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    History - Bronze Age

    4 October 2024 (by admin)

    This week, we learned how beliefs were shown in the Bronze Age.

    We looked closely at Stonehenge and discussed that nobody knows the true purpose of this astonishing site. Many findings suggest that it might have been used to worship the sun and for burials.

    We also discovered that some historians link Stonehenge to the sun which was important to people at the end of the Stone Age and this seems to continue into the Early Bronze Age as well.

    We looked at the images of objects from the Bronze Age. The most sought-after objects were made of gold, bronze or amber – all the colour of the sun. They tended to be buried with people when they died