A stroller monument of a stone era in England is also old StonehengeIncreasing the possibility that the creators of the Stonehenge used it as an inspiration, finds a new study.
When researcher Radiocarbon Artifacts from the large monument, known as Flagstone, found that it is about 3200 BC – which means that it is about 200 years older than Stonhenge. Earlier, archaeologists thought that the Flagstone was of the early stages of the stone station, which had been built for centuries and re -configured. Researchers published their findings on 6 March in the journal Ancient times,
This discovery “makes flagstone the first large circular enclosure in the UK,” said the first author of the study Susan GreenyA lecturer in archeology at the University of Exeter in the UK “may be that Flagstone was copied to the stonehenge, or it may be that we need to return to our dates and think again,” he told live science in an email.
Flagstone, an ancient monument and burial site, were found in the 1980s during the construction of the Dorchester bypass at a county dorset in South -West England. The excavation detected a 330-foot wide (100 m) circular trench, which was made with pits. The pits have at least four sets of human remains: one funeral adult and three children whose bodies were buried there. Partially last rites of three other adults are located elsewhere on the site, according to A statement From the University of Exeter.
Now, half of the monument is below the bypass, while the other half is under a historical house, which is managed by the National Trust, a conservation organization. The artefacts of the site are placed in the Dorset Museum.
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The flagstone is about 37 miles (60 km) in the south -west of the stone station. Early stages of Stonhenge include its similarity Misconduct And similar size enclosures made of pits made of intersection, motivated both archaeologists to think that both were built at the same time, about 2900 BC but as part of their doctoral research, Greeni kept a more wide time of clusters in the dorchester area, which was placed simultaneously in the dorsette, which was placed together at the Dorsat Is.
“With new techniques to achieve accurate radioacarbon dates, and advanced statistical methods, we can now really get accurate estimates when events such as memorial construction occurred,” Greene said.
To perform a more accurate date of flagstone, Greeny and their colleagues found radioacarbon-dated human remains, red deer antellers and charcoal site. By combining these dates with archaeological discoveries from the site, Greeny and their colleagues estimated that the pits were dug around 3650 BC, but that the circular enclosure was not formed until 3200 BCE and the burial was kept soon thereafter. A young adult man who was buried under a large Sarsen stone in the center of the fence of Flagstone was placed much later – was first used 1,000 years after the memorial.
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A new type of monument
At the age of 5,200 years, Flagstone is the oldest known larger, circular attachment in the UK. After its construction, circular monuments were built in many other places.
“It is mainly part of a change from rectangular or linear monuments (curses monuments, long baro) or irregular enclosures (cosved enclosure) to circular forms,” Greene said.
The new study suggests that spherical monuments such as flagstones “may be influenced by the practices in Ireland, where people were currently burial to the dead in the graves of the circular route,” he said.
Although the new dates suggest that Flagstone is older than the stonehenge, Greeny feels that scientists should reinforce and reconstruct the stonehenge. Ultimately, some artifacts of the Stonhenge are considered more older than the site.
“Some ‘curated’ are animal bones, which are from the entrance of the enclosure in the Stonhenge, which date from about 3200 BC,” Greene said. “It is believed that these deer bones and cattle skulls were kept for some time before accumulating in the trench.
“With new dates from Flagstone, it is now possible to look at these deposits, which were in a slightly deep parts of the gap, and ask if there was an earlier fence made of intercutting pits which later joined together to make only more continuous trenches, which C (about (about) 2900 BC.
