Maybe this will keep anymore talk about that stupid highway far, far away!!!!

quite possibly supplied some of the workers to construct it, and kept going for a long time afterward.

I do wonder about the burials. There aren't enough of them to account for 9300 years of even intermittent occupation.

I was under the impression that burial was rare at that time and that most deceased were either pyred or left in open air to decompose.

I don't think there would have been many burials to find. Aren't the burials at Stonehenge thought to be sacrificial or prominent individuals?

that ended when there was nothing left of the deceased but bones. Open air burial did that very efficiently, scavengers making quick work of reducing a body to bones. Sometimes the bones were collected but most of the time, the people simply moved on to the next camp site, allowing the bones to be widely scattered and weathered down to nothing.

I remember how shocked they were when they went over the area inside and around Stonehenge with sensors and found so few burials. They found evidence of rare executions, but no corresponding graves. Digging graves, even small kist graves for bones, was hard and unnecessary work for most people, probably reserved for either the most important people or the biggest scoundrels, the kist burial keeping their spirits trapped and unable to keep causing trouble. Who knows? They probably told us, but the long oral tradition was lost.