The Secrets of Stonehenge: A Time Team Special

This Time Team special is the televised culmination of six years of dedicated work by a vast team of archaeologists, headed by Professor Mike Parker Pearson.  Crucially digging not just Stonehenge itself, but the surrounding areas at Durrington Walls, new theories emerge which advocate a re-writing of the 'official' history of the area. 

 

The show seeks to establish Stonehenge as a monument to the ancestors but not the focal point of the area itself.  A cursus is said to separate the monument from Durrington henge in the north east, leading to two distinct areas in use at the time: one for the living and one a startling tribute to the dead.