Excavation uncovers remains of high-status women at Stonehenge

Jumping to conclusions about one&#x27;s status based on how many trinkets they were buried with is a dangerous exercise.<p>Plenty of victims of human sacrifice were buried with a plethora of artefacts. Conversely, many of the world&#x27;s most powerful lie in very unremarkable graves.

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Do they think it was a mass burial or separate burials during that time period?

Interesting, but not particularly surprising. I think a more interesting finding would be a culture where the remains of wives, mothers and other female relations of leaders and high-status individuals were not treated with some level of pomp and circumstance.