Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder Here's a topic that shouldn't cause any rancor. Scientists have unearthed a village near Stonehenge, adding a piece to the puzzle about that area. They've found houses and evidence of a road. Pretty cool stuff. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/01/30/stonehenge.village.ap/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/s cience/01/30/stonehenge.village.ap/index.html</a>
Originally Posted By DlandJB Very cool. In my childhood I very much wanted to be an archeologist. This stuff is just endlessly fascinating to me.
Originally Posted By DlandJB That is what is usually found in historic digs because what people threw away they usually just buried nearby. That's why so much pottery in places like Williamsburg is found broken. They are essentially digging through the trash. Imagine what the folks 200 years from now will think when they go through our trash.
Originally Posted By friendofdd I've only been privileged to visit there twice and am fascinated by the place. Just a couple of weeks ago I watched a progam about it on the Science Channel. It wasn't this up-to-date though. I will speculate that the two "separate" houses were owned by the Labour Party and the group houses by the Conservative Party.
Originally Posted By DAR That's very cool. However when it comes to Stonehenge this always comes to mind: David St. Hubbins: I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object. Ian Faith: I really think you're just making much too big a thing out of it. Derek Smalls: Making a big thing out of it would have been a good idea.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<Here's a topic that shouldn't cause any rancor.>> Maybe they abandoned the town because of global warming.
Originally Posted By DlandDug Here is a recent follow up on a related story I am sure many of you remember from last year: <a href="http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/amesbury/press/archer_feb_03_v1.html" target="_blank">http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/pr ojects/amesbury/press/archer_feb_03_v1.html</a> EXCERPT: >>The man who may have helped organise the building of Stonehenge was a settler from continental Europe, archaeologists say. The latest tests on the Amesbury Archer, whose grave astonished archaeologists last year with the richness of its contents, show he was originally from the Alps region, probably Switzerland, Austria or Germany. The tests also show that the gold hair tresses found in the grave are the earliest gold objects found in Britain. The grave of the Archer, who lived around 2,300BC, contained about 100 items, more than ten times as many objects as any other burial site from this time. When details were released, the media dubbed the Archer “The King of Stonehengeâ€.<<
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "..a prehistoric circular area with standing stone or wooden pillars and often enclosed by a bank or ditch, possibly used for rituals;"
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka I don't know but Stonehenge is one of the biggest henges in the world. No one's built a henge like that ever since.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder And I guess by definition there can be no more henges, because they are of prehistoric creation.
Originally Posted By CrouchingTigger If you build one now, it'll be prehistoric after the coming dark age, when Skynet takes over and the machines rise up against us.
Originally Posted By debtee Wow this is fasinating! Thanks for sharing the news. The first time I visited Stone Hendge I was a child and still remember the feelings associated with this place. I have been back a few times as an adult and the feelings are stronger. It's hard to describe unless you have been there, it seems to have it's own energy, sort of what people say after they have visited the Grand Canyon. After 911 they stopped the public getting up close to it which is a shame.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss Terrorists blowing up Stonehenge would be the dumbest attack I could imagine. It's not exactly like Las Vegas.
Originally Posted By jonvn One of the very few places I want to go visit is England, and one of the few things I want to see there is Twiggy. I mean Stonehenge. I think the place is really interesting. One day, I'll just up and buy a ticket and go. But such artifacts just totally amaze me. Thousands of years ago, these people built these things, and no one knows precisely who they were. Makes me wonder what will happen in a few thousands years from now. Are people going to remember this web site?
