We may not know exactly how or why Stonehenge was built, but new research affords a glimpse of the people who erected England’s iconic stone monument some 5,000 years ago. - NBCNewsMACH
The analysis showed that the DNA of the Neolithic period skeletons in Britain matched the genetic"signatures" of early farmers in Europe, a group of people shown in previous studies to have migrated from the Aegean coast. This suggests farming practices began in Britain when these Neolithic inhabitants arrived on the island.
Joachim Burger, an anthropologist at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany — who was not involved with the study — called the research “exciting” and said cultural factors could have helped deter intermarriage between the two groups.
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