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seems like they found some stuff nearby and attribute the build based on proximity / estimated time-line? how hard is such evidence to suggest it was really the

• whenchamenia 7y ago
  Apparently not even that. Tfa says they just analyzed remains from what they estimate is a similar time period as what they estimate stonehenge to be. Not even local to the site. While some inferences can be drawn, this is mostly puff.
  • singularity2001 7y ago
    I think the article was written in a bigger archeological context in which relative genetic homogeneity was established for within the Mesolithic,Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods.
• 75dvtwin 7y ago
  Exactly. There is no proof that the people whose remains are found, were the builders. Putting into the title '.. origin of the builders' appears to be a fabrication by BBC. The abstract of the referenced article in the scientific journal does not support the BBC's fabrication. "... We find overwhelming support for agriculture being introduced to Britain by incoming continental farmers, with small, geographically structured levels of hunter-gatherer ancestry. Unlike other European Neolithic populations, we detect no resurgence of hunter-gatherer ancestry at any time during the Neolithic in Britain. Genetic affinities with Iberian Neolithic individuals indicate that British Neolithic people were mostly descended from Aegean farmers who followed the Mediterranean route of dispersal. We also infer considerable variation in pigmentation levels in Europe by circa 6000 bc.... "