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Sunday 29 January 2012

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New article on National Geographic regarding a prehistoric find that pre-dates Stonehenge and may in fact be a precursor to Neolithic sites all across Britain.


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/120127-stonehenge-ness-brodgar-scotland-science/

This is compelling stuff, and links to another couple of other equally interesting pages:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/stonehenge/map-interactive

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081021-stonehenge-toy.html

This would mean that from a very straightforward view, the migration of early man would need to be looked at (usual thought was that due to accessibility England would have been migrated too via France, but this could indicate people also or even only came from much further North) as well as the social conventions and relationships they were assumed to have, aside from funerary and eating practices

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