Cemetery+Theory

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===A professor of the University of Sheffield, UK argues that Stonehenge must be treated as part of a greater complex of monuments in the surrounding area. He believes that Stonehenge was primarily a place for the dead, while Woodhenge which is a similar monument built of wooden pillars was a place for the living.===  ===Another reason why Stonehenge was used as a cemetery is that archaeologists have found many skeletons scattered aro und the area which is very firm evidence as to why Stonehenge was used as a cemetery.===

===New radiocarbon dates of human remains excavated from the ancient stone monument in southwest England suggest it was used as a cemetery from when it was built just after 3000 BC until well after the larger circle of stones went up around 2500 BC.===

== The placement of the graves and artefacts such as a small stone mace are evidence the site was reserved as a burial ground for the dead. I think that this is quite a well thought out theory as a lot of evidence points toward the fact that Stonehenge was used as a cemetery. == 