TY - JOUR
T1 - The dead of Stonehenge
AU - Willis, Christie
AU - Marshall, Peter
AU - McKinley, Jacqueline
AU - Pitts, Mike
AU - Pollard, Joshua
AU - Richards, Colin
AU - Richards, Julian
AU - Thomas, Julian
AU - Waldron, Tony
AU - Welham, Kate
AU - Pearson, Mike Parker
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2016.
PY - 2016/4/1
Y1 - 2016/4/1
N2 - The assemblage of Neolithic cremated human remains from Stonehenge is the largest in Britain, and demonstrates that the monument was closely associated with the dead. New radiocarbon dates and Bayesian analysis indicate that cremated remains were deposited over a period of around five centuries from c. 3000-2500 BC. Earlier cremations were placed within or beside the Aubrey Holes that had held small bluestone standing stones during the first phase of the monument; later cremations were placed in the peripheral ditch, perhaps signifying the transition from a link between specific dead individuals and particular stones, to a more diffuse collectivity of increasingly long-dead ancestors.
AB - The assemblage of Neolithic cremated human remains from Stonehenge is the largest in Britain, and demonstrates that the monument was closely associated with the dead. New radiocarbon dates and Bayesian analysis indicate that cremated remains were deposited over a period of around five centuries from c. 3000-2500 BC. Earlier cremations were placed within or beside the Aubrey Holes that had held small bluestone standing stones during the first phase of the monument; later cremations were placed in the peripheral ditch, perhaps signifying the transition from a link between specific dead individuals and particular stones, to a more diffuse collectivity of increasingly long-dead ancestors.
KW - Bayesian dating
KW - cremation
KW - Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age
KW - Stonehenge
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U2 - 10.15184/aqy.2016.26
DO - 10.15184/aqy.2016.26
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84984622743
SN - 0003-598X
VL - 90
SP - 337
EP - 356
JO - Antiquity
JF - Antiquity
IS - 350
ER -