Amazing new archaeological wonders unearthed near Stonehenge

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6. I think they were. Ancient people considered death a long process

that ended when there was nothing left of the deceased but bones. Open air burial did that very efficiently, scavengers making quick work of reducing a body to bones. Sometimes the bones were collected but most of the time, the people simply moved on to the next camp site, allowing the bones to be widely scattered and weathered down to nothing.

I remember how shocked they were when they went over the area inside and around Stonehenge with sensors and found so few burials. They found evidence of rare executions, but no corresponding graves. Digging graves, even small kist graves for bones, was hard and unnecessary work for most people, probably reserved for either the most important people or the biggest scoundrels, the kist burial keeping their spirits trapped and unable to keep causing trouble. Who knows? They probably told us, but the long oral tradition was lost.