Posted on 01/13/2007 3:00:37 PM PST by blam
Descendent Of Stone Age Skeleton Found (Cheddar Man - 9,000 Years Old)
"British scientists Saturday celebrated their feat of tracing a living descendant of a 9,000-year-old skeleton and establishing the world's oldest known family tree. "
Then I shall hopefully go but via Scotland.
Nice response.
My visit left an entirely different impression than that experienced by U.P. There is something mystical about the place, I agree. But for me it was more a "connectedness" with a very long stream of human experience. I loved it and would go back at any opportunity, just to experience that feeling again.
My visit included other nearby mystical places: Avebury, very much the equal of Stonehenge in its own way; Woodhenge, Silbury Hill, etc. Those places are all within direct line-of-sight with each other, and at the time I visited I realized this part of the Salisbury Plain must have had particular significance to the builders of all those monuments and others nearby.
I heard it was the first futures exchange.
Au Contraire! It has long been the central sacrament of the religious left, including the "Born Again Pagans" of America's unconstitutional state religion... GovernMental EnvironMentalism!!!
There is an obelisk monument smack dab in the center of Placerville, CA, the county seat of El Dorado County that was erected by the CA Druids in the early 1950's. What do you make of that? Now Placerville is aka "Old Hang Town" from the gold rush days. What do you make of that?
I went there about 10 years ago. As you come over the hill...you realize that the exit is approaching and suddenly you are there at the parking lot. The entire surroundings...360 degrees...looks like a cow field. There are no other structures other than the kiosk for tourists...perhaps planned that way.
I felt the unsettling effect as well. Our group was there for 90 minutes. I felt prepared to leave after 15 minutes. I will only say this in passing...I went to Dachau back in the mid 1980s...and felt the same way there. I will not make a comparison between the two...but it was the same precise feeling...needing to leave shortly after arrival. I've been to WW II cemetaries, Normandy, various castles throughout Europe, the Tower of London, and even the Shiloh battleground...none gave me that immedate feeling of needing to leave except those two locations.
My suspicion is that something else went on there besides the measurement of the year. Perhaps the early Celtics weren't the easy-going types that we often dream of.
amazing! and we were impressed when grandad
was able to go back 30 some generations...
it's interesting that so many have had varied reactions
from visiting stonehenge and these other nearby places.
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I visited Stonehenge this past May. The sky was gray and it was drizzling. Unfortunately I was on a bus tour and because it was a Saturday, there were many other people there as well, so I really wasn't able to pick up any feelings about the place. But I do know what you mean about a "foreboding experience" and feeling of "dread" about a place. My first visit to Andersonville Prison (Civil War POW) in Georgia made me feel that way. I was practically alone walking around the grounds. I couldn't shake the feeling of sadness that had come over me. It wasn't until I had left the place and was on the road that I started feeling better.
Scotland is amazing. I'd love to go back there someday.
Maybe it's where the Dems held their first convention.
New glacier theory on Stonehenge
The debate over how the stones arrived at Stonehenge continues
A geology team has contradicted claims that bluestones were dug by Bronze Age man from a west Wales quarry and carried 240 miles to build Stonehenge.
In a new twist, Open University geologists say the stones were in fact moved to Salisbury Plain by glaciers...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/5072664.stm
Believe it or not.
it's plausible.
New glacier theory on Stonehenge
BBC News | June 13, 2006
Posted on 06/13/2006 10:27:54 AM EDT by billorites
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1648503/posts
Wish I could go back in time...
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