when the massive mountains of sheet ice that were then blocking England and France melted .
around 12,000 B.C. After their safe journey through the barrens, people came from the .
mainland, and had great influence on those already living there.
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The first Tribe involved in the construction of Stonehenge was the Windmill Hill Tribe .
who arrived in the Neolithic Era of time. These people were semi-nomadic agriculturalists who .
mainly just fed and maintained their flocks of cattle, sheep, goats, and wild dogs. Not .
only were they agriculturalist, but they also hunted, mined for flint, crafted and bartered axes, and .
could almost be called early industrialists. The Windmill Hill people had a very strong ties and .
beliefs in their religion with a great respect for their dead and their ancestors. They have .
exceptional collective graves, in the form of long burrows, or long manmade piles of dirt, .
sometimes 400 feet long. Many riches such as food, tools, and pottery were buried with the dead. .
The next group to contribute to Stonehenge was the Beaker people; known for the .
beaker-like pottery they would frequently bury with their dead. These people did not practice the .
ritual of collective burials, rather single or double burials, and the dead were accompanied by .
more items used as weapons during the time, such as daggers and battleaxes. These single burials .
were in the form of round barrows. The Beaker people were well organized, active, and powerful, .
and also probably more territorial. They practiced commerce with other cultures, and their graves .
give an impression of there being an aristocracy in the society. .
The last major group to put time into the construction of Stonehenge was the Wessex Tribe. .
They arrived on Salisbury plain around 1450 B.C., and were involved in building the most .
prominent part of Stonehenge, the great stone circles. These people were well organized, and .
probably less aggressive or assertive than their predecessors, while more industrious with the .