How much do we know about Stonehenge? Less than we think. And what has Stonehenge got to do with the Ice Age? More than we might think. This blog is mostly devoted to the problems of where the Stonehenge bluestones came from, and how they got from their source areas to the monument. Now and then I will muse on related Stonehenge topics which have an Ice Age dimension...
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Some of the ideas discussed in this blog are published in my new book called "The Stonehenge Bluestones" -- available by post and through good bookshops everywhere. Bad bookshops might not have it....
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Some of the ideas discussed in this blog are published in my new book called "The Stonehenge Bluestones" -- available by post and through good bookshops everywhere. Bad bookshops might not have it....
To order, click HERE
2 comments:
Brian,
What do you think of the article you posted as a link under your “News” section in your blog? The claim made there is that this stone alignment oriented with the summer solstice sun was made by Australian aborigines some 10,000 years ago as a sundial marking the passing of seasons! That is more than five thousand years older than the dates for Stonehenge!
Still insist that these stone alignments are evidence of 'superior Culture' and not 'exceptional Nature' as I claim? That prehistoric Australian aborigines 10,000 years ago were even more advanced than Neolithic Britons 5,000 years ago?
The time given in the article, however, matches very well with my claim that around 10,000 years ago and following the Younger Dryas, the earth was experiencing very unusual geomorphology involving ice sheets. Brian, as a geomorphologist you should especially be excited by this prospect!
Think outside the glacier ice box, Brian, to see the picture I am proposing! To paraphrase Frank Sinatra, “if I can make it here, I can make it anywhere”.
Constantinos
I didn't post this --Blogger does it automatically, whenever it finds anything related to Stonehenge! Interesting report -- rather wild speculation regarding age, but if it's true I don't have a problem with it. Why should ancient societies not have wanted to mark the cardinal compass points and rising / setting sun positions on the longest / shortest days of the year? Not difficult to do -- that just requires long observations. And if they then used these marker stones in their rituals, that's quite expected too.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with Stonehenge, and does nothing to confirm that there was any "unusual geomorphology" (whatever that is) going on.....
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