Editing Stonehenge (section)

===Stonehenge III (megalithic structure)===
At the time the megalithic Stonehenge 3 II was constructed (2600–2400 BC) by Neolithic people, the [[Bell Beaker people]] arrived, around 2,500 BC, [[Pre-modern human migration|migrating]] from mainland Europe.<ref name="NHM">National History Museum (2021), [https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2021/february/ancient-burials-stonehenge-cultures-merged-in-bronze-age.htmlAncient ''Burials near Stonehenge reveal how cultures merged in the Bronze Age'']</ref> They lived side by side for ca. 500 years, with the Bell Beaker people probably incorporating the henge-structures into their belief-system.<ref name="NHM"/>

The earliest British individuals associated with the Beaker culture, most likely speakers of [[Indo-European languages]] whose ancestors migrated from the Pontic–Caspian steppe,<ref name="nhm.ac.uk">{{cite news |first=James |last=McNish |title=The Beaker people: a new population for ancient Britain |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2018/february/the-beaker-people-a-new-population-for-ancient-britain.html |work=[[Natural History Museum, London|Natural History Museum]] |date=22 February 2018}}</ref> were similar to those from the Rhine.<ref name="Needham 2005">{{cite journal |last1=Needham |first1=S. |year=2005 |title=Transforming Beaker Culture in North-West Europe: processes of fusion and fission |journal=Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society |volume=71 |pages=171–217 |doi=10.1017/s0079497x00001006 |s2cid=193226917}}</ref> Eventually, there was again a large population replacement in Britain.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Barras |first1=Colin |title=Story of most murderous people of all time revealed in ancient DNA |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24132230-200-story-of-most-murderous-people-of-all-time-revealed-in-ancient-dna/ |work=[[New Scientist]] |date=27 March 2019}}</ref> More than 90% of Britain's Neolithic gene pool was replaced with the arrival of the Bell Beaker people,<ref>[https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/05/09/135962 ''The Beaker Phenomenon And The Genomic Transformation Of Northwest Europe'' (2017)]</ref> who had approximately 50% [[Western Steppe Herders|WSH]] ancestry.<ref>{{Cite web |author=Bianca Preda |date=2020-05-06|title=Yamnaya – Corded Ware – Bell Beakers: How to conceptualise events of 5000 years ago |url=https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/news/language-culture/yamnaya-corded-ware-bell-beakers-how-to-conceptualise-events-of-5000-years-ago |website=The Yamnaya Impact On Prehistoric Europe |publisher=University of Helsinki}}</ref>