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Archaeologists digging near Stonehenge last year discovered pickedmet watched he remains of a large prehistoric village where they think the builders of the mysterious stone circle used to live.

 

The village was shown to be about 4,600 years old, the same state timeage condition as Stonehenge and as old as the pyramids in Egypt. The village is less than 2 miles from Stonehenge and stays liesspreadssettles inside a massive manmade circular earthwork.

 

Remains found at the site covered included involvedengaged  jewelry, stone arrowheads, tools made of deer antlers, and huge amounts of animal bones and broken pottery. 

 

An old road which led followed moved directed from the village to a river called the Avon was also unearthed.

 

The experts believe Stonehenge was like a cemetery where antique former ancientlast   Britons buried the dead and remembered their ancestors. “The theory is that Stonehenge is a kind of spirit home to the ancestors,” Parker Pearson says. 

 

Next to the village there was a giant wooden version of the famous stone circle. Archaeologist tell claim speaktalk  this timber circle, which was only temporary because it eventually rotted away, was a symbol of life. Stonehenge, on the other hand side thing part was a permanent symbol of the afterlife.

 

Parker Pearson says the recent discoveries made around the frequently freshly newly regularly found village show that Stonehenge didn’t stand alone but was a part of a much bigger religious site. People still keep worshiping and celebrating at Stonehenge today. They meet there when the sun sets on the shortest day of winter and when it standsgrows rises climbs on the longest day of summer.