So who actually built Stonehenge? What happened and why?
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Sources:
History and Construction:
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/v...
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/v...
http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/2058...
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2...
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa...
https://www.cambridge.org/core/servic...
https://www.livescience.com/62619-did...
https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-s...
https://d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/t...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Dead and Burials:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
http://dro.dur.ac.uk/5849/1/5849.pdf
http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1474049/1/...
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-envi...
https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/our-work...

Image Sources:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St...

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