Tim Darvill | British archaeologist | Britannica (original) (raw)

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collaboration with Wainwright

• In Geoffrey Wainwright
  Wainwright and Darvill were convinced that the great effort required to move the bluestones that make up much of the monument from the Preseli Mountains in Wales to Stonehenge meant that the stones must have been regarded as extraordinarily significant. They learned that the stones…
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research on Stonehenge

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  In Stonehenge: Speculation and excavation
  In 2008 British archaeologists Tim Darvill and Geoffrey Wainwright suggested—on the basis of the Amesbury Archer, an Early Bronze Age skeleton with a knee injury, excavated 3 miles (5 km) from Stonehenge—that Stonehenge was used in prehistory as a place of healing. However, analysis of human remains from around…
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