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Tanuki

(14,921 posts)
Fri May 13, 2022, 06:18 PM May 2022

Thousands of prehistoric hunting pits unearthed beneath Stonehenge

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/stonehenge-prehistoric-hunting-pits-1234628505/

"Archaeologists have unearthed thousands of pits below Stonehenge that are believed to have been used by prehistoric hunters.

Some of the pits are more than 10,000 years old. One was 13 feet wide and 6½ feet deep, making it the largest of its kind in northwest Europe, University of Birmingham and Ghent University researchers said.

The entire site dates from between 8200 B.C. and 7800 B.C., revealing some of the earliest activity of hunter-gatherers around Stonehenge in the pit from the Mesolithic period, which followed the last Ice Age. At the time the largest known pit was dug, the famously enigmatic stone circle had yet to be erected."...(more)

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Thousands of prehistoric hunting pits unearthed beneath Stonehenge (Original Post) Tanuki May 2022 OP
Lots of Latter Day BBQ Pits will someday be found Achilleaze May 2022 #1

Achilleaze

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1. Lots of Latter Day BBQ Pits will someday be found
Fri May 13, 2022, 06:33 PM
May 2022

beneath the rubble of Babylon.

So sayeth the profits.

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