13th Dec. 2016.

Interesting tv. programme recently fronted by Prof. Parker Pearson on early history of Stonehenge complex and the excavation of human remains related to they ‘Aubrey holes’. Modern techniques suggest that a number of these individuals were not local but came from far-flung parts of Britain. Maybe proof of nomadic lifestyles spanning large distances, like those of the Plains native Americans, but certainly re-enforcing the cultural centrality of the Salisbury Plain area. This possibly related to ‘ceremonial avenues’ connecting Durrington Wall and Stonehenge which seem to have been established on post glacial surface features which coincidentally aligned with a solstice and were thus given mystical status.

Also some interesting stuff in the series ‘Digging Britain’ fronted by the lovely Prof. Alice Roberts, although she sticks with the term the ‘Dark Ages’.