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Stonehenge

The Ancients

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Stonehenge and the Neolithic Monument

We'd have absolutely no evidence for hierarchy wow so there's no rich burial we don't have any burials so we're having rich burials. Generally it looks very egalitarian but that might be because we haven't got the evidence rather that you know it just doesn't turn up. There is roughly equal numbers of men and women buried at Stonehenge and at some other similar cremation sites there's more women than men. We shouldn't really put our assumptions on that period and say well obviously men were in charge or obviously there was an architect or somebody controlling everything, he says.

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