Stonehenge revealed.

• Position: ARCHAEOLOGY - Stonehenge Site, England - Brief article

Stonehenge--the circle of massive prehistoric stone monuments in the town of Wiltshire, England--has long been one of the great mysteries of human civilization. Was it an observatory, a site of healing, a place of worship? A team of British archaeologists thinks it's one step closer to solving the riddle of Stonehenge and its origins. After analyzing more than 50,000 bone fragments of 63 bodies cremated at the location, the team concluded that the Stonehenge site may have started as a graveyard for a community of elite families in 3000 B.C., 500 years before the construction

of the Stonehenge edifice standing today. The researchers also have a theory about who built the...