New Stonehenge theory

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Scientists announce Stonehenge discovery: We know why it was built | The Bunsen Burner

The headline is odd, since of course they don't KNOW, they're just floating a new theory.

Dismissing fanciful claims that Stonehenge’s origins require exotic explanation, such as alien or Egyptian influence, Parker Pearson explains that Stonehenge’s characteristics are clearly appropriate to its time and place.

“All the architectural influences for Stonehenge can be found in previous monuments and buildings within Britain, with origins in Wales and Scotland. In fact, Britain’s Neolithic people were isolated from the rest of Europe for centuries. Britain may have become unified but there was no interest in interacting with people across the Channel. Stonehenge appears to have been the last gasp of this Stone Age culture, which was isolated from Europe and from the new technologies of metal tools and the wheel,” Parker Pearson says.

The team noted that such a massive undertaking at the time would have required vast resources and thousands of workers. The researchers say the vast resources required to build the monument would have likely served as a unifying force among the people in the area.
 
it would have been a central place to go to know about crop planting and crop bartering too.

i bet it served many purposes
 
It is one of the most enchanting places I have ever had the privilege to visit. Such a pity that so many of the original stones were broken up before they realized what a monumental achievement it was.
 
It was invented by bong smoking hippies who got bored after making too many crop circles.

They call it the Stone Age for a reason.....
 
This video is great. This guy in Michigan shows how to move stones such as those used at Stonehenge, without using any modern tools.

Great stuff.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRDzFROMx0]Building Stonehenge - This Man can Move Anything - YouTube[/ame]
 
This video is great. This guy in Michigan shows how to move stones such as those used at Stonehenge, without using any modern tools.

Great stuff.

Building Stonehenge - This Man can Move Anything - YouTube

There's a documentary about the stones... including where they were originally hewn in Wales.... which is hundreds of miles away from the structure. It shows how they moved them across the country, across the Bristol Channel, so they needed to float them across that... absolutely fucking amazing - the engineering skill of these people was exceptional.
 
This video is great. This guy in Michigan shows how to move stones such as those used at Stonehenge, without using any modern tools.

Great stuff.

Building Stonehenge - This Man can Move Anything - YouTube

There's a documentary about the stones... including where they were originally hewn in Wales.... which is hundreds of miles away from the structure. It shows how they moved them across the country, across the Bristol Channel, so they needed to float them across that... absolutely fucking amazing - the engineering skill of these people was exceptional.
Yeah, beyond cool....
 
Thing with Stonehenge is that it is one in a series of stone circles that are aligned across the country. Just the other week, there was this really interesting program showing the path between each circle from the air. Really interesting.

Of course, the whole of this area of England is covered in neolithic monuments... ancient stone circles, burial mounds, carving into the hillsides and shit. Very cool.
 
This video is great. This guy in Michigan shows how to move stones such as those used at Stonehenge, without using any modern tools.

Great stuff.

Building Stonehenge - This Man can Move Anything - YouTube

There's a documentary about the stones... including where they were originally hewn in Wales.... which is hundreds of miles away from the structure. It shows how they moved them across the country, across the Bristol Channel, so they needed to float them across that... absolutely fucking amazing - the engineering skill of these people was exceptional.
Yeah, beyond cool....

I drive past the stones almost every week... I have yet to tire of seeing that thing. It is so amazing.
 
Has anyone or an organization ever consider building full size replicate of what the building probably looked like?
 
Granny says, "Dat's right - prob'ly fer the politicians an' Wall St. bankers o' their day...
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Stonehenge may have started as a giant graveyard for elite
March 9, 2013 - Archeologists believe the famous Stone Age monument in Southern England may have started as a burial site for elite families.
Archeologists believe the site of Stonehenge may have been a giant graveyard for elite families about 500 years before the famous Stone Age monument we know today was built, BBC reported.

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A woman dances as druids, pagans and revellers take part in a winter solstice ceremony at Stonehenge on December 21, 2012 in Wiltshire, England.

The Guardian said archeologists from across Britain examined the cremated remains of 63 individuals dug up from the site and concluded they were buried around 3,000 B.C. “These were men, women, children, so presumably family groups,” University College London professor Mike Parker Pearson was quoted by the Associated Press as saying. “We’d thought that maybe it was a place where a dynasty of kings was buried, but his seemed to be much more of a community, a different kind of power structure.”

Pearson also has a new theory for the purpose of Stonehenge, which is located in Southern England. Rather than a place of worship, Pearson believes it was a “building project that served to unite people from across Britain,” the AP said. Evidence gathered during an earlier excavation of a settlement located near Stonehenge suggest people came from as far as Scotland to build the monument over a number of years, the Guardian said.

Studies of animal remains found at the site suggest the builders brought their livestock and families for “huge feasts and celebrations” during the winter and summer solstices, the AP said.

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Researchers say crystal found at bottom of English Channel may be a fabled sunstone
March 8,`13 — A rough, whitish block recovered from an Elizabethan shipwreck may be a sunstone, the fabled crystal believed by some to have helped Vikings and other medieval seafarers navigate the high seas, researchers say.
In a paper published earlier this week, a Franco-British group argued that the Alderney Crystal — a chunk of Icelandic calcite found amid a 16th century wreck at the bottom of the English Channel — worked as a kind of solar compass, allowing sailors to determine the position of the sun even when it was hidden by heavy cloud, masked by fog, or below the horizon.

That’s because of a property known as birefringence, which splits light beams in a way that can reveal the direction of their source with a high degree of accuracy. Vikings may not have grasped the physics behind the phenomenon, but that wouldn’t present a problem. “You don’t have to understand how it works,” said Albert Le Floch, of the University in Rennes in western France. “Using it is basically easy.”

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This photo taken in Alderney, one of the Channel Islands, dated June 2012 and released on Friday March 8, 2013 by scientist Guy Ropars shows the Alderney Crystal, a piece of calcite. Researchers say the rough, whitish crystal recovered from the wreckage of 16th century English warship may be a sunstone, a special kind of mineral believed by some to have helped medieval seafarers navigate the high seas.

Vikings were expert navigators — using the sun, stars, mountains and even migratory whales to help guide them across the sea — but some have wondered at their ability to travel the long stretches of open water between Greenland, Iceland, and Newfoundland in modern-day Canada. Le Floch is one of several who’ve suggested that calcite crystals were used as navigational aids for long summer days in which the sun might be hidden behind the clouds. He said the use of such crystals may have persisted into the 16th century, by which time magnetic compasses were widely used but often malfunctioned.

Le Floch noted that one Icelandic legend — the Saga of St. Olaf — appears to refer to such a crystal when it says that Olaf used a “sunstone” to verify the position of the sun on a snowy day. But that’s it. Few other medieval references to sunstones have been found, and no such crystals have ever been recovered from Viking tombs or ships. Until the Alderney Crystal was recovered in 2002, there had been little if any hard evidence to back the theory.

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This video is great. This guy in Michigan shows how to move stones such as those used at Stonehenge, without using any modern tools.

Great stuff.

Building Stonehenge - This Man can Move Anything - YouTube

There's a documentary about the stones... including where they were originally hewn in Wales.... which is hundreds of miles away from the structure. It shows how they moved them across the country, across the Bristol Channel, so they needed to float them across that... absolutely fucking amazing - the engineering skill of these people was exceptional.

the engineering skill of these people was exceptional? only if you previously thought of them as backwards nincompoops.

and yes there are a few PBS/Leftie programs on this...
The new theory story is just another in a long list of theories and stories...more on the stories side The Bunsen Burner | | Monday, June 25, 2012
 
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