What's the meaning of Stonehenge?

[emilynghiem]

I decided that Ylvis' viral dance video spoof "What does the fox say"
makes more sense than people trying to make sense of the ACA debates.

But this video is even funnier as a statement
(or a spoof on 80s epic ballad videos?):

Stonehenge -Ylvis [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO] [FULL HD] [3D] - YouTube

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klJhWr_FTaE]Stonehenge -Ylvis [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO] [FULL HD] [3D] - YouTube[/ame]

 

[waltky]

Mebbe it's Welsh?...

Stonehenge: First residents from west Wales
2 Aug.`18 - Researchers have shown that cremated humans at Stonehenge were from the same region of Wales as the stones used in construction.

The key question was to understand the geographic origin of the people buried at Stonehenge. The key innovation was finding that high temperatures of cremation can crystallise a skull, locking in the chemical signal of its origin. The findings have been published in the journal Scientific Reports. The first long-term residents of Stonehenge, along with the first stones, arrived about 5,000 years ago.

Why does it matter?

While it is already known that the "bluestones" that were first used to build Stonehenge were transported from 150 miles (240 km) away in modern-day Pembrokeshire, almost nothing is known about the people involved. The scientists' work shows that both people and materials were moving between the regions and that, for some of these people, the move was permanent.

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When their lives ended, their cremated remains were placed under the ancient monument in what is now Wiltshire. Lead author Dr Christophe Snoeck compared the levels of different forms, or isotopes, of the element strontium against a national database to work out where the cremated individuals spent the last years of their lives.

Strontium is present in many bedrocks. And different geographical areas have distinctive strontium signatures. So by matching the strontium "fingerprints" in human remains to the strontium profiles of different geographical regions, a person's place of origin can be roughly determined. Dr Snoeck, who is now an international expert in cremation following a PhD at the University of Oxford, said that "about 40% of the cremated individuals did not spend their later lives on the Wessex chalk where their remains were found."

Who were these people?