Prehistoric child is discovered buried with 'toy hedgehog' at Stonehenge

Mail Online ^ | October 10 2008 | Daily Mail Reporter

[Beowulf9]

I thought this story to be so poignant, I had to share it.

I also found it fitting that Stonehenge yields a stone hedgehog.

[Lazamataz]

For a moment, I shared in the pain of the father who buried this child.

Then I got back to my life of eating chicken wings, freeping, and playing Spore.

[apocalypto]

Nice story.

[bamahead]

ping

[Lazamataz]

"..... It shows humans have taken hedgehogs to their hearts for a very long time."

I took a hedgehog to the groin, once.

Took a week to get the spines out.

[bellas_sister]

hahahahha.... must be a distant relative.

[Mercat]

I have some pottery toys from pre columbian Peru - a rattle and a whistle. I value them much more than the pot we have which probably has more value or the copper surgical tools. The toys make noise. They made a child smile over 500 years ago. They’re sacred.

[GoLightly]

Ping

[Cvengr]

So prehistoric dad buried the boy with a box of rocks. Hey, Laz, pass the tobasco.

[Lazamataz]

Hey, Laz, pass the tobasco.

Sure. Hey, is your Spore creature gonna be a carnivore, herbivore, or omnivore?

[scratcher]

Thank you, very nice story.

[patton]

Thus proving that kids have been saying, “Daddy, I’m booooored...” since the dawn of time.

[colinhester]

Thanks for sharing. Passing it on to my wife; she loves hedgehogs....C

[Cooper42]

I didn’t think Ron Jeremy was THAT old!!!

[Goonch]

"I took a hedgehog to the groin, once."

Almost laughed but there's nothing funny 'bout a hedgehog to the groin

[Cvengr]

Ever notice cultural anthropologists are so incredibly daft? (not to make any allusions to the womenfolk and mothers of some political figures,...but if so, what the whoo..) Obviously for such rocks to have been placed in the grave with a child they weren't merely play toys, but highly prized and valued architectural models of Stonehenge, probably used in prehistoric wind tunnels powered by tethered pterodactyls to test the ageless design of the behemoth structure prior to mammoth mastodons leveraged the lintels into place. Then again, in the Islamic State of Mogadishu, Somalia it is illegal to impersonate Elvis without a beard, so who knows what these folks were thinking.

[count-your-change]

A bit of over reaching by archaeologists. How do they know it was a toy and not some totem-like article? Who placed it there? And why? is really unknown.

[Goonch]

"in the Islamic State of Mogadishu, Somalia it is illegal to impersonate Elvis without a beard"

That's why Elvis stayed out of Mogadishu

[TASMANIANRED]

Looked like a rock to me.

Scientists can be such morons sometimes.. The presumption that play is a modern trait in humans is nuts.

The young of every mammalian species plays...Sometimes it is play that leads to hunting behavior but sometimes it is just the joy of life.

[TASMANIANRED]

“Are we there yet” must have been profoundly annoying when you walked.