Picture people 5,650 years ago gorging on huge amounts of beef, smashing large decorated bowls that may have held broth or other liquids and possibly smashing human skulls. They apparently did all this at a newly discovered ritual center near Stonehenge, built about 1,000 years before the stone circle was constructed. Archaeologists found human skull fragments from one person among the detritus in the 950-meter (1,038-yard) concentric circle that makes up the outer ring of the segmented ditches of the complex. They believe there are probably other skull fragments among the objects in the circles. So far archaeologists have excavated just about 100 meters (328 feet) of the outer ring, about 17 percent, says an article in The Independent about
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