Post by Admin on Jul 3, 2021 20:37:21 GMT
They must have been strange days in England around 5,650 years ago at a place near Stonehenge, where people drank from huge decorated bowls and smashed them, ate copious amounts of meat from cattle legs and handled and even smashed human skulls. The new find of two concentric ditches with causeways running through them and the remains of a smashed skull, pottery and cow legs predate Stonehenge by about 1,000 years, adding further to the several monumental and architectural finds indicating Salisbury Plain was a place of great ceremonial and ritual importance to prehistoric people.
5,600-Year-Old Ceremonial Center Found Near Stonehenge, Built 1,000 Years Before Stone Circle was Erected
www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-europe/5600-year-old-ceremonial-center-found-near-stonehenge-built-1000-years-stone-021075
Archaeologists found human skull fragments from one person among the detritus in the 950-meter (1,038-yard) concentric circle that makes up the outer ring of the segmented ditches of the complex. They believe there are probably other skull fragments among the objects in the circles.
So far archaeologists have excavated just about 100 meters (328 feet) of the outer ring, about 17 percent, says an article in The Independent about the discovery in the Independent. Archaeologists have found the fragments of about 200 bowls and the leg bones of dozens of head of cattle. The circular formation is about 200 meters (656 feet) in diameter.
These prehistoric circular ditches, called “causewayed enclosures” because they are crossed by causeways, are common in England, where there are the remains of about 70. They are also found in Europe, including in Germany and Denmark.
5,600-Year-Old Ceremonial Center Found Near Stonehenge, Built 1,000 Years Before Stone Circle was Erected
www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-europe/5600-year-old-ceremonial-center-found-near-stonehenge-built-1000-years-stone-021075
Archaeologists found human skull fragments from one person among the detritus in the 950-meter (1,038-yard) concentric circle that makes up the outer ring of the segmented ditches of the complex. They believe there are probably other skull fragments among the objects in the circles.
So far archaeologists have excavated just about 100 meters (328 feet) of the outer ring, about 17 percent, says an article in The Independent about the discovery in the Independent. Archaeologists have found the fragments of about 200 bowls and the leg bones of dozens of head of cattle. The circular formation is about 200 meters (656 feet) in diameter.
These prehistoric circular ditches, called “causewayed enclosures” because they are crossed by causeways, are common in England, where there are the remains of about 70. They are also found in Europe, including in Germany and Denmark.