People gathered for great meat feasts at end of British bronze age, study shows

One of the midden sites being excavated. Evidence suggests people travelled from far and wide, much like modern festivals. Photograph: Cardiff University/Richard Madgwick.

These days, revellers converge on the West Country from all parts of the UK and beyond to take part in the wonderful craziness of the Glastonbury festival.

It turns out that at the end of the bronze age – also a time of climatic and economic crisis – the same sort of impulse gripped people.