{"id":82335,"date":"2022-05-18T19:23:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T19:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/?p=82335"},"modified":"2022-05-21T19:48:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T19:48:45","slug":"prehistoric-pits-discovered-at-stonehenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cred.ai\/news\/2022\/05\/18\/prehistoric-pits-discovered-at-stonehenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Prehistoric Pits Discovered at Stonehenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Archaeologists with the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site have identified 415 ancient ditches in a single square-mile area surrounding the iconic English monument. The group was conducting a geophysical survey of the land when they made the discovery, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/stonehenge-pits-found-1848931640\"><span class=\"s1\">Gizmodo<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Researchers say the ditches predate Stonehenge by thousands of years and indicate that hunter-gatherer communities spent time there in the early Mesolithic period when what is now Britain was repopulated after the last Ice Age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The study was published earlier this month in the <i>Journal of Archaeological Science.\u00a0<\/i>Co-author Nick Snashall said the team of scientists used &#8220;new geophysical techniques&#8221; such as an electromagnetic surveyor, which helps measure how electric fields travel through dirt, in combination with &#8220;coring and pin point excavation&#8221; in order to reveal &#8220;some of the earliest evidence of human activity yet unearthed in the Stonehenge landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Inhabitants may have used the pits as a means to capture animals like boar, red deer, and aurochs, a now extinct wild cattle species. Paul Garwood, senior lecturer in prehistory at the University of Birmingham, said the discovery is not necessarily a \u201csnapshot of one moment in time.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The traces we see in our data span millennia, as indicated by the 7,000-year timeframe between the oldest and most recent prehistoric pits we&#8217;ve excavated,\u201d Garwood said. &#8220;From early hunter-gatherers to later Bronze Age inhabitants of farms and field systems, the archaeology we&#8217;re detecting is the result of the complex and ever-changing occupation of the landscape.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">The findings constitute the most recent and extensive Mesolithic discovery in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeologists with the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site have identified 415 ancient ditches in a single square-mile area surrounding the iconic English monument. 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