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The Hua Phan Menhirs of Laos, South East Asia

The Hua Phan Menhirs of Laos, South East Asia

Posted 03 November 2009 | By Michael | Categories: Articles, Sites, Travel | No Comments

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 [...]

Hiking Into History: England’s Ancient Ridgeway Trail

Posted 31 October 2009 | By Michael | Categories: Articles, Travel | 2 Comments

ORIGINAL ARTICLE BY HENRY SHUKMAN AT THE NEW YORK TIMES

THE Ridgeway is the oldest continuously used road in Europe, dating back to the Stone Age. Situated in southern England, built by our Neolithic ancestors, it’s at least 5,000 years old, and may even have existed when England was still connected to continental Europe, and the Thames was [...]

Stunning time-lapse photography

Posted 05 May 2009 | By Michael | Categories: Blogs, News, Oddities, Other Videos, Travel, Websites | 3 Comments

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 [...]

Carnac – the megalithic motherlode

Carnac – the megalithic motherlode

Posted 15 April 2009 | By Michael | Categories: Blogs, Travel | No Comments

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 [...]

Standing Stones & Driving in Ireland

Posted 11 April 2009 | By Michael | Categories: Blogs, Travel | 3 Comments

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: [...]

Rupert at Guardian.co.uk

Posted 03 April 2009 | By Michael | Categories: News, Travel | No Comments

Ten of the best UK standing stones
Rupert Soskin has travelled the length and breadth of the UK and Ireland photographing megalithic sites. Here are his favourites
Article by Rupert at Guardian.co.uk
“Picking a top 10 from our wealth of prehistoric monuments is a little like choosing your favourite records of all time: almost impossible – it depends [...]