Stonehenge’s Bones: The Burial Site That Rewrites What We Thought We Knew

New isotope analysis of human remains at Stonehenge shows that many of the people buried there in its earliest phase came from Wales the same place as the bluestones. Some of them may have been descendants of the communities that quarried and transported the stones 300 kilometers to Salisbury Plain. The stones and the dead may have been making the same journey. Stonehenge’s primary function,…