Name: ストーンヘンジの歴史を書き換える (UCL) (Rewriting Stonehenge's history (UCL))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:59:30.000Z
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Thanks to our excavations, not just by our own team but other teams over the last twenty years

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we've now established that Stonehenge was built

in a series of different stages, first of all

but also upstanding features such as standing stones

that people started to use it as a cemetary,

and it continued being used as a cemetary for at least two hundred years and

It's then that the next stage of construction was put up

and that is these large sarsen stones, they're a type of sandstone, they come from

the Marlborough Downs about twenty miles away

whereas the smaller stones already in place

had come from the Preseli Hills in West Wales, a distance of a hundred and

emphasis was not on Stonehenge itself but actually on a nearby henge called

in fact the largest henge in the whole of Britain -

it's about seventeen hectares in extent -

and what we established was that Stonehenge was just one part of this

What what we discovered at Durrington Walls

what must have been not just hundreds of people but thousands of people,

and it was there that we were able to work out that this was quite probably the worker's camp.

was to find out at what times of year people were actually inhabiting this village,

because although it's the largest known settlement from the Neolithic in

it seems to have been occupied only seasonally;  people coming in

for particular times of the year, and we can track that

because thanks to the way that their teeth grow you can age them quite

we were seeing that the majority were killed

around nine months later and then the rest of them some fifteen months from birth,

and of course those are extremely important

points within the Neolithic calendar at Stonehenge,

because Stonehenge's main alignment is towards the midsummer sunrise

and in the opposite direction the mid winter sunset.

five constructional stages at Stongehenge, one shortly after 3000 BC,

two small phases of rearranging the smaller stones in the next 3-4 hundred years

they dig holes apparently to  move stones but the stones are never moved;

Those last stages of construction also coincide

with a fundamental social change in Britain,

and that's the arrival of what we call the Beaker people,

this is a continental style of ceramics and burial

which had been absolutely absent from Britain

so Britain was basically cut off from the continent

up until the arrival of the Beaker people around 2400BC,

and i think it's their lifestyle, their politics, their social structure

they are much more individualizing than the collective power structure

so the great monument building that's going on in Britain at this time, and it's not

just Stonehenge but many other timber circles, stone circles,

earthen mounds of giant proportions like Silbury Hill,

these come to an end within two centuries of

Beaker arrival  - they're coming from parts of Europe that don't have

it's a much more dispersed, decentralized

so the whole rationale for these kinds of

where people come on pilgrimages and come to worship on a long-term basis;

it is used in a very punctuated form over time:

people come, they construct, they feast, they go away,

and this is really changing our notion of