The Stonehenge cremated remains are from Wales​….

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nigelswift Aug 3, 2018 11:33:48

The cremation dates are "tantalisingly” close to the date when the bluestones were brought into the earlier ditch and bank monument to form the first stone circle.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/02/revealed-stonehenge-buried-welsh?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Is this the end of the glaciation theory?
Discuss.

T tjj
tjj Aug 3, 2018 17:38:52
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nigelswift wrote:
The cremation dates are "tantalisingly” close to the date when the bluestones were brought into the earlier ditch and bank monument to form the first stone circle.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/02/revealed-stonehenge-buried-welsh?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Is this the end of the glaciation theory?
Discuss.
A well written piece from the Guardian - which seems to say yes, the end of the glaciation theory. Last night I tried to follow a FB discussion on the Prehistoric Society page but difficult to pull together all the comments when Wales as a separate country didn't exist 5000 years ago (someone helpfully posted a Roman map of Wales).

The article gives a nice little tribute to Geoffrey Wainwright (and Timothy Darvill). I well remember their healing stones theory.