Workers at England’s largest enigmatic tourist attraction had a party town nearby, archaeologists say.
"Moving 50-tonne rocks is hungry work. The people who built Stonehenge were duly fuelled by feasts of barbecued pork and beef, according to a major study of pottery and animal remains from a nearby settlement.
"The Durrington Walls village, about 2 miles north-east of Stonehenge, is thought to have been inhabited during the monument’s main construction period – about 2700-2300 BC – and probably housed the people who built it.
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Stonehenge was “more a sombre monument, whereas Durrington Walls is this place where all the activity happens, a party centre if you like, where people are coming to consume food, organise themselves and start active relationships with each other.”
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28333-stonehenge-builders-had-barbecue-feasts-at-nearby-party-centre/
All work and no play, you know.
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