Special guest post by EDWARD PEGLAR (from ARMCHAIR PREHISTORY)
How didn’t the Preseli bluestones get to Stonehenge?
Ask your maths teacher.
I run the risk of posting on an often repeated topic, but here’s my opinion for what it’s worth.
The late Neolithic temple (or whatever) of Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain, England, is constructed from two types of stones. [...]
FROM LOST IN FRANCE
Humans have occupied Armorica since the Palaeolithic era. Living originally as hunter gatherers, the population became settled in the Neolithic period (around 4500 BC), gradually mastering the techniques of raising livestock, cultivating crops and building.
This was the civilisation that created the tradition of standing stones. Most of the megaliths (dolmens, tumulus, and [...]
FROM ARCHAEOLOGY.ORG by Sandra Scham
Turkey’s 12,000-year-old stone circles were the spiritual center of a nomadic people.
At first glance, the fox on the surface of the limestone pillar appears to be a trick of the bright sunlight. But as I move closer to the large, T-shaped megalith, I find it is carved with an improbable menagerie. [...]
COMPLETE ARTICLE by Sarah Head AT MERCIAN MUSE
When an opportunity arose to greet the sunrise at Stonehenge, I jumped at it. Never an early riser, the winter months appeared to give ample time to welcome the light at a reasonable hour. As the date grew closer, a welcoming bed and breakfast was booked in Salisbury [...]
ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT BBC KENT
In the lower Medway valley, on both sides of the river, are a number of large sarsen stones which are collectively known as The Medway Megaliths. They were moved there between 2500-1700 BC and were part of Neolithic, chambered long barrows, which were ancient burial tombs.
The Medway Megaliths are the only [...]
ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT www.gadling.com
England is an old land where you can drink in the same pubs as the Crusaders did and watch a play in a Roman theater, so it’s a rare treat to touch or experience anything that can legitimately boast of being the “oldest.”
The Ridgeway Trail in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire in southern England [...]
COMPLETE ARTICLE BY Elyn Aviva HERE
It was a light and stormy night in late June, 2006, the second light and stormy night since we had arrived at the edge of nowhere. We had traveled for days to reach the Isle of Lewis, most northern isle of the Scottish Western Isles, to witness a rare astronomical [...]
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 [...]
PLEASE READ ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT ARCHAEOLOGY EXCAVATIONS
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 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 [...]
At first glance I thought this was just another of those modern follies but I soon realised that there is very serious intent behind this project and that this University of Liverpool experiment could very well answer some interesting questions about the construction of ancient sites. ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT ANTIQUITY.
BACKROUND
As part of its contribution towards [...]
THE FOLLOWING POST IS AN AMALGAM OF TWO ARTICLES: ONE AT WORLD MONUMENTS FUND AND ONE AT EXPLOGUIDE
Scattered across 72 different locations along a remote mountain ridge, the Hintang Archaeological Landscape is a collection of prehistoric megalithic sites in northeastern Laos. Hidden throughout the region’s lush jungle vegetation and nearly inaccessible to the outside world [...]
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