Mystery AtlasAncestral Monument and Unification Theory
The leading current academic reading of Stonehenge's purpose, developed through the Stonehenge Riverside Project, holding that the monument honoured and housed the dead as a permanent stone counterpart to the nearby timber settlement of Durrington Walls, and plausibly symbolised the unification of Neolithic Britain through stone drawn from distant regions.
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Theories & Explanations
Ancestral Monument and Unification Theory is frequently explored with Astronomical and Calendar Theory — Most archaeologists treat the two readings as complementary rather than mutually exclusive.
People
Ancestral Monument and Unification Theory was popularised by Mike Parker Pearson.
Places
- Stonehengebuilt in phases, c. 3000-1520 BC
Ancestral Monument and Unification Theory attempts to explain Stonehenge.