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Stonehenge

Focus How did people set up all

the stones at Stonehenge? Stonehenge is a 5,000-year-old

e.g. They lifted the stones. site located in southern England. It

is the most famous group of large

standing stones in the world. The

builders may have been local

farmers and herders. The area was

used as a burial place. It may have

Scholars believe Stonehenge n. a place where people honor a god or gods in some religions
ancestor
temple
originally looked like the above. been a temple for sun or ancestor

worship.
worship n. a person in your family who lived in the past

n. the activity of expressing love and respect for a god

Unit 9 | Stonehenge