Strontium isotope analysis on cremated human remains from Stonehenge support links with west Wales

C Snoeck, J Pouncett, P Claeys, S Goderis… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Cremated human remains from Stonehenge provide direct evidence on the life of those few
select individuals buried at this iconic Neolithic monument. The practice of cremation has …

Multi-isotope analysis reveals that feasts in the Stonehenge environs and across Wessex drew people and animals from throughout Britain

R Madgwick, AL Lamb, H Sloane, AJ Nederbragt… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
The great henge complexes of southern Britain are iconic monuments of the third millennium
BCE, representing great feats of engineering and labor mobilization that hosted feasting …

A Scottish provenance for the Altar Stone of Stonehenge

AJI Clarke, CL Kirkland, RE Bevins, NJG Pearce… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding the provenance of megaliths used in the Neolithic stone circle at
Stonehenge, southern England, gives insight into the culture and connectivity of prehistoric …

[图书][B] Assembling past worlds: materials, bodies and architecture in Neolithic Britain

OJT Harris - 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
Assembling Past Worlds draws on new materialism and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to
explore the potential for a posthumanist archaeology. Through specific empirical study, this …

The original Stonehenge? A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west Wales

MP Pearson, J Pollard, C Richards, K Welham… - Antiquity, 2021 - cambridge.org
The discovery of a dismantled stone circle—close to Stonehenge's bluestone quarries in
west Wales—raises the possibility that a 900-year-old legend about Stonehenge being built …

The Memory Code: The traditional Aboriginal memory technique that unlocks the secrets of Stonehenge, Easter Island and ancient monuments the world over

L Kelly, D Gojak - Volume forty 2016, 2016 - press-files.anu.edu.au
The first impressions are certainly not encouraging. The pastel-dominated graphic design,
the title itself and, not least, an image of Stonehenge above a gushing cover blurb offering …

'A veritable chauvinism of prehistory': nationalist prehistories and the 'British'late Neolithic mythos

GJ Barclay, K Brophy - Archaeological Journal, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This article examines the interpretation and public presentation of a particular view of the
supposedly 'national'role of monuments in a geographically restricted part of southern …

Megalith quarries for Stonehenge's bluestones

MP Pearson, J Pollard, C Richards, K Welham… - antiquity, 2019 - cambridge.org
Geologists and archaeologists have long known that the bluestones of Stonehenge came
from the Preseli Hills of west Wales, 230km away, but only recently have some of their exact …

Identification of the source of dolerites used at the Waun Mawn stone circle in the Mynydd Preseli, west Wales and implications for the proposed link with Stonehenge

RE Bevins, NJG Pearce, MP Pearson… - Journal of Archaeological …, 2022 - Elsevier
A Neolithic stone circle at Waun Mawn, in the Mynydd Preseli, west Wales, has been
proposed as the original location of some dolerite megaliths at Stonehenge, including one …

Choosing the site, getting the stones, building the dolmens: local sourcing of andesites at the El Pozuelo megalithic complex (Huelva, Spain)

JA Linares-Catela, T Donaire Romero… - Archaeological and …, 2023 - Springer
The geoarchaeological study focuses on the lithological characterization and provenance
determination of the rocks of the El Pozuelo dolmens. The difficulty of identifying volcanic …