Stonehenge Settlement

[ysabetwordsmith]

 My partner Doug tipped me to this article about a settlement near Stonehenge that demonstrates the area was occupied permanently rather than temporarily.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

I think I recall reading somewhere that someone who lived in a town with a major annual festival drawing lots of tourism looked at the habitation patterns of Stonehenge and went "...festival town. am I seriously the first person to see this?"

Party animals

[dialecticdreamer]

Homo sapiens sapiens are DEFINITELY party animals, and everything ELSE in the fossil/archaeological records supports this. Why WOULDN'T there be an "economy" - and I use quotes only because I'm not confident of my memory of social anthropology, which is about eight years old at the moment.

[zeeth_kyrah]

8820BC would be right around the time agriculture became popular in the area, wouldn't it? And in line with cave paintings across Europe.

Yes...

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

That sounds about right.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

I think my favorite part of that article is the fact that there was a woodhenge there before the stonehenge. For some reason that just really amuses me.