Stonehenge Builders' Houses Found

BBC ^ | 1-30-2007

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[basil]

I have always been intriqued by the Stonehenge. I have been there--and the experience was almost eerie. The tourists walking around (and there were not that many) were all very subdued and if they were talking at all, it was very softly.

The whole atmosphere of the place is different---almost like visiting a church or holy site, although no one has ever thought the Stonehenge was a religious site.

[Red Badger]

People seem to have occupied the sites seasonally, using them for ritual feasting and funeral ceremonies.

World's first SNOWBIRDS?..........

[texas_mrs]

Cool. My paternal family traces back to this area, so Stonehenge stories always intrigue me.

[Red Badger]

"The animal bones are being thrown away half-eaten. It's what we call a feasting assemblage. This is where they went to party - you could say it was the first free festival."

Tailgaters! STONEHENGE was their SUPERBOWL!..........

[Andyman]

If you haven't already, read "Sarum" by Edward Rutherford. I think you would find it interesting.

[VanDeKoik]

Silly, Their houses are in the Zeta Reticulum system.

Art Bell said so.

[dfwgator]

[blam]

Click here to see a National Geographic video on this subject. It's pretty good.

[Buck W.]

Stonehenge is one of the best henges in the world (to borrow from Eddie Izzard).

[Lockbar]

Animal bones all over the place? BAD HOUSEKEEPING!

[texas_mrs]

After checking it out on Amazon, it does look like the kind of book I would enjoy. I never seem to have the time to read anymore, but am interested in this book. I will let you know if I read it. Thanks for the recommendation!

[Jagman]

"In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing..."

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[Physicist]

Watch a man start to build a Stonehenge all by himself.

[trisham]

In ancient times, hundreds of years before the
dawn of history.
There 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...

Stonehenge, where the demons dwell
Where the banshees live and they do live well
Stonehenge
Where a man is a man and the children dance to
the pipes of pan
Stonehenge
Tis a magic place where the moon doth rise
With a dragon's face
Stonehenge
Where the virgins lie
And the prayer of devils fill the midnight sky
And you my love, won't you take my hand
We'll go back in time to that mystic land
Where the dew drops cry and the cats meow
I will take you there
I will show you how

This is Spinal Tap

[Eaker]

The archaeologists found 4,600-year-old rubbish covering the floors of the houses.

We have this problem at my housse too.

[SunkenCiv]

I've got an idea for a Stonehenge replica built entirely out of old (some of them historic) pizza boxes...

[SunkenCiv]

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