Theories about Stonehenge for solstitial alignments in stonehenge and the timber circles at Durrington Walls and Woodhenge as well. Mike Parker Pearson also believes that the stonehenge was a monument of unification, bringing together different groups with different ancestries. He surmises that the five trilithons in the center of stonehenge could have symbolized five tribal lineages charting their descent from five original ancestors. The Preseli Hills might have had some ancestral significance for the stonehenge builders as well (perhaps this was their place of origin), this may have been the motive behind dragging the bluestones all the way from Preseli Hills to Wiltshire.
Stonehenge Riverside Project Archaeology, to explore connections between archaeological processes and artistic practices. In 2008, and again in 2009, the team excavated the remains of a henge beside the river, about south-east of Stonehenge. The discovery attracted media coverage and the name "Bluehenge" or "Bluestonehenge". Stonehenge is effectively Britain's largest third millennium BC cemetery, containing 52 cremation burials and many other fragments of both burnt and unburnt bone. Many of the cremation deposits contained more than one individual, so that an estimate of the number of people buried here during that period may be between 150 and 240. In 2007 the Stonehenge Riverside