Posted on 12/20/2024 10:33:57 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Why the mighty Stonehenge was built around 5,000 years ago has long been one of the great mysteries.
But according to a new study, we may finally have an answer.
Scientists say Wiltshire's famous stone circle was built as a symbol of unification between three distinct corners of Britain.
We know that Stonehenge's rocky slabs were transported as far afield from southwest Wales and northeast Scotland.
So the scientists, from University College London and Aberystwyth University, theorise that Scottish and Welsh people brought their own local stones down to Wiltshire as a well-meaning contribution to assembling the structure.
In that sense, it represented a powerful – and very early – symbol of British unity.
Stonehenge's builders had attempted to establish 'political unification and shared identity across much or even all of Britain', the authors say in their paper, published in Archaeology International.
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Still doesn’t explain why they hauled stones from Scotland...
They could have just had a solstice dinner with haggis, fish ‘n’ tubers and maybe a nice yorkshire pudding.
Or this was just an attraction like Disneyland...
How many cups of tea to settle that one, eh?
Methinks they run dry of ideas, but had to show something, to keep the grant money coming.
Thought it was built so some local dwarf would have something to trod upon.
Or maybe that was a smaller version.
Spinal Tap
In ancient times,
Hundreds of years before the dawn of history
Lived a strange race of people, the Druids
No one knows who they were or what they were doing
But their legacy remains
Hewn into the living rock, of Stonehenge
Four Corners!
That’s probably the worst explanation ever.
…with Bigfoot in attendance.
So the "science is settled" ..... This time!
Unity! Peace, love, dope!
The Stonehenge builders were hippies!
Solved? Finally crack..the mystery? It's still dead, Jim.
I thought it was a calendar/clock?
I don’t think the pre-historic druids were all that concerned with virtue signaling. And to whom were they signaling?
I had the same impression in 1986. I was more impressed with the little town that had donkeys wandering around.
Sigh!
What a waste of ...money
So was Big Ben.
And Parliament!
Haven’t been there in years.
“they don’t know at all. It’s a theory, one of many”
Exactly.
They are time portals. Anyone that watches “Outlander” knows that. //Sarc//
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