Stonehenge
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Stonehenge Hinges
Many of the massive structures built towards the end of the Neolithic era are hinges. An archaeological term for a simple but laborious construction. Hinges don't really function as defensive structures or animal enclosures. One in Avbury is over 350 meters across, large enough to encircle modern village. Another is even bigger, lying only two miles northeast of Stonehenge. Deposits in mittens show that there was plenty of animal protein available. Bones of pigs and cows were thrown away with the meat still attached so the people here once so short of food that they boiled bones to get every last scrap.
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