Mysteries of Stonehenge

Mysteries of Stonehenge — page 1 — INTRODUCTION SOLVING STONEHENGE By summer of 2005 British archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson was extremely frustrated He had been digging trenches near the massive rocks of Stonehenge in southwestern England for more than a year He was determined to find the ancient remains of a prehistoric settlement near this five thousand year old monument So far he'd come up

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Mysteries of Stonehenge — page 3 — Parker Pearson had a thrilling theory He thought the eerily isolated Stonehenge had actually been part of a bigger community Unfortunately though he couldn't find any proof 1 Mike Parker Pearson's 2005 research at Stonehenge was part of the Stonehenge Riverside Project which lasted six

Mysteries of Stonehenge — page 4 — This drawing shows how a house at Durrington Walls might have looked around 3000 BCE And then everything changed In August Parker Pearson and his team began excavating a new patch of dirt In an area called Durrington Walls they discovered the remains of houses hidden underground for thousands of years Suddenly we were all one step closer to understanding one of the great unsolved mysteries of the

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