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The six houses are strewn with animal bones and broken pottery - so many signs of feasting and ceremony that archaeologists wonder whether the site was used for funerary practices before remains were deposited at SAtonehenge.

Says Mike Pitts,editor of British Archaeology: "For the very first time, it's creating a social world into which we can place Stonehenge."