THE STONEHENGE by: Andrey Erzhenin , Nicole Alaniya , Levon Petrosov 7 С School 29 “Harmony” Teacher M. A. Gryazeva
THE STONEHENGE Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, 3 km west of Amesbury and 13 km north of Salisbury.
Stonehenge consists of ring of standing stones, with each standing stone around 4. 1 metres high, 2. 1 metres wide and weighing around 25 tons.
CONSTRUCTION Stonehenge evolved in several construction phases spanning at least 1500 years. There is evidence of largescale construction on and around the monument that perhaps extends the landscape's time frame to 6500 years.
Dating and understanding the various phases of activity is complicated by animal burrowing, poor quality early excavation records, and a lack of accurate, scientifically verified dates.
HISTORY Stonehenge was a place of burial from its beginning to its zenith in the mid third millennium B. C.
The cremation burial dating to Stonehenge's sarsen stones phase is likely just one of many from this later period of the monument's use and demonstrates that it was still very much a domain of the dead.
During the earlier Neolithic, people built a causewayed enclosure at Robin Hood's Ball and long barrow tombs in the surrounding landscape.
In approximately 3500 BC, a Stonehenge Cursus was built 700 metres north of the site as the first farmers began to clear the trees and develop the area.
A number of other adjacent stone and wooden structures and burial mounds, previously overlooked, may date as far back as 4000 BC. Charcoal from the ‘Blick Mead’ camp 2. 4 kilometres from Stonehenge (near the Vespasian's Camp site) has been dated to 4000 BC.
The University of Buckingham's Humanities Research Institute believes that the community who built Stonehenge lived here over a period of several millennia, making it potentially "one of the pivotal places in the history of the Stonehenge landscape.
The monument and its environs were included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1986.
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