The area has been a special place for hunter-gatherer communities for thousands of years before the first rocks were set.
Recent archaeological excavations around Stonehenge have provided an opportunity for experts from the University of Birmingham and Ghent to discover thousands of prehistoric peats. Express writes about it.
It was noticed that this discovery radically changed their understanding of the ancient landscape, as the largest pit, 4 m wide and 2 m deep, was probably the oldest trace of human activity in the Salisbury Plain.
The pit was built over 10,000 years in the Early Mesolithic, or Middle Stone Age. At that time, Britain was inhabited by hunter-gatherers after the last ice age.
“We found some of the earliest evidence of human activity that has not yet been explored in the landscape of Stonehenge,” the scientists said.
This means that the area was a special place for hunter-gatherer communities thousands of years before the first stones were set.
“The six large pits excavated during the study date from 8,000 BC (Early Mesolithic) to 1,300 BC (Middle Bronze Age). Mesolithic pits, based on their size and shape, were probably dug as a hunting trap. for the big game Location mapping.of the pits showed that they were clustered in places that had been repeatedly visited over millennia, especially in the mountains east and west of Stonehenge, probably because of the view from the them in the landscape, “said the archaeologists.
We will remind, earlier near Stonehenge ancient mines were discovered.
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