Pre-Stonehenge Megaliths Linked to Death Rituals, Jennifer Viegas, Friday April 9, 2010
Posted on 10/10/2011 4:28:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Four to five thousand years ago, a wealthy teenage girl was laid to rest in a grave at what archaeologists believe is a newly found henge in Kent, England.
The discovery of the 17-year-old's grave -- along with a unique prehistoric pot inside of a ringed ditch near two other women -- strengthens the idea that important death-related rituals took place at many of these mysterious ancient monuments when they were first erected.
"What is becoming clear is that with a series of major excavations in Kent linked to road and rail works, and new aerial photography, there are many circular earthworks that look part barrow and part henge, and like the one fully excavated example at Ringlemere (Kent), some of these may be both," said archaeologist Mike Pitts, publisher of British Archaeology, where a summary of the recent finds appears.
"This comes after many years in which archaeologists believed there were no henges in south-east England at all," Pitts told Discovery News.
Staff from Oxford Wessex Archaeology, during recent extensive excavations, discovered the early teen's grave on the Isle of Thanet, Kent, near what is now Manston Airport. The girl was buried laying on her side with flexed limbs, with an unusual pot standing by her right elbow.
Pitts explained that the pot consists of three small bowls joined together. Separately made pots were joined with bridging clay before decorating and firing, he suspects. Neil Wilkin, a researcher at the University of Birmingham studying early vessels, said the features of the pot confirm its suspected age and attribution.
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Pre-Stonehenge Megaliths Linked to Death Rituals, Jennifer Viegas, Friday April 9, 2010
Poor Pebbles.
Her married name was Pebbles Rubble? Sucks.
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I wonder if she was pretty for her time?
Bam Bam would hit it.
It’s remarkable to me how ancient sorrows become artifacts.
I’m a guy, so my immediate concerns are more carnal than cultured. :)
But it is interesting how the ancients viewed their world.
I think they are called funerals and berrying peeple in churchyards izza still happening.
Pebbles Rubbles
Rocks
My SIL's nickname is "Pebbles". She SUCKS.
I wonder if she was pretty for her time.
Ah... WTF? Wade...is that you?
I wonder if they could tell it was a teen girl by the rock star posters in her room.
“I wonder if she was pretty for her time?”
No archaeologist could ever convince me any different. They did look like Rachel Welch in fur bikinis.
Indeed.
Except that they weren't wearing bikinis...
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQXJvXziC9A4K2qwOu0fdq8HJFQzlnTqf59SARVMSB3eKOPurU8
What an anachronistic title.
But I’ll overlook it since no archaeologists have yet found the gold I secretly hid inside each of the stones at Stonehenge.
No doubt she had healthy lungs.
She’s no Daryl Hannah.
;’)
Does berrying peeple involve smooshing them and eating them on toast?
My SIL's nickname is "Pebbles". She SUCKS.
In a good way or a bad way?
So kind of you to stirruptitiously acknowledge you own my book Bigheadfred's Incomprehensible And Incoherent Rantography even though I suspicion you bought it with the cover torn off. (The people over at Royal's send me a shirt every time I sell a copy, and I haven't gotten a T from Royal's lately)
In a good way or a bad way?
Or, what is the difference between $50 and $25?
Well...whatever killed her wasn’t autoimmune. It’s never autoimmune.
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