Willis, C;
Marshall, P;
McKinley, J;
Pitts, M;
Pollard, J;
Richards, C;
Richards, J;
... Parker Pearson, MG; + view all
(2016)
The dead of Stonehenge.
Antiquity
, 90
(350)
pp. 337-356.
10.15184/aqy.2016.26.
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Abstract
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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The dead of Stonehenge |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.15184/aqy.2016.26 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.26 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2016 |
| Keywords: | Stonehenge; Late Neolithic–Early Bronze Age; cremation; Bayesian dating |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1474049 |
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