Multi-isotope analysis reveals that feasts in the Stonehenge environs and across Wessex drew people and animals from throughout Britain.

摘要: The great henge complexes of southern Britain are iconic monuments the third millennium BCE, representing feats engineering and labor mobilization that hosted feasting events on a previously unparalleled scale. scale movement catchments served, however, have thus far eluded understanding. Presenting largest five-isotope system archeological dataset (87Sr/86Sr, δ34S, δ18O, δ13C, δ15N) yet fully published, we analyze 131 pigs, prime animals, from four Late Neolithic (approximately 2800 to 2400 BCE) explore networks feasts served. Because evidence excludes continental contact, sources considered only in context British Isles. This analysis reveals wide-ranging origins across Britain, with few pigs raised locally. finding demonstrates investment effort transporting elsewhere over vast distances supply evidences very first phase pan-British connectivity.