Stonehenge mystery solved as DNA reveals Turkey is distant origin of ancient builders

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Stonehenge mystery solved as DNA reveals Turkey is distant origin of ancient builders
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ANCIENT DNA has provided scientists with a much better understanding of where the people who built Stonehenge came from. A study has found that ancestors of the Stonehenge builders travelled west a…

The Stonehenge ancestors spread farming to the UK along with their tradition of building stone monumentsUpdated: 16th April 2019,ANCIENT DNA has provided scientists with a much better understanding of where the people who built Stonehenge came from.

There is a lot of evidence to indicate that ancient people travelled from Anatolia, which is modern day Turkey, and across Europe in 6,000BC.Getty - ContributorThe Whitehawk Woman, a 5,600-year-old Neolithic woman found in Sussex, was reconstructed and is on show at the Royal Pavilion & Museum in Brighton

The recent DNA research shows that ancient Neolithic Britons were largely related to those people who took the walking and island hopping route.

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