The period of Stonehenge and megalithic construction was also a time of large seasonal festivals at sites like Darrington Walls where populations engaged in massive communal meat feasts alongside coordinated construction activities, indicating sophisticated social organization and deliberate resource allocation.
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“there's a site close to Stonehenge called Darrington walls where they've actually found the place where people congregated for seasonal festivals and feasted on huge amounts of meat... this presumably was at the times when they were also engaging in these big coordinated construction activities [17:10]”
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Everything We Think We Know About Early Human History is Wrong | David Wengrow on Downstream— Novara MediaCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:30:32 PM
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