It appears to me that this was a site for human sacrifice used for black and white magic. may be a training ground for sorcerers... Does somebody know some of clairvoyant findings about this site? I think that the people should not go there at all.. The place may have bad vibrations up to today

unity2diversity, Reading,

Surely Stonehenge is a prehistoric storage heater for the tribe or tribes that rested there. The stones are all placed in a well thought out circle capable of absorbing the Sun's rays from dusk until dawn. The sun was less filtered and could provide a great deal of absorbed and radiated warmth

Philip Warren, Lancaster, U.K.

At the time we are talking about The British Isles was mostly covered in trees. What would anyone need coal for? To smelt metal etc they would have used charcoal. Perhaps Mr Denke should stick to US ancient history!

Miles, Gloucester, UK

Surely evident Gary that they were looking for oil and hailed originally from Texas.

frosbert eglantine, PARIS, France

To extract DNA, DNA has to be present, and unfortunately this isn't always the case. With mumified bodies DNA can be found in hair follicles or skin so its easier to extract. Depending on the state of bone they can sometimes extract it from that. Ageing a body can be done though teeth.

wendy , southend on sea, UK

tom, devon, Devon
Why would Creationists want to debunk this new theory - the results show that Stonehenge is less than 6500 years old? Well inside their theory for the age of the world.

David, Peterborough, UK

Matt, Reading, UK
Google 'Forensic Archaeology'. The Skeletal remains of a person have various characteristics which can help calculate a person's age at death.
http://www.nakedscience.org/agelect.htm

David, Peterborough, UK

Perhaps the scientists could compare the DNA with a current data bank of our population and see if there are any close matches.

David, Hayling Island, UK

So basically Gary, you are relying on your ancestor's (?) theories and just carrying on despite more recent discoveries that eliminate their ideas? - I'd go with the denistry if I were you.

NevTheTech, Southend, UK

Would be interesting to know how many "Creationist" try to debunk this new theory Jon

tom, devon, Devon

Take away all of the dressed-up pretty cemetery headstone rocks and what have you got? Nothing more than a bunch of coal exploratory ditches and holes, that is what. Afterwards, these ditches and holes became cemetery plots, for tired disappointed coal explorers and their cold disheartened families.

Garry Denke, Plano, USA

surely if it is a family burial site then DNA testing would confirm this?

If I remeber correctly 'they' did a DNA test of the peat man or some other ancient hunter and he was a direct ancestor of many people living in nearby villages!

Pete W, Bristol, UK

I am interested to know how they can be so precise on the age of the woman whose remains have been carbon dated (25 years old), yet only give a window of 230 years as to exactly when she was cremated and placed in the ground?
Anyone know exactly how they do it? I obviously dont watch enough CSI.

Matt, Reading, UK

Garry,

Forgive me but what exactly is the point you are trying to make? I seem to be missing it.

Are you suggesting that ancient peoples went to such an effort e.g. dragging huge stones from Wales to Wiltshire, simply to mark the spot where they failed to find coal?

Richard , Jersey, Channel Islands,

Garry, you seriously think they went to the trouble of dragging those stones hundreds of miles and erecting them into a nigh on impossible pattern to mark a coal-free site? That's actually more bonkers than the religious theories!

Helen, Oxford,

Very interesting. As a person who finds Stonehenge a Holy site as well as historical, I'm always happy to hear more about it's past. Have had the priviledge of seeing it 4 times, once for an hour inside the stones (on a rainy morning in June).
The hour inside was a sacred experience for me.

Pagansister, Lincoln, U.S.A.

Avebury coal duster, Cursus coal duster, Durrington Walls coal duster, Long Barrow coal duster, Robin Hood's Ball coal duster, Stonehenge coal duster, Woodhenge coal duster, all originally simple coal hunting failures. Every one of them, coal exploration sites that did not yield coal. Sad, but true.

Garry Denke, Plano, USA