News from Stonehenge: human remains and artifacts from different historical eras have been found

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News from Stonehenge: human remains and artifacts from different historical eras have been found
News From Stonehenge: Human Remains And Artifacts From Different Historical

News from Stonehenge: human remains and artifacts from different historical eras have been found

The much discussed tunnel under Stonehenge, which we briefly discussed in previous months, will happen. This is certain. Still, there seems to be important news. During the archaeological inspections, in fact, several artifacts were found dating back to the Neolithic and Bronze Age, including some human remains of particular rarity.

As the archaeologist stated Matt Leivers: “Many intimate and non-intimate objects have been found that depict daily life and the approach to death that people had in this place over millennia of history“.

The traces left of these two important historical periods, including the remains of some individuals who lived them, are fundamental to allow scholars to learn more and more deeply as we lived in the England of a very distant past, before and after the formation of Stonehenge.

The discovery of these remains and objects stems from a controversial decision-making process which, despite the opinion of many experts, has defined a £ 1.7 billion plan to build a real gallery under one of the most fragile and important sites in the whole of the UK.

Archaeologists present at Stonehenge are currently working for make sure nothing irreparable happens, so the recent discovery was a kind of breath of fresh air in a constant tension climate that, momentarily, ventilates the site.

Among the many objects found, the oldest appears to be a 4000-year-old schist fragment and not far from this was found the pit containing a child buried with a small vase.

South of the Stonehenge Visitor Center, some were also found pottery dating back to the Neolithic and, implicitly, we immediately wondered who had abandoned them in that place: people who directly erected the impressive cromlech or who went to visit it after its construction? This question can probably only be answered after further analysis.

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Among the interesting discoveries announced, there are also the remains of some men belonging to the culture of the bell jar, a historical period that goes between 2600 and 1900 BC – during the Copper Age.

Located in the western part of the Stonehenge site, there were two were: one that belonged to whole body of a crouching man and who held a vase in his hands; in the other, however, they were alone the ear bones of a possible child – always accompanied by a simple jar.

It is interesting how, near the man’s tomb, a copper awl, a fragment of a needle and a small cylindrical object – never seen before. Precisely this apparently insignificant find could prove to be a new detail in the “artistic” and religious production of these men who dominated some areas of England starting from 2500 BC (100 years after their possible first appearance in the Iberian Peninsula .. .although their origin is actually much debated).

For the moment, all these things that we have listed will be analyzed and studied a Salisbury, to then be exhibited in the great museum of the city.

There is no doubt, however, that the joy of discovery must be accompanied by both criticisms, quite tenacious, moved against the construction of the tunnel under Stonehenge and from both concern about the disastrous impact it could have on objects not found immediately.

The same Andy Crockett, project director, explained that there are no possible options to avoid going to affect the site. However, he assured himself how the investigations on the ground will proceed until 2023, the date of the start of the construction of the underground tunnel, and will be increasingly numerous in order to preserve as many finds as possible not yet found.

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