I will. I just caught the last 10 minute of it while channel surfing at bedtime. It was new information that I never heard of, but the theory was real cool.
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I will. I just caught the last 10 minute of it while channel surfing at bedtime. It was new information that I never heard of, but the theory was real cool.
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So much about our planet's history we don't know and are denied...
Archaeologists unearth Neolithic henge at Stonehenge
The new "henge" is about 900m (2,950ft) from the giant stones.
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Archaeologists have discovered a second henge at Stonehenge, described as the most exciting find there in 50 years.
The circular ditch surrounding a smaller circle of deep pits about a metre (3ft) wide has been unearthed at the world-famous site in Wiltshire.
Archaeologists conducting a multi-million pound study believe timber posts were in the pits.
Project leader Professor Vince Gaffney, from the University of Birmingham, said the discovery was "exceptional".
The new "henge" - which means a circular monument dating to Neolithic and Bronze Ages - is situated about 900m (2,950ft) from the giant stones on Salisbury Plain.
It's a timber equivalent to Stonehenge”End Quote Professor Vince Gaffney University of Birmingham
Images show it has two entrances on the north-east and south-west sides and inside the circle is a burial mound on top which appeared much later, Professor Gaffney said...............
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Firebird
I LOVE hearing about stuff like this!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I do believe that the Earth has been "visited." But I guess that I have more faith in human ingenuity than to think that most of ancient man's wonders were actually those of aliens. Look at our civilization--we've done some terrible and some wonderful things. Perhaps future historians will look at our civilization and wonder how we came up with computers and atomic bombs and then wonder what aliens gave us this technology!
Now I AM willing to entertain the "ancient astronaut" theory in some cases. But you know, God created man, and what a remarkable species we are. I wouldn't sell humankind short.
Demi-God
i would love to see adam's calendar too...so many iinteresting things to seeOriginally Posted by fabucat
LOOK UP! IT'S ALL ABOUT THE SUN!
'God' is the infinite universe. We came from the universe. We are part of 'God'... JMO
Sage
Now that is an excellent post fabucat and it echoes my beliefs almost exactly!
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Just thought I would throw out something else. The original article mentions modern pagans worhshipping there. Scuttle I hear in the pagan circles I am connected to is that the energy left in stonehenge is not very strong any longer, although it is still a great place to visit. For example: my Coven sister went there and was allowed full access (inside the fence) and she said that many other smaller monuments have a much more powerful energy. In particular, there was this one spot with an ancient well that was strong- wish I could remember the name. Pictures she took there show TONS of orbs all around her, but ths same camera in other areas did not show this.
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Evidence of Sophisticated, Ancient, Unknown Cultures in North Americal
i thought this information was interesting
Great read and find py!!
Notice how little these findings are discussed or acknowledged anywhere.
I think you should forward this to George as a show suggestion. Previous shows have touched on this, however I don't remember ever hearing a full show dedicated to this topic.
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I honestly don't think they will find anything of significance by doing this. Markings and/or "graffiti" ....don't think so
Laser scan for Stonehenge secrets
Stonehenge is being scanned using modern laser technology to search for hidden clues about how and why it was built.
All visible faces of the standing and fallen stones, many of which are obscured by lichen, will be surveyed.
Some ancient carvings have previously been found on the stones, including a famous Neolithic "dagger".
The survey is already in progress and is expected to finish by the end of March.
"The surfaces of the stones of Stonehenge hold fascinating clues to the past," said English Heritage archaeologist Dave Batchelor.
The team will be looking for ancient "rock art", but also for more modern graffiti, in a comprehensive survey of the site.........
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Very interesting find IMO.....what is this telling us?
Secret history of Stonehenge revealed
Ancient site may have been place of worship 500 years before the first stone was erected
Extraordinary new discoveries are shedding new light on why Britain’s most famous ancient site, Stonehenge, was built – and when.
Current research is now suggesting that Stonehenge may already have been an important sacred site at least 500 years before the first Stone circle was erected – and that the sanctity of its location may have determined the layout of key aspects of the surrounding sacred landscape.
What’s more, the new investigation – being carried out by archaeologists from the universities’ of Birmingham, Bradford and Vienna – massively increases the evidence linking Stonehenge to pre-historic solar religious beliefs. It increases the likelihood that the site was originally and primarily associated with sun worship
The investigations have also enabled archaeologists to putatively reconstruct the detailed route of a possible religious procession or other ritual event which they suspect may have taken place annually to the north of Stonehenge.
That putative pre-historic religious ‘procession’ (or, more specifically, the evidence suggesting its route) has implications for understanding Stonehenge’s prehistoric religious function – and suggests that the significance of the site Stonehenge now occupies emerged earlier than has previously been appreciated.
The crucial new archaeological evidence was discovered during on-going survey work around Stonehenge in which archaeologists have been ‘x-raying’ the ground, using ground-penetrating radar and other geophysical investigative techniques. As the archaeological team from Birmingham and Vienna were using these high-tech systems to map the interior of a major prehistoric enclosure (the so-called ‘Cursus’) near Stonehenge, they discovered two great pits, one towards the enclosure’s eastern end, the other nearer its western end.
When they modelled the relationship between these newly-discovered Cursus pits and Stonehenge on their computer system, they realised that, viewed from the so-called ‘Heel Stone’ at Stonehenge, the pits were aligned with sunrise and sunset on the longest day of the year – the summer solstice (midsummer’s day). The chances of those two alignments being purely coincidental are extremely low.
The archaeologists then began to speculate as to what sort of ritual or ceremonial activity might have been carried out at and between the two pits. In many areas of the world, ancient religious and other ceremonies sometimes involved ceremonially processing round the perimeters of monuments. The archaeologists therefore thought it possible that the prehistoric celebrants at the Cursus might have perambulated between the two pits by processing around the perimeter of the Cursus.
Initially this was pure speculation – but then it was realized that there was, potentially a way of trying to test the idea. On midsummer’s day there are in fact three key alignments – not just sunrise and sunset, but also midday (the highest point the sun reaches in its annual cycle). For at noon the key alignment should be due south.
One way to test the ‘procession’ theory (or at least its route) was for the archaeologists to demonstrate that the midway point on that route had indeed a special relationship with Stonehenge (just as the two pits – the start and end point of the route – had). The ‘eureka moment’ came when the computer calculations revealed that the midway point (the noon point) on the route aligned directly with the centre of Stonehenge, which was precisely due south.
This realization that the sun hovering over the site of Stonehenge at its highest point in the year appears to have been of great importance to prehistoric people, is itself of potential significance. For it suggests that the site’s association with the veneration of the sun was perhaps even greater than previously realized.
But the discovery of the Cursus pits, the discovery of the solar alignments and of the putative ‘processional’ route, reveals something else as well – something that could potentially turn the accepted chronology of the Stonehenge landscape on its head.
For decades, modern archaeology has held that Stonehenge was a relative latecomer to the area – and that the other large monument in that landscape – the Cursus – pre-dated it by up to 500 years.
However, the implication of the new evidence is that, in a sense, the story may have been the other way round, i.e. that the site of Stonehenge was sacred before the Cursus was built, says Birmingham archaeologist, Dr. Henry Chapman, who has been modelling the alignments on the computerized reconstructions of the Stonehenge landscape
The argument for this is simple, yet persuasive. Because the ‘due south’ noon alignment of the ‘procession’ route’s mid-point could not occur if the Cursus itself had different dimensions, the design of that monument has to have been conceived specifically to attain that mid-point alignment with the centre of Stonehenge.
What’s more, if that is so, the Stonehenge Heel Stone location had to have been of ritual significance before the Cursus pits were dug (because their alignments are as perceived specifically from the Heel Stone).
Those two facts, when taken together, therefore imply that the site, later occupied by the stones of Stonehenge, was already sacred before construction work began on the Cursus. Unless the midday alignment is a pure coincidence (which is unlikely), it would imply that the Stonehenge site’s sacred status is at least 500 years older than previously thought – a fact which raises an intriguing possibility.
For 45 years ago, archaeologists found an 8000 BC Mesolithic (‘Middle’ Stone Age) ritual site in what is now Stonehenge’s car park. The five thousand year gap between that Mesolithic sacred site and Stonehenge itself meant that most archaeologists thought that ‘sacred’ continuity between the two was inherently unlikely. But, with the new discoveries, the time gap has potentially narrowed. Indeed, it’s not known for how long the site of Stonehenge was sacred prior to the construction of the Cursus. So, very long term traditions of geographical sanctity in relation to Britain’s and the world’s best known ancient monument, may now need to be considered.
The University of Birmingham Stonehenge area survey - the largest of its type ever carried out anywhere in the world – will take a further two years to complete, says Professor Vince Gaffney, the director the project.
Virtually every square meter in a five square mile area surrounding the world most famous pre-historic monument will be examined geophysically to a depth of up to two metres, he says.
It’s anticipated that dozens, potentially hundreds of previously unknown sites will be discovered as a result of the operation.
The ongoing discoveries in Stonehenge’s sacred prehistoric landscape – being made by Birmingham’s archaeologists and colleagues from the University of Vienna’s Ludwig Boltzmann Institute – are expected to transform scholars’ understanding of the famous monument’s origins, history and meaning.
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Series of 15 photographs here:
Photographer Marc Bower-Briggs paints Stonehenge with light
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Well here's another theory.....
So THAT'S where the rocks for Stonehenge came from 5,000 years ago
- Discovery paves way to new understanding of how stones were transported
For centuries, scientists and historians have argued over why Stonehenge was built and, even more puzzlingly, how.
They are now closer to cracking one aspect of the mystery after working out the exact spot where some of the rocks came from.
The 5,000-year-old circle of stones – thought at various times to have been a temple of healing, a calendar, or even a royal cemetery – have been traced to an outcrop 150 miles away in north Pembrokeshire.
Pont Saeson: The origin of the Stonehenge Bluestones
Mystery solver: Dr Bevins explains that his discovery could help explain how and why the stones were taken to the Wiltshire site
Dr Richard Bevins of the National Museum of Wales and Dr Robert Ixer at Leicester University narrowed down the source of the rocks, – called rhyolites – to the 70m-long (0.04 miles) area called Craig Rhos-y-Felin after testing thousands of samples and finding a match.
He said the breakthrough would help experts work out how they were moved to the site in Wiltshire, which attracts more than a million tourists a year.
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Archaeologists have long suspected that the 82 bluestones, each weighing up to four tonnes, originated in the Preseli hills in Wales but this is the first time their origin has been pinpointed so accurately.
The next step is to look for evidence of quarrying at this site in search of more details as to how the stones were rolled, sledged and rafted down the River Avon to their final destination by early Britons.
It could debunk another theory that the rocks were not transported by humans at all but by the movement of glaciers during the Ice Age several millennia earlier.
This map details the whereabouts of the Stonehenge rocks
The team used special geological equipment to compare the bluestones with several outcrops in the area over nine months.
All but four could be matched to one specific site near the village of Pont Saeson.
Dr Bevins said: ‘What this means is that the area is now small enough for archaeologists to excavate to try and uncover evidence for associated human activity, so providing another strand of the story of how the stones from Pembrokeshire reached Stonehenge.’ Dr Ixer described the find, published yesterday in the journal Archaeology in Wales, as ‘quite unexpected and exciting’.
And Stonehenge expert Professor Geoff Wainwright, former chief archaeologist at English Heritage, said it was a ‘scientific triumph’.
‘It does not discredit any previous work, it gives archaeologists an area to focus on,’ he said. ‘It’s still something of a mystery but we are now a step closer to getting the answers.’
Exhaustive search: One researcher likened the discovery to finding a needle in a haystack
Archaeologist Julian Richards, presenter of the BBC’s Meet the Ancestors, told the Daily Mail: ‘This is very interesting and narrows the search down, but the Holy Grail is to find a stone along the way, which could have dropped off the sledge, which could show us how it was achieved.’
A ditch and bank were created at Stonehenge around 3000BC and it was used as a burial ground. It is thought all the stones, made from volcanic rock harder than granite, were brought there around 2600BC and placed in two circles.
The final stage was around 200 years later when ancient Britons mined sarcen stones from Marlborough – 25 miles away – and are thought to have brought them on sledges. They believed the stones had supernatural or healing power and were prepared to go to extreme lengths to harness it.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...#ixzz1h5QIevR3
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