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In 2007 the Stonehenge Riverside Project and the Beaker People Project jointly embarked upon a radiocarbon dating programme of the surviving skeletal remains to establish when Stonehenge was used as a burial space. As a result of this, it is argued that the site began as a cremation cemetery in the early third millennium BC.
The site was excavated in 2007 as part of the Stonehenge Riverside Project. [4] The excavations revealed the pit in which the stone once sat immediately to the west. [2] The stone was originally a natural feature, which sometime before 2000 BC, was placed in an upright position. [2]
A professor at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, he previously worked for 25 years as a professor at the University of Sheffield in England, and was the director of the Stonehenge Riverside Project. [2] A prolific author, he has also written a variety of books on the subject.
The 1980s and 1990s also saw the inception of major archaeological projects; SEARCH (Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides) which began in 1987 and lasting until 2003, and the Stonehenge Riverside Project were significant UK archaeology projects within this group. [23]
New research has shed light on how Stonehenge may have served to unify Britain’s early farmers as newcomers from Europe began to arrive thousands of years ago.
The team brought portable X-ray machines to Orkney to conduct a chemical analysis of minerals contained in exposed rocks at the Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar, two ancient remnants of ...
Stonehenge faces the risk of being “de-listed” as a Unesco world heritage site if plans for a nearby road project featuring a tunnel go ahead, the High Court has been told.
Sheffield University: The Stonehenge Riverside Project; Interviews with Professor Parker-Pearson and Dr. Umberto Albarella about the excavations at Durrington Walls, Intute; Durrington Walls Special, Channel 4: Time Team; National Geographic: 'Stonehenge Decoded' exploring Parker Pearson's theories and the excavations of Durrington Walls