Stonehenge: DNA Reveals Origin of Builders

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Link: Stonehenge: DNA reveals origin of builders [bBC News]

 

The ancestors of the people who built Stonehenge travelled west across the Mediterranean before reaching Britain, a study has shown.

 

Researchers compared DNA extracted from Neolithic human remains found across Britain with that of people alive at the same time in Europe.

 

The Neolithic inhabitants appear to have travelled from Anatolia (modern Turkey) to Iberia before winding their way north.

 

They reached Britain in about 4,000BC.

 

Details have been published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.

 

The migration to Britain was just one part of a general, massive expansion of people out of Anatolia in 6,000BC that introduced farming to Europe.

 

Before that, Europe was populated by small, travelling groups which hunted animals and gathered wild plants and shellfish.

 

One group of early farmers followed the river Danube up into Central Europe, but another group travelled west across the Mediterranean.

 

DNA reveals that Neolithic Britons were largely descended from groups who took the Mediterranean route, either hugging the coast or hopping from island-to-island on boats. Some British groups had a minor amount of ancestry from groups that followed the Danube route...

 

The builders of Stonehenge, that venerated (most 'British') of ancient monuments were 'Turkish'

 

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Link: Missing part of Stonehenge returned 60 years on [bBC News]

 

A missing piece of Stonehenge has been returned to the site 60 years after it was taken.

 

A metre-long core from inside the prehistoric stone was removed during archaeological excavations in 1958.

 

No-one knew where it was until Robert Phillips, 89, who was involved in those works, decided to return part of it.

 

English Heritage, which looks after Stonehenge, hopes the sample might now help establish where the stones originally came from...