ARCH 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Durrington Walls, Aubrey Holes, Sarsen

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Archaeology
• Course: ARCH 100
• Professor: David Maxwell

Document Summary

Certain members of a society have more wealth and power than other members of society. Ring of massive standing stones on the salisbury plain, england. Not a single monument but a sequence of monuments built over time. Round ditch that enclosed an area of 110 metres in diameter. Wooden posts were erected in a ring of holes (aubrey holes) dug inside of the ditch. Human remains included from cremated burials found in the fill. A structure of standing timber posts was constructed near the centre of the monument. Monumental stones that are the most impressive aspect of stonehenge erected in a series of six sub-phases: the bluestones. Ring of standing stones about 2 to 2. 5m high at the centre of stonehenge: sarsen circles and trilithons. Sarsen circles sarsen stone monoliths set up around the perimeter of stonehenge. Trilithons another set of sarsen monoliths set up in a horseshoe arrangement inside the sarsen.