tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post1489377632709925527..comments2024-03-28T14:00:12.372+00:00Comments on Stonehenge and the Ice Age: Stonehenge: cremated remains from West Wales?BRIAN JOHNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-88407435000984438132016-06-14T16:38:32.038+01:002016-06-14T16:38:32.038+01:00The archaeology research work took 4 years.
Have ...The archaeology research work took 4 years.<br /><br />Have read elsewhere that researchers at Teeside Unversity looked at how hot the cremation fires were, and how long the bones were in there for:-<br /><br />bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-35461309<br /><br />Read somewhere else, in Mike Pitts' Digging Deeper blogsite, 2016/02/03, that a research report is due out later in 2016.TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-48494431390636956132016-06-13T17:45:13.067+01:002016-06-13T17:45:13.067+01:00Seems rather fey for brawny, ?bluestone - carrying...Seems rather fey for brawny, ?bluestone - carrying, proto - Welsh boyos to be carrying little leather bags too, but I guess it would be understandable if, after one hundred and forty miles of heavy lifting, that their wrists would be rather weak...... TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-72234235287493303852016-06-12T21:07:53.952+01:002016-06-12T21:07:53.952+01:00Hi Brian.
Some of the remains in the Aubreys pre-...Hi Brian.<br /><br />Some of the remains in the Aubreys pre-date those holes by between 3- and 500 years, so it's possible some were carried from the West.<br /><br />We know they liked to curate stuff, as shown in the cattle-skulls which flanked the Southern Causeway, so it's not a far stretch to think they lumbered around the countryside with a bag full of Ugge the Magnificent.<br /><br />NeilND Wisemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11925248433335448747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-46257656914955772972016-06-12T10:02:45.886+01:002016-06-12T10:02:45.886+01:00Do they represent a mass migration from the far we...Do they represent a mass migration from the far west, and did they carry the remains of their ancestors with them, in little leather bags?BRIAN JOHNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00413447032454568083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-74316981822417746052016-06-12T09:06:35.646+01:002016-06-12T09:06:35.646+01:00There are 3,300 notable people's remains burie...There are 3,300 notable people's remains buried at Westminster Cathedral. So said the Dean on Radio 2 today. Presumably royals, scientists, poets, writers, satirists....TonyHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228690739485734684.post-61504913388531171062016-06-10T18:33:57.352+01:002016-06-10T18:33:57.352+01:00A little more nuanced..... and cautious..... in MP...A little more nuanced..... and cautious..... in MPP's last book offering, page 77 of "Stonehenge: making sense of a Prehistoric Mystery", Archaeology For All, Council for British Archaeology, 2015:-<br /><br />"Strontium isotope analysis of the teeth of two cows buried in the ditch at Stonehenge shows that on of them was raised in western Britain.....it could well have come from Pembrokeshire. Christopher Snoeck, a researcher at Oxford University, has discovered that some of the people whose cremated remains were buried at Stonehenge also came from Western Britain."<br /><br />Pages 70 to 80 of Chapter 3, 'Stonehenge & Society' cover most of MPP's ruling hypothesis bluestone notion.TonyHnoreply@blogger.com