The people of Stonehenge

Today it is generally agreed that the Stonehenge site was developed by three tribes in a number of phases and sub-phases over many centuries. These builders were the Windmill Hill people, followed by the Beaker people and lastly the Wessex people. Discoveries of human remains in the local area that date from the period of its building all increase our knowledge of Stonehenge life but create new unanswered questions and a few surprises

The discoveries of the burials sites of the Amesbury Archer, the Boscombe Bowmen and the Stonehenge Archer held the human remains of people who were lived at the same time as it was being worked on or in use.   This article will discuss the roles of the three different builders and the possible roles of the Amesbury Archer, the Boscombe Bowmen and the Stonehenge Archer in Stonehenge life of the time. 

Stonehenge, April, 2009 by Mactographer - Attribution

A project the size of Stonehenge would have required many different levels of management, planning, organizing and supervising when being built and after construction was finished and it was functioning as it had been planned. The workforce may have comprised of different types laborers and craftsmen.

There may well have been other tasks associated with it such as making and supplying ropes, wooden rollers, or skids. The workforce would have to have been fed and housed and the area may have undergone an economic boom thanks to Stonehenge.

The real mystery of Stonehenge is not so much the building but the people who built it. One can hardly begin to fathom the strength of faith and belief that would fortify them through each mammoth phase of the project.  Read more