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Archaeologists Dig at Stonehenge | Was ancient burial grounds

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  1. Celtkin

    Celtkin <B>Webmaster</b> Luxury Box

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    Some of England's most sacred soil was disturbed Monday for the first time in more than four decades as archaeologists worked to solve the enduring riddle of Stonehenge: When and why was the prehistoric monument built?

    The excavation project, set to last until April 11, is designed to unearth materials that can be used to establish a firm date for when the first mysterious set of bluestones was put in place at Stonehenge, one of Britain's best known and least understood landmarks.

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,344069,00.html
     
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  2. Motion

    Motion New Member

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    Interesting, wonder what they will find........
     
  3. JCowScot

    JCowScot So funky the dead dance

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    Probably more evidence that makes them go, "What the?!? Now I'm even MORE confused....."
     
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  4. Firesole

    Firesole Season Ticket Holder

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    I think they might find the hatch!

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  5. azfinfanmang

    azfinfanmang Premium Member Luxury Box

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    Interesting. I havent seen hyde nor hair of Whitedolphin54 in a few days.........

    Coincidense...I think NOT
     
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  6. CrunchTime

    CrunchTime Administrator Retired Administrator

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    I was reading some interesting tidbits about Stonehenge.It seems that complex is not only the stone structure that is commonly known.They are finding post holes in concentric patterns around the centre .The outer markers apparently made of wood
     
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  7. unluckyluciano

    unluckyluciano For My Hero JetsSuck

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    If it is a cultural center hopefully they find some writings of some sort...............
     
  8. CrunchTime

    CrunchTime Administrator Retired Administrator

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    The Celts and their priests the Druids did not have a written language.They expressed themselves through art .

    It was only after they became christianized that writing was introduced by the monks.In fact they came up with the Celt bible which is a beautifully adorned version of the roman bible.
     
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  9. JCowScot

    JCowScot So funky the dead dance

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    There was a special on Discovery (I think, or was it the History Channel??:dunno: ) about Stonehenge and it's sister- Woodhenge. There were other Druidic monuments that were all in arrangement around these two massive congregational sites. I can't remember it all (maybe someone else saw it and can clear it up??), but the anthropologists had a theory that they were used for signaling of ceremonies at certain times of the year, since all of the smaller sites had a clear line-of-site to the larger ones.
     
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  10. femalefinfan

    femalefinfan Phillies fan Luxury Box

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    I always think of Spinal Tap when I hear Stonehenge. I've seen specials that have talked about how the triptics are lined up with the stars and something about lining up with the solstaces. Can't remember the details. Anyone else here this stuff?
     
  11. inFINSible

    inFINSible Bad ministrator

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    What mystery? It's a landing platform for the mother ship.
     
  12. cnc66

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    I spent the night there drinking and being a Sub Sailor back in '74
     
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  13. late again

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  14. inFINSible

    inFINSible Bad ministrator

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    :lol:

    They brought us The Bomb.
     
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  15. late again

    late again Senior Member

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    http://youtube.com/watch?v=jmbmPalsRi4

    !!!!!....I can't help myself. It's like a sick obsession.

    ?? ...are you doing this on purpose ??...
    (paranoia is one of the symptoms)
     
  16. inFINSible

    inFINSible Bad ministrator

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    I wouldn't do you like that.:angel:
     
  17. BuckeyeKing

    BuckeyeKing Wolves DYNASTY!!!!

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    They are now just getting around to doing this?

    Well should be interesting when they were built.
     
  18. late again

    late again Senior Member

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    It is amazing that this guy could figure out something that has confounded scholars for centuries.

    And not only figure it out, but demonstrate it!

    This guy could build a replica of Stonehenge single-handedly, while a committee of 20 or 30 Civil Engineering professors from leading universities would be debating how it could be done.


    http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/moving_big_rocks
     
  20. inFINSible

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  21. Celtkin

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    Stonehenge was a place of burial, researchers say

    England's enigmatic Stonehenge served as a burial ground from its earliest beginnings and for several hundred years thereafter, new research indicates.

    Dating of cremated remains shows burials took place as early as 3000 B.C., when the first ditches around the monument were being built, researchers said Thursday.

    And those burials continued for at least 500 years, when the giant stones that mark the mysterious circle were being erected, they said.

    "It's now clear that burials were a major component of Stonehenge in all its main stages," said Mike Parker Pearson, archaeology professor at the University of Sheffield in England and head of the Stonehenge Riverside Archaeological Project.

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/05/29/stonehenge.ap/index.html
     
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  22. Themole

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    I have my Comcast reminder and DVR set for this Sunday night. Can't wait!
     
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  23. Desides

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    Bodies at the site doesn't necessarily mean it was a burial ground. They could have been sacrifices. Wonder how the show will present the evidence that it was a burial ground.
     
  24. CrunchTime

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    Some of the world biggest mysteries always seem to be resolved by simple answers .

    For a long time it was thought that there were mystical powers or advanced technology involved in the building of the pyramids.

    Now they know it was relatively easy to canter the rocks from the ancient limestone which was deposited from an ancient seabed in the pyramid area and that the transport only required rollers ,pulleys and a lot of man power to move .

    I think if they ever resolve the mystery of Atlantis it will mostly likely have a simple explanation.
     
  25. alen1

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    Good reads, thanks. That is interesting. I was discussing this with my history teacher the other day after I told her it was vandalized and she believed it was burial grounds. I guess she was correct.
     
  26. cnc66

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    I'm kinna liking the Santorini hypothesis
     
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  27. CrunchTime

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    That seems like the simplest answer to me Marty.It was close to Greece,there was an advanced Minoan society in the area.At least compared to the Greeks it was advanced .

    All gone from a massive volcanic eruption .It seems logical to me .
     
  28. pocoloco

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    Parker Pearson is easily one of the top archaeologists that's ever lived when it concerns interpreting burials. I'm inclined to believe him
     
  29. cnc66

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    30 cubic kilometers into the atmoshere, that's pretty darned big. A LOT could be lost, especially if the culture was centered ground zero.
     
  30. Darkoak

    Darkoak Gone for good.

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  31. Frumundah Finnatic

    Frumundah Finnatic U Mad Miami?

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    Not if the smoke monster gets to them first.......
     

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