Why Was This Man Sacrificed at Stonehenge?

Discovered in a ditch at Stonehenge, a skeleton reveals signs of human sacrifice. Scientists puzzle over how and, more importantly, why it happened.
From the Series: Stonehenge Empire bit.ly/2wL6gRq

[@WickyGames]

I wouldve already have been dead from hypothermia

[@alex_theanonymous]

Sacrificial? The dramatization makes this look like a crazy uncle trying to gain power over the throne by murdering his nephew, the rightful heir to the kingdom

[@khadizaahmed8989]

Alejandra Barrera sounds like Shakespear

[@naverilllang]

You've been watching too much game of thrones, haven't you?

[@roxnpennies]

He most definitely would not be the first :-/

[@1-800-L0SER]

Sounds like Hamlett

[@legendarysixsamurai-shien402]

That's the last kingdom plot

[@CoRLex-jh5vx]

I love how the skull is just lookin right at the camera. if he could talk, he'd probably be saying "hi mum!!"

[@havasubooo8840]

would he have an accent?

[@KrishLius]

yea well he shouldn't have been ramming the shaman's daughter.

[@danlamont7133]

He regrets nothing

[@RPDBY]

its freezing outside and they dont wear almost anything

[@CoRLex-jh5vx]

well he's gonna die anyway

[@RealiciousDe]

he know the wae, he shall never freeze

[@muhammadanees7431]

"We don't know the Exact reason of the sacrifice '' Here you go I saved your 4.01 minutes of your life!

[@a_literal_brick]

Spend 10 years of your life studying a skeleton just so you can find out how he died and say “that’s neat”

[@colorbugoriginals4457]

You learn a lot along the way that can be applied to other further work.

[@nenabunena]

the 29 year old who was muscly looked like a scrawny 50 year old

[@dakota5671]

He was probably imprisoned before.

[@danlamont7133]

nenabunena Real muscly. Like a farmer. Not creatine, steroids and bench press muscly. He was also a couple of years off the life expectancy of his time so he wouldnt look like a modern 29 year old.

[@nenabunena]

I'm from the Philippines and I've seen some lean muscled type guys here who are carpenters, fishermen, etc. - they're not bulky like arnold but have a lean muscled physique. the guy on the video otoh is wiry thin & I've seen plenty of those to but we never descrive them as muscly. The life expectancy back then was short due to accidents, sickness/diseases, or war not because they were necessarily less healthy. hunter gatherers especially were usually in top physical condition & girls back then started their periods late around 18-19 unlike today where some even start at 9 years of age. so there are plenty of examples of people in todays world, not in frts world countries, who are farmers, fishermen, or who have to toil daily that you can use as examples of how life must've been for some people

[@mudan8152]

Yo why the fuck are you starting your paragraph with ''I'm from the Philippines'' .. Who the fuck cares if you're from the Philippines?

[@flashmanfred]

Does make me laugh how they depict southern England like Iceland or something

[@koil3s]

flashmanfred Iceland has fine weather.

[@ariannasilva4462]

flashmanfred Ancient Southern England was cold.

[@kenskaterskater3070]

flashmanfred and ppl running around half naked in the snow...

[@RikkiTheRose]

that was probably just a temporary snow the sacrifice could have been made to get it away

[@siy8230]

flashmanfred it was very snowy just a couple weeks ago

[@reksub10]

Or he was the last defender,a warrior who the enemy would have respected and honoured.

[@willfakaroni5808]

He would have had more damage to his skeleton

[@violetmagic13]

I’ve been to Stonehenge a few times now it’s really amazing. I don’t live very far away from it so it’s easy to visit. I highly recommend it. You feel a kind of presence there

[@grandmascheeks9129]

Did they use skyrim arrow sounds?

[@Aron-ru5zk]

Grandma's Cheeks sounds like it

[@sobanmirza2717]

@@Aron-ru5zk they did

[@Max0800]

No

[@itsmeanthony9704]

As an Irishman who knows of our ancestral religious methods, of over two thousand years. Our ancestors used Stonehenge, and Hill Tops for Sacrifice in order to create alignment with the ancient gods, the god of light, the god of prosperity, and the god of peace. As with all ancient religions there is a blood sacrifice that must suffice the gods.

[@SmithsonianChannel]

Why was a man sacrificed at Stonehenge?bit.ly/1uiTrpo Uncover the secrets of the ancient site, tonight at 8 PM on Stonehenge Empire.

[@jen8177]

Damn that cinematography

[@meow9426]

So no ones gonna talk about the fact that this man was shirtless in a snowstorm

[@vulkris]

A Cheeky Motherfucker That sexy nigga so hot he didnt need a shirt

[@meow9426]

Vulchrys He looks like my fucking uncle he aint how mans

[@SmithsonianChannel]

Stonehenge is a highly ritualized site - so the discovery of human remains there is seriously significant. bit.ly/1uiTrpo Find out what it all means tonight at 8 PM on Stonehenge Empire.

[@SmithsonianChannel]

Beneath the eerie ruins of #Stonehenge, a skeleton riddled with arrows hints at dark rituals. Was he a human sacrifice? Learn more on this clip from Stonehenge Empire, airing tonight 8 PM: bit.ly/1uiTrpo

[@Amooretliban]

She’s says we think of that time period as being brutish, and that it wasn’t. But goes on to tell us he was used for sacrifice and was shot repeatedly with arrows.

[@Yamswool]

When is the full video going to be shown?

[@kimberlybellard6972]

I love the sound of the drumbeats in the beginning

[@prithviganeais7844]

Reminds me of Whitewalkers. Very informative

[@5ooshAshk]

To create the Wights, well of course.

[@youropinionrejected6442]

Ash Dement what

[@Aj-tu4gv]

Mohammad Ashkanani game of thrones , undead being creature.

[@mp-ig6zb]

Was searching for this :D

[@maramtareq1948]

Winter is here😂

[@moreston4366]

I don't know alot about the Neolithic people of Britain but uhm, I'm pretty sure they would have had clothing more similar to the Inuits for y'know, when it was snowing, I doubt they walked about in loincloths with short tunics in the freezing snow.

[@burntferidgerator6848]

How about you prove that it wasn't battle and that he never could have been an important person who they buried there

[@e.d.bibbins3858]

Burnt Feridgerator Exactly what I was thinking. Bow seems an unlikely method of execution for anything.

[@burntferidgerator6848]

It's England for god sakes they would use swords or axes

[@Maikonix]

guessing he betrayed his tribe or let them down some how which was why he was executed in theory?

[@bernadettelevine4673]

Coral Castle n Key West was a man's "Devotion of Love"

[@trulympr4803]

So realistic I feel like it happened in front of my eyes

[@laikathunderchild5746]

King Gamer23 Thanks.....I haven’t literally “laughed out loud” for a while now 😆

[@jsmcguireIII]

In a snowstorm? And they know this how? Lol

[@Dont_tell_me_to_relax]

Why does my guy have such good teeth tho...

[@willfakaroni5808]

No sugar

[@intarc0giotto]

perhaps he had secret knowladge about stonehenge that had to die with him or it was a sacrafice to make stonehenge work.

[@eileenlocke7877]

Looks cold

[@yellowgreen6326]

the animation is impeccable

[@yellowgreen6326]

OH WAIT LOL THEY WERE ACTING ??

[@willfakaroni5808]

That’s live action

[@botcheek482]

THE ANIMATIONS ARE SO GUD

[@robothunter1035]

Hey Grogg, thanks for guiding that henge into the hole! Grogg? Grogg, you there?

[@itsyourmanr202]

“It’s brighter here!”

[@Jejak_Pengangguran]

British Stone Ages Family drama. Damn, poor young man.

[@torinjones3221]

Seems like an unusual method of sacrifice for sure

[@SeaToCloudsHD]

Maybe he was a vicious warrior that was defending the territory and his entire tribe is wiped out and he went into the center of the stone henge because it is the most important venue of his tribe and make his final standoff against the enemy, maybe he fought for several hours of melee combat killing many of his foes and the enemy realizing they could not defeat him this way, they finally decided to kill him using bow and arrows.

[@amezfires9247]

Could this be a sacrifice for a Druid ritual?

[@anniesearle6181]

Nope, too early, they didn't exist at this point

[@RealiciousDe]

but could it be as a payment for a pizza delivery order ?

[@rasiabsgamingcorner2258]

he could've been a voluntary sacrifice so that the crops the following year would be bountiful

[@anthonyfox585]

his teeth are in excellent condition

[@crizzm3lm863]

Better than mine

[@ranger3676]

This is a very nice skeleton very good condition. Skeleton: Poggers m8

[@eileenlocke7877]

They must of been cold 🥶

[@iverkjellkken6569]

Or he was a warrior that got killed in battle, and was buried near stonehenge due to his valiant death

[@funniguy3709]

-you guys wanna put some clothes on?-

[@Spaceman42069]

Its Cu Chullain when he was speared then tied himself to a rock and waited to die and as it happened a crow flew to his shoulder and the man who killed him went to check the body that still had the sword came down and chopped his hand off

[@eileenlocke7877]

Poor man rip

[@candysubstance1633]

Feathers?

[@BenjiYbanez]

Bruh I can’t even withstand the extreme cold temperatures

[@LilMissRedList]

Wait Stonehenge is in the Arctic?!

[@allmightlionthunder5515]

wow the first death by firing squid ? .

[@DoJoPetro]

So, the answer to the (seemingly rhetorical) question in the title is "scientific speculation" and _"We may never know?!"_

[@crazyirish209]

my 2 cents . He was a famous war chief and the druids who truly ran the isle at the time thought of him as a threat. They "got a vision" he needed to be sacrificed so they did. Ireland as almost always ben controled by religion .

[@amyblamberg1101]

Also.. Did it appear to anyone else that the skull was fractured from the nose inward? Overkill.

[@rand0m0mg]

It's The Doctor!

[@wildyoda2931]

Couldn't have been the druids because the way he died signifies it had to be for a different reason besides religious reasons. The druids didn't sacrifice people by shooting them with arrows. Also if the Stonehenge was a place the druids would occasionally make sacrifices at. Most likely there would not have been more than only one persons remains found in or around the Stonehenge area. Also one would have to look at what the druids sacrifices consisted of you cannot simply say it was a sacrifice with no evidence. I never heard of sacrifices carried out with arrows i would imagine the druids would have been much more gruesome.

[@anniesearle6181]

Well, I would have to agree with you, however, your entire argument is wrong. The druids didn't actually conduct this sacrifice because they didn't exist yet; the earliest this man could have died was on the stone-age/bronze age border and the latest about 200 years after that, so it was another culture entirely. There have also been many other sets of remains found at Stonehenge. What the video said was there aren't any other bodies of this 'type', as in sacrificed like this. There are over 50 other sets of cremated remains found in the post-holes of the original stone formation, this includes men, women and children, so it is possible they were sacrificed or possibly not, we'll never know.

[@maradensiregar8793]

This was Continental's method of execution

[@systemdeadlock]

How is that clear proof? Nice docu anyway

[@delphinebp9433]

Him: What would you call a music festival here? His buddies: Please don't... Him: STONEDHENGE! His buddies: ... Local druid: Well, we found our candidate for tuesday's sacrifice.

[@68wayupintheskyftw61]

Yeah I mean it's not like they might of just buried him there after he was killed by a rival group. That would be to outlandish.

[@idunaasgard1183]

Where's the Roman in this one?

[@altarush]

It could be just a tomb where he was buried and he might be a king of some sort and the arrows were result of a execution

[@anniesearle6181]

Do you mean Stonehenge itself?

[@wolfenstien13]

His teeth seems to look well for his age and era.

[@LetterSignedBy51SpiesWasA-Coup]

seems much more likely to have been an execution given sacrificial rituals would have produced more than one such example. click bait

[@Observer675]

I wonder if he was someone important that was executed. A bit like how st edmund (king at the time) was caught then shot to death with close range arrows in east anglia

[@aerohk]

Well the exact reason for the Stonehenge is also unknown, so...

[@fionaowen5164]

The arrows that killed him at the burial site ? If not would suggest a warrior who died in battle being buried in honour not a sacrifice just a thought

[@willfakaroni5808]

It coming from all sides would be unlikely if it was from a battle, since just a single one would have killed him

[@fionaowen5164]

@@willfakaroni5808 last man standing perhaps like an honour

[@willfakaroni5808]

@@fionaowen5164 at that point, it would count as a sacrifice

[@FfblastBlogspot]

Mordred

[@kevaran1422]

are they celts?

[@paulbrule5897]

Nikos Elizondo no older

[@ollie1154]

Celts is a massive grouping of different cultures united under a similar language effectively (really simple definition) Britons were Celts, Picts/Scots we’re Celts ect. So in short Celts aren’t one people, they just have similar cultures and languages.

[@UnholyTruth333]

A L I E N S

[@dansugardude2655]

If only it could be known what languages these people would've spoken. Also did prehistoric people have concepts of crime?

[@REHANKHAN-en5zn]

I'm robust, muscular and 5'10. OMG!😟

[@thothhermestrismegistus3178]

Stonehenge was built by Atlantians who enslaved Irish ancestors who built Stonehenge. The reason why they want to remove it is because of this connection. They used the Stone to watch the Stars for more Meteors, like the one which destroyed their Civilization 12,800 years ago.

[@bansheeboii5814]

what if he was the builder of the stone henge

[@danlamont7133]

So thats why he was muscular. He carried thousands of tons of stone from whales. Now it all make sense.

[@justinyang6521]

Last one alive in search a d destroy, no ammo, might as well give urself up.

[@sweiland75]

He was an outsider?

[@AquaMarino]

Game of Arrows

[@omega-myrrhalphahoney2307]

That's how.. Not why.

[@sophiehare2348]

Sacrifices are normally linked with paganism, especially if it's England, the man who touches the sacrifice was probably a druid

[@moreston4366]

sophie hare druids didn't exist yet, stonehenge wasn't used by Celts

[@goobers143]

A lot of speculation

[@user-zw4wh1tm9x]

didn't even show impact? disappointing

[@GameArchiver]

They were trying to create White Walkers.

[@mrward6510]

Or he was a common criminal executed in a court of sorts. 🤔

[@HarryInEdi]

I don't know what's up with all the feathers on that chief 'priest' or whatever he is... Seems like it's based on Native Americans!

[@ilyaakadishtungha7337]

Harry Goodwin I mean...if resources are scarce and you still haven't perfected jewel crafting well of course you'll put weird shit on your hair. Hell, it could have been ass hair for all we know but feathers certainly look prettier

[@kkroberts90]

^^what the dapperman said

[@rolffstone-fist1259]

Harry Goodwin god your stupid

[@bolinonyomama5640]

New Zealand Māori wore feathers in their hair as well.if this is legit than that's cool to know that ancient British tribes were similar to the rest of us!.

[@tonyraffetto931]

Fuckin metal

[@j.a.harbour5349]

Its very disrespectful to remove bones from a burial site, ancient or modern...

[@Foxglove963]

Why the heck did the Smithsonian obtain a plastic replica of a skeleton excavated from a ditch in Wiltshire? How many school shootings did they have in their twisted USA?

[@smarty1064]

why using arrow, they could just poision him...lol

[@pentirah5282]

We don't know for sure he was sacrificed. He was buried there.

[@thateastindieguy7330]

Ancient firing squad...

[@Voltaire8559]

They should have written something bout why theyr doin this :3 ya know wat im sayin?

[@plated3390]

I'm guessing that it was a public execution

[@LilrudolphAJ]

he looks like a white walker

[@Linogewillkillallofy]

lmao sacrificial with arrows eh

[@kylewhite711]

Firing squad

[@mesasantikant315]

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[@joannechisholm4501]

He died for his gods

[@antonioclemente897]

human sacrifices are done in desperation maybe they were starving to death and demanded good crops or maybe rain

[@enarjey9894]

Doesn't feel like a sacrifice. I think this young man may have been doing his own ritual or ceremony at this sacred site & was ambushed by foreigners.

[@davidfleming1115]

Are you into discriminating the deaf your CLOSE CAPTION ISN'T ON

[@fergalfarrelly8545]

Its political cuop. They may have over thrown an heir to rule or a young ruler. As he was burried respectfully and killed with ceromony. Speculativly.