23rd February 2009, 09:04 PM
Arddhu, I am not attempting to stir the pot here as I feel some poster are becoming rather heated, but I have noticed that you (and others) tend to refer to these human remains as "our ancestors." I question the validity of this, as the vast majority of brits are geneticaly a soup of various invaders who turned up long after the avebury buriels were intured. Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Normans etc. really the list is endless. Now I am not saying that due to the extreme distance of our connection to these buriels that they should not be respected, just that refering to them as our ancestors is needlessly emotive. We are really linked to these bones by the landscape we inhabite not genetically.