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tiompan Nov 9, 2008 23:23:30
Replying to GordonP

GordonP wrote:
Last year the unearthing of a so called "workers village" at Durrington Walls was in the news and claimed to be the homes of the hundreds of workers who built Stonehenge. Remains of nine houses were uncovered some fifteen foot by fifteen. Prof Parker Pearson estimated that the total number of houses in the village may have been as high as 25.

To me 25 small huts seems insufficent to hold the numbers of workers traditionally thought to be needed to move the sarsens from the downs to Stonehenge.

As anyone further information on this village?

I seem to remember that in a radio or tv interview the nine was extrapolated to a much greater number than 25 . There has been little mention of it this year .

G GordonP
GordonP Nov 9, 2008 23:44:30
Replying to tiompan

25 is the number I've uncovered via Google. Sometimes the media fit the story to what is expected.

Sometimes archaeologists do the same, take Skara Brae, the settlement is thought to have been the home of some 55 souls yet the archaeologists say the Ring of Broger points to the settlement being part of a much more complex society, why, because they cannot imagine the stone circle being built by so few people. Yet they have no idea at all how many souls would have been needed for it's construction.