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Not sure what you mean by "Europe", but Stonehenge was built by people who are much more closely related to modern Sardinians than to modern Britons.

gerdesj 2y ago
"modern Sardinians" I'm no expert but that is going to need quite a citation. Bear in mind that the term "Briton" is quite tricky. Stonehenge as a thing has existed from roughly 3000BC onwards. The stones may have come from what is now Wales. The peoples involved are generally called Britons. Sardinia is an island in the Med. and although there will almost certainly be some small intermixing with what is now the UK and Eire, it will be small. Perhaps you are conflating Sardinia with Cornwall or something?
- senderista 2y ago
  To put it quite briefly, the British Isles (and most of Europe) were settled by "Early European Farmers"[0] emerging originally from Anatolia in the early Neolithic. Later in the Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age, Indo-European ("Western Steppe Herder") migrations[1] largely displaced or assimilated them, but today's Southern Europeans retain a significant amount of EEF ancestry (while WSH dominates in Northern Europe), and in Sardinia, for peculiar historical reasons, it actually forms a majority in most of the population. Stonehenge was begun in the late Neolithic by EEF inhabitants of Britain, but shortly afterward the Bell Beaker (WSH-related) migrations[2] began and the EEF population of Britain was almost entirely replaced within a few centuries[3]. The new migrants still kept working on Stonehenge however ("cultural appropriation"?) and its current state is due to them[4]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_European_Farmers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_European_Farmers [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Steppe_Herders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Steppe_Herders [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Beaker_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Beaker_culture [3] https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2018/february/the-beaker-people-a-new-population-for-ancient-britain.html https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2018/february/the-beaker... [4] https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2021/february/ancient-burials-stonehenge-cultures-merged-in-bronze-age.html https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2021/february/ancient-bu...

gerdesj 2y ago

"modern Sardinians" I'm no expert but that is going to need quite a citation. Bear in mind that the term "Briton" is quite tricky. Stonehenge as a thing has existed from roughly 3000BC onwards. The stones may have come from what is now Wales. The peoples involved are generally called Britons. Sardinia is an island in the Med. and although there will almost certainly be some small intermixing with what is now the UK and Eire, it will be small. Perhaps you are conflating Sardinia with Cornwall or something?

senderista 2y ago
To put it quite briefly, the British Isles (and most of Europe) were settled by "Early European Farmers"[0] emerging originally from Anatolia in the early Neolithic. Later in the Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age, Indo-European ("Western Steppe Herder") migrations[1] largely displaced or assimilated them, but today's Southern Europeans retain a significant amount of EEF ancestry (while WSH dominates in Northern Europe), and in Sardinia, for peculiar historical reasons, it actually forms a majority in most of the population. Stonehenge was begun in the late Neolithic by EEF inhabitants of Britain, but shortly afterward the Bell Beaker (WSH-related) migrations[2] began and the EEF population of Britain was almost entirely replaced within a few centuries[3]. The new migrants still kept working on Stonehenge however ("cultural appropriation"?) and its current state is due to them[4]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_European_Farmers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_European_Farmers [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Steppe_Herders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Steppe_Herders [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Beaker_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Beaker_culture [3] https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2018/february/the-beaker-people-a-new-population-for-ancient-britain.html https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2018/february/the-beaker... [4] https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2021/february/ancient-burials-stonehenge-cultures-merged-in-bronze-age.html https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2021/february/ancient-bu...