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in murder as range awaits fate Continuing research at Stonehenge
has established that, in addition to being a place of ceremony
connected with the sun and moon, it also was a center of
mortuary rituals. University of Sheffield archaeologist Mike
Pearson, recently interviewed on National Public Radio's Talk of
the Nation, said that it was, in fact, "the biggest cemetery of
its time." Pearson said, "I think the key thing is that from the
moment that Stonehenge is built -- this is very shortly after
3,000 B.C. -- they're putting in burials as well as the parts of
the monument itself. And I think it's something that is going
hand in hand with it." He referred to alternative theories,
including Bournemouth Univer