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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Saturday 31 December 2011
Happy New Year!
Slabs of sea ice in pressure ridges in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.
Not sure who, in its wonderful creativity, Nature is aiming its Agincourt-style two-fingered gesture, but I'm sure lots of interesting suggestions will follow!!
Let's hope we all make our points just as effectively in 2012.
I prefer to see that as Churchillian V for Victory sign, when the metaphorical ice crumbles between the feet of the "Human Transport" boys as they trudge stubbornly onwards, sometime in the next Millenia (sorry, cannot be any more precise than that).
Not sure who, in its wonderful creativity, Nature is aiming its Agincourt-style two-fingered gesture, but I'm sure lots of interesting suggestions will follow!!
ReplyDeleteLet's hope we all make our points just as effectively in 2012.
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Hadn't even occurred to me... but I can see it when I look hard, and use a little imagination.....
ReplyDeleteI just saw the beauty...
I prefer to see that as Churchillian V for Victory sign, when the metaphorical ice crumbles between the feet of the "Human Transport" boys as they trudge stubbornly onwards, sometime in the next Millenia (sorry, cannot be any more precise than that).
ReplyDeleteBut it is also a beautiful scene to behold!