Druid Eminent Domain
Did they happen to find Janet Reno too?
Harry Harrison "Stonehenge: Where Atlantis Died"
http://www.harryharrison.com/
INTRODUCTION
Stonehenge: Where Atlantis Died is an expanded version of Stonehenge. Or, to be more accurate, it is the original version of Stonehenge...
In an Authors' Note in the original edition of the novel, Stover and Harrison say:
"Above all we want to entertain with a rousing adventure story.
But entertaining is the means by which we aim to accomplish a serious pedagogical end:
to dramatise the case for a non-astronomical interpretation of Stonehenge;
Of course, its characters and events are imaginary - but the anthropological thinking behind the storyline is meant to be taken as a deliberate contribution to the continuing debate over Stonehenge.
They also point out the difference between their approach and that of other historical novelists:
"In most other historical novels the setting is nothing but a setting, a painted backdrop of exquisitely researched detail.
This is just so much wallowing in historical content, with modern personalities in ancient dress cast up in the foreground.
What we are after is pattern, the cultural pattern of a vanished society -
Britain in the middle of the second millennium BC:
The tribal politics of the Yerni and the technology of stone-working that Inteb brings to bear in their name have been used not as ornamentation but as key concepts in the reconstruction of a prehistoric culture."
In his own book Harry Harrison, Leon Stover says: "We determined that we were not writing a historical novel but a novel about history,
whose purpose was to authenticate the past.
Historical novelists do not as a rule aim at this."
they needed something to stand behind when they went pee and so erected Stonehenge in the center of town, accessible by everyone.
Yet another "New Zealander Builds Hobbit Hole", thread?
The original eminent domain case. I wonder if Arlen Specter would want the courts to consider this case in reviewing future ED decisions.
Heads up! GGG material?
"New excavations near the mysterious circle at Stonehenge in South England have uncovered dozens of homes where hundreds of people lived -- at roughly the same time 4,600 years ago that the giant stone slabs were being erected. The finding strongly suggests that the monument and the settlement nearby were a center for ceremonial activities..."
Maybe it was a prehistoric shopping mall...
When archeologists haven't a grain of historical evidence
regarding a site, they surrepticiously "decide" it is a
religious monument of some sort.
On "If Walls Could Talk", mysterious crosses were found
etched into the walls and over doorways of a home used in
the "Underground Railroad". Rather than acknowledging the
obvious Christian Cross and the historical connection Christians
had in helping slaves to escape, the brilliant researchers decided
these were African spirit signs used to ward off evil spirits.
Revisionist history succeeds.
alas...
Stonehenge Builders' Houses Found
BBC | 1-30-2007
Posted on 01/30/2007 11:13:43 AM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1776116/posts
related, also of interest:
Stonehenge Didn't Stand Alone, Excavations Show
National Geographic | 1-12-2007 | James Owen
Posted on 01/13/2007 6:00:37 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1767225/posts
