Mike Parker Pearson on Stonehenge and British Prehistory
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Stonehenge
Durrington walls is fascinating, because there's evidence of feasting and large scale gatherings of people. Unlike stonehenge, where we've got all the burials, we haven't really got anything other than a few scraps of human bone at durrington walls. It's a place that was full of houses and and the living, just as ramili sonina predicted. And what we discovered was that there's an enormous range of origin points for these animals. That both the pigs and the cows from geological zones which are hundreds of miles from stonehenge in some cases.
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