It is possible, the authors of the new study say, that people buried at the henge came from the same Welsh region. But cremated remains were generally considered an archaeological dead end, too damaged to yield information. For his PhD research, he developed a way to identify strontium in cremated bones from Northern Ireland. When archaeologists sent Stonehenge remains to Snoeck's lab for another project, he jumped at the chance to apply his technique to them. The archaeologist plans to study cremated remains in other countries.

Source: Washington Post August 02, 2018 14:40 UTC