ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY
Led by Professor Mike Parker-Pearson of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sheffield, archaeologists from several institutions have discovered a lost stone circle a mile from Stonehenge, on the west bank of the River Avon.
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the project team have discovered stones [...]
ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT THE HERITAGE JOURNAL
The recent Tara symposium contained a paper entitled; “A study of the morphology, metrology and archaeoastronomy of the Iron Age enclosure, Lismullin, Co. Meath”, given by Frank Prendergast, of the Dublin Institute of Technology. Frank Prendergast is an authority on the archaeoastronomy of Irish monuments, that is, the ways in [...]
ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT SOCYBERTY.COM
The Neolithic Revolution represents the greatest turning point in the history of civilisation, and shaped the future of mankind. In this article we’ll take a look at how and why it happened.
(This article stands as an introduction to a series the author is writing called Lost Civilisations).
The Neolithic Revolution was the first and [...]
From time to time I use Twitter to find good and like-minded folk out there who may help in spreading the word about our DVD. And that’s how I came across Caitlin Fitzsimmons, a professional writer based in San Fransisco. I highly recommend you take a look at her travel/food blog ‘Roaming Tales‘.
I say this [...]
Nice little accolade to be included on this award winning and popular site. Thanks to MARK FRAUENFELDER for the post and of course for the added publicity. It’s amazing how keen people are to have a look at a DVD about Standing Stones once the know such a thing exists! Anyway, link to the post is [...]
Over at the Wessex Archaeology blog archaeologist Tom Goskar has posted this wonderful 3D flyby of the Stonehenge landscape:
A Virtual Stonehenge Landscape from Wessex Archaeology on Vimeo.
He writes:
“We have recently finished creating a short animation for the exhibition “Making History: Antiquaries In Britain, 1707–2007” at the Royal Academy in London. The three minute video demonstrates “Stonehenge [...]
Just sit back and enjoy this film by Tony Partington. As a film maker myself, I am a bit in awe of the vision, craft and patience needed to get results like this.
I advise you watch it in full-screen mode.
“Lapse of Memory” aims to give a new visual perspective on some of the prehistoric sites [...]
Here’s an account by Steve Mansfield-Devine of his visit to the ‘Côte des Mégalithes’ and, of course, Carnac in particular. This is the first in a series of eight posts at his fascinating blog, The Human Landscape. The full series can be seen here and I do recommend having a look – especially if you are [...]
Here is an excerpt from a lovely article (full post here) by Laurel Kallenbach on her blog ‘Laurel’s Compass’. It is an account of her first visit to a stone circle, Beltany Circle in County Donegal.
“Visiting my first-ever Neolithic circle of standing stones—Beltany Circle—is inextricably linked in my memory with another far more terrifying first: [...]
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