ANTHROP 2PA3 Chapter Notes -Digital Elevation Model, Durrington Walls, Stonehenge Riverside Project
15 Nov 2014
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There were social organization in wessex because the monuments that were being constructed required 1 million hours of labor and 300 people working, food was given to these individuals. This evidence is inferred that a form of social organization is required for these individuals to be able to construct these monuments. Stonehenge as a place for the ancestors" is most supported by the evidence of the. In the amesbury archer site, the burials were a cemetery and it contained mixture of bones and grave treasure along with gold ornaments, and it was consider a place for burial for the wealthy and elite. This falls inline with stonehenge as a place for the ancestors as it was discovered that it was an enclosed cemetery for. 500 years: in the map on the left on page 194, burial mounds are marked by blue rectangles, causewayed enclosures are marked by green dots in circles, and inferred territories by dashed lines.
