Stonehenge founders?

New research is being conducted on the prehistoric Scottish settlers known as the Beaker People. From The BBC:

Aberdeen University is sending 23 skeletons from its collection to Sheffield University where they will be analysed with the latest technology. The research will concentrate on a little-known race of Bronze Age settlers called the Beaker People. It is thought they may have introduced metalwork to Britain 4,000 years ago. They may also have built many of the country's stone circles, including Stonehenge. The race got its name from the clay pots or beakers they buried with their dead, suggesting an early belief in the afterlife.

More on the latest Stonehenge research here.

Stonehenge has always mystified. Julius Caesar thought it was the work of druids, medieval scholars believed it was the handiwork of Merlin, while local folk tales simply blamed the devil. Now scientists are demanding a full-scale research programme be launched to update our knowledge of the monument and discover precisely who built it and its burial barrow graves. This is the key recommendation of Stonehenge: an Archaeological Research Framework, edited by Timothy Darvill of Bournemouth University, soon to be published by English Heritage. It highlights serious flaws in our knowledge of the monument, which is now a World Heritage Site. 'Stonehenge has not been well served by archaeology,' admitted Dr David Miles, chief archaeology adviser to English Heritage. 'Much of the area was excavated in the 19th century, when gentleman amateurs - glorified treasure-hunters, really - would get their labourers to dig great trenches straight into its barrows and graves.