Maiden Castle in Dorset:
Posted on 06/07/2011 8:31:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A new scientific dating technique has revealed there was a building spree more than 5,500 years ago, when many of the most spectacular monuments in the English landscape, such as Maiden Castle in Dorset and Windmill Hill in Wiltshire, were built, used and abandoned in a single lifetime.
The fashion for the monuments, hilltops enclosed by rings of ditches, known to archaeologists as causewayed enclosures, instead of being the ritual work of generations as had been believed, began on the continent centuries earlier but spread from Kent to Cornwall within 50 years in about 3700 BC.
Alex Bayliss, an archaeologist and dating expert at English Heritage, said: "The dates were not what we expected when we began this project but prehistorians are just going to have to get their heads around it, a lot of what we have been taught in the past is complete bollocks."
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
“complete bollocks”.
If only more scientists could talk like that.......
“built, used and abandoned in a single lifetime. “
Analogous to certain neighborhoods in Detroit.
Wait a second, there’s a huge difference — with these 3700BC earthworks, you’d have to live in lousy climate, with heavily armed neighbors always threatening to kill you, no protection against your house burning down, and... uh, oh, never mind...
I wholeheartedly agree. :’)
Nice buttes? Is that part of the (gasp!) *homosexual agenda*?!?
Why no, ‘Civ, why did your mind immmediately go there?
Shut up, voice in my head!
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Maiden Castle in Dorset:
Around 4,000 BC the nomadic and warlike Kurgan people invaded central Europe over a period of several centuries. Perhaps the people displaced moved to England, where they either brought new innovations, or warfare and unrest. After this period of Kurgan invasion, there was almost a thousand years until another Kurgan incursion around 3,000 BC. So if there was no longer a bunch of new people coming in after 3700, then they might have stopped building these centers/fortifications?.
Thanks gleeaikin.
If only more scientists were open to that possibility.
Ancient bureaucracies Freddie Flint and Wilma Fae caused a bubble, destroyed the early civilizations and allowed the Romans to take over...
LOL!
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