Time Team Special 41 (2009) - The Secrets of Stonehenge (Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire)

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[webzpace]

Good documentary that presents more theories, but they really didn't prove anything definitively. First of all, you can't carbon date stone, so anything found there such as tools that were used to date it could have been before or after it was built. Also, saying the wooden and stone versions were built at the same time is just a guess. The wood one could have been a prototype to make sure alignments were correct. Or they realized a stone one made more sense after in regard to permanency.

[Fillask]

Isn't it true, though, that you can carbon date that which has grown on the stone, e.g. moss?

[jaduvalify]

Darington looks like a cranog construction. Was this area ever under water? After Noah's flood, people would have used very primitive means for daily survival. These structures may contain primitive axe heads, arrow heads, etc., but the people might not have been as ancient as modern people hypothesize.

[jaduvalify]

There are individuals who believe that people - particularly kings and queens - originate from Sirius and other star constellations. They also believe that when the stones are aligned with these stars, at certain times of year, a person can be transported back to their origins using light, magnetics, and sound. It works like a magnetic generator, and digital signals - the signal being dna.

[Aramintava]

Poor piggy. He got shot in de butt:(

[Lemma01]

The river is key to this selection of theories.

Why is there no discussion about where the river was 3000-2500BCE?

Are we really supposed to accept that the Avon has not meandered through the chalk in all that time?

[Oskarious2]

To be fair, it is completely natural now as well, the main difference is that we become more and more secular. Back in the days death, and foremost the afterlife, was comforting, you knew you would be with the gods. People today become nothing, and that would be scary to me as well.

[chironsgirl]

Amazing! That far back we understood the cycle of life and death. It's only within the last few hundred years that we have been taught to fear death. Back then it was completely natural. A solemn and holy aspect of life, not something to be afraid of. Rejoice at the renewal of life at Durrington, and look back with love and respect to your departed family and freinds along the Avon and at Stonehenge. Works for me.

[N3cken]

Yeah. I think it was Noha when he came from Egypt with his boat, building it to. Thats why so many animal bones XD

[tuberobotto]

The host asks Mike "which people built them?". I'm guessing they have to be the Japhetites who came straight out of the Levant/Ararat region after the flood bringing with them Noah's building knowledge. Noticeable is that special relationship between man and stone present all throughout mankind's history and his penchant for building with stones and rocks for permanency as a way of proclaiming his dominion over his land and surroundings. The ritualistic purposes of the stones are not surprising.

[MissCattitude63]

Which one?