How two little ducks could transform our understanding of Stonehenge

Daily Mail ^ | Wednesday, October 5th, 2011 | Gavin Allen

[SunkenCiv]

Evidence human gathered at the monument for up to 3,000 years before it was built

[SunkenCiv]

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[Sacajaweau]

Hope the carver didn’t give up his day job.

[doc1019]

Doesn’t sound like a religious place to me, just a place to party ... drink, eat and practice debauchery. Kegger anyone?

[freedomfiter2]

Just what I suspected all along, Stonehenge was a duck blind.

[Ramius]

Nope. It was a tavern. I’m sure of it.

[bigheadfred]

Yeah. No. Huh. Ducks. I think they’re penguins. Probably French, too. They would have the Gaul.

[Ramius]

mmmm... Debauchery. :-)

[the invisib1e hand]

[Verginius Rufus]

They were illiterate, so they used little figurines of ducks to show that they were covered by AFLAQ.

[Beckett08]

Book Mark for morning

[Bernard Marx]

M R ducks

M R not

O S A R

C M wangs?

L I B! M R ducks

[RitchieAprile]

not bad for an apemon..

[Meet the New Boss]

“animal figurines which were then thrown into water as offerings”

Or maybe they were just toys for the kids?

Wouldn’t it be ironic if the real people living back then were not as obsessed with supposed ritual as their latter-day New Age imitators?

[Persevero]

“Wouldn’t it be ironic if the real people living back then “

Exactly, they were people like the rest of us, and probably did not spend all day long in ritual observances.

[WKUHilltopper]

LOL!

[Lancey Howard]

The ducks were likely, say the team, to be a result of the Bronze Age tradition of carving animal figurines which were then thrown into water as offerings.

Where do they come up with these theories?

[Einherjar]

M R N ducks

O S A R

C M E D B D eyes

[null and void]

I'd go with rabbit. Better fertility offering...

[Beowulf9]

Sunken Civ, thanks for posting this about Stonehenge. I love these articles.

Remember when they found the stone carving of a hedgehog at Stonehenge? Buried with the child? I think this is a fascinating discovery, because it shows these ancient people obviously had a spiritual belief of sorts.

Wonder what their beliefs were?