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STONEHEGE AND BEYOND
Nearly the only artifacts bequeathed to the present by the builders of Stonehenge and the thousands of other megalithic monuments dotting the British countryside were stones. The culture that built these profound testaments to perseverance had no written language, left no pictorial records, did not pass down oral histories through the generations. Lost in the mists of prehistory are most of the clues that might have explained what beliefs or practical concerns drove these people to stand 80-ton boulders on end and painstakingly arrange them into circles with little more than ropes and their bare hands.
Through intensive forensic examinations of soil, bones, clay urns, and primitive tools discovered near megalithic sites, archaeologists have ascertained that the earliest landmarks to have survived to the present were built by a late Stone Age, or Neolithic, people. Emigrating to the fertile chalk uplands of south-central England from the Continental northwest around 4000 BCE, these hardy settlers were the first to bring agriculture to the British Isles.
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