My name is Michael Bott (with the cap) and it has been my privilege to partner my pal Rupert Soskin (with the shades) in the making of an amazing and unique film, Standing with Stones.
It is clear to see from internet postings alone, the numbers of people who are captivated by so many different aspects [...]
Survey of landscape suggests prehistoric monument was surrounded by two circular hedges
ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT THE GUARDIAN
The Monty Python knights who craved a shrubbery were not so far off the historical mark: archaeologists have uncovered startling evidence of The Great Stonehenge Hedge.
Inevitably dubbed Stonehedge, the evidence from a new survey of the Stonehenge landscape suggests that [...]
Earlier in the year, filming took place of the finale episode of series five and one of the film locations was Stonehenge. Here are a few amateur pics taken on the night – courtesy of someone called Scooty – you can see his Doctor Who photos here.
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Letters found in the British Library suggest that Silbury Hill in Wiltshire may originally have been built around a 40ft “totem pole”.
The two letters, from 1776, were written by Edward Drax of Bath, who hired miners to dig a shaft in Europe’s largest prehistoric man-made mound.
They detailed the discovery of a “perpendicular [...]
ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT THE HINDU
Stonehenge may have been used as a site where knowledge was communicated ritually, according to a new theory.
Lynne Kelly, La Trobe University doctoral researcher and science writer, has been working on technologies oral cultures used to present and pass on scientific knowledge.
Kelly demonstrated the constant changes in the archaeology at Stonehenge [...]
A SELECTION OF UNSOLICITORED VIEWERS COMMENTS ABOUT ‘STANDING WITH STONES’:
“CONGRATULATIONS! I can only say “Awesome”. Hailing from the South West of England – I played on Dartmoor and recognized some of the Devon, Cornwall and Somerset locations – your commentary provided insights that I haven’t appreciated for years. Some day I’m going to have to [...]
ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT ABOUT.COM
Michael Bott (director). 2009 (DVD). Standing With Stones – A Journey Through Megalithic Europe. Written and presented by Rupert Soskin, produced and directed by Michael Bott. 2 hours and 15 minutes, plus 1.5 hours of features. Illuminated Word, copyright 2007.
There are thousands upon thousands of megalithic monuments in England, Scotland, Ireland and [...]
Recently, there have been quite a few archaeological revelations coming to light from the result of a wildfire that swept the moors of Fylingdales, N. Yorkshire. One of the items discovered is a “unique” carved stone, thought to be 4,000 years old. An article about the stone (from CULTURE 24) is below but before reading that, [...]
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An iconic ancient monument uncovered by the tides on a Norfolk beach will soon be complete for the first time in a decade.
Scientists have been studying and preserving the Seahenge timber circle since it was excavated at Holme, near Hunstanton, in early 1999.
There were protests after archaeologists decided to [...]
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Archaeologists working on a rescue excavation in Westray have discovered a “mysterious” Neolithic structure at one of the county’s most important sites.
The announcement this week, followed the conclusion of a successful rescue excavation, led by Historic Scotland, at the Links of Noltland.
The project aimed to learn everything possible about [...]
Brewing Up a Civilization
By Frank Thadeusz READ ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT DER SPIEGEL
Did our Neolithic ancestors turn to agriculture so that they could be sure of a tipple? US Archaeologist Patrick McGovern thinks so. The expert on identifying traces of alcohol in prehistoric sites reckons the thirst for a brew was enough of an incentive to [...]
By Elizabeth Buie – read the complete original article here.
INTRODUCTION
On a remote Scottish island called Lewis, I leaned against a fifteen-foot standing stone and thought about another prehistoric site, twice as far south of me as Washington, DC is from Buffalo, New York. Vandalism and crowds, I knew, had prompted the caretakers of Stonehenge to begin keeping [...]
ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT ARCHAEOLOGY BRIEFS
The team who worked on the Stonehenge Riverside Project in 2009 are to return to their findings to explain the eating habits of the people who built and worshipped at the stone circle over four thousand years ago. Once again led by Professor Mike Parker Pearson from the University of Sheffield, [...]
ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT VIEWZONE.COM
Emerging archaeology in a new study highlighted by the Old Temples Study Foundation suggests that sound and a desire to harness its effects may have been equally important as vision in the design of humankind’s earliest ancient temples and monumental buildings.
Sarasota, FL (PRWEB) December 1, 2009 — Six-thousand-year-old ancient temples are giving [...]
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