mo4ch:>Ancestors of Stonehenge builders revealed in new research | Mo4ch News

Western British hunter-gatherers were not the forebearers of those that built arguably Britain’s most iconic prehistoric monument, Stonehenge, according to new researchResearchers from the University College London say the ancestors of Stonehenge’s creators, which is as British as fish and chips, were in fact immigrants who traveled across the Mediterranean to Britain around 6,000 years ago.They compared DNA from Neolithic human remains found in Britain, with people alive at the same time in Europe.Details published in the Nature Ecology & Evolution journal say that Neolithic inhabitants ostensibly traveled from Anatolia (modern Turkey) to Iberia (modern Spain and Portugal), before heading north and landing in Britain in 4,000BC.Located in Wiltshire, England, Stonehenge is thought to be a prehistoric temple aligned with the movement of the Sun. It has become a popular destination for pagan-style celebrations and is often graced with revelers dressed in druid robes and flower garla…