers have left very little trace in our current DNA, even less than the Neanderthal whose genes is still in our DNA( ca 1,5-2,0 %) so it is probable that the two groups did not mix very much.

  ....thanks for the concise history!....I've watched a few shows, but was unsure of the burial timelines....