The discovery of an ancient village at Stonehenge proves what neo-pagans have known all along, we know how to party!
After 4,600 years, we still gather for festivals.
The discovery reconfigures the geometry of Stonehenge, indicating that it is not an isolated monument but part of a larger religious complex that may have encompassed the area. It also casts the people who built the monument in an unexpected light, indicating that they were not only the somber worshipers of Stonehenge but also a raucous, hard-partying group who gathered for regular festivals.An earlier discovery found that the village at Stonehenge may have been a gathering place of pagans from across Europe.
He was surrounded by about 100 items, including golden hair ornaments - some of the earliest gold objects found in Britain.
But his teeth provided the real surprise. Tests on their enamel, formed in early childhood and which contains telltale chemical signatures from local soil and rocks, showed the archer came from the Alps while the ornaments found in his grave were traced to Spain and France.
This discovery suggests that metalworkers from the Continent had already begun to trade and work in tin, copper and other metals in Britain 4,000 years ago and may have played key roles in building Stonehenge. The monument appears to have been the centre of major activity by travellers roaming across Britain, Ireland and the Continent.