Posted on 05/29/2008 5:46:06 PM PDT by SouthDixie
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/stonehenge-was-domain-of-the-dead/20080529115809990001?icid=1615988631x1203354246x1200308308
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Sorry, i’m new at this and learning...thanks for your help.
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Welcome aboard SouthDixie.
You have nothing to apologize for. :-) A great article. Thanks for posting.
All they had to do was ask Helen Thomas. She was there doing a story for the AP when Stonehenge went up.
WASHINGTON (May 29) - “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.
In the past many archaeologists had thought that burials at Stonehenge continued for only about a century, the researchers said.”
I wonder what archaeologists thousands of years from now will think of the many graves surrounding one of our local Episcopal churches. They will conclude that “burials were a major component.”
I think they were trying to figure out pi. :)
They got it right.
Pie are round. ;^)
I wonder what archaeologists thousands of years from now will think of the many graves surrounding one of our local Episcopal churches
Exactly, that people are buried there is not an adequate indication that the only or even the major use of Stonehenge was as a cemetery. Think how many major Cathedrals (St. Peters for one) have burials in and below them, the same is true of Buddhist Wats where monks and important personages are cremated and buried.
> They got it right. Pie are round. ;^)
(I guess somebody has to do it...)
No, no... πr2
Oh, they figured it out...
Also see comment#16 above...
Personally, I hope that thousands of years from now there will still be Christians, so there will be no mystery.
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But that means that Stonehenge was Bush’s fault?
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