Houses Found Buried Beneath Stonehenge Site

The Washington Post ^ | January 30, 2007 | Marc Kaufman

[Tijeras_Slim]

Druid Eminent Domain

[beyond the sea]

at roughly the same time 4,600 years ago that the giant stone slabs were being erected.

Did they happen to find Janet Reno too?

[XR7]

[Cyclopean Squid]

Hmmm, maybe that's where Spinal Tap lived after their Smell the Glove tour ended.

[massgopguy]

I saw one one the Triptyics in Spinal Tap. It was in danger of being crushed by a Dwarf.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

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This is just so much wallowing in historical content, with modern personalities in ancient dress cast up in the foreground.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."

[Khepera]

they needed something to stand behind when they went pee and so erected Stonehenge in the center of town, accessible by everyone.

[Robert A Cook PE]

they needed something to stand behind when they went pee and so erected Stonehenge in the center of town, accessible by everyone.

This, off course, is jest one of the reasons for the site's unusual appeerance.

[Dave Elias]

Pre-dates the druids by nearly three millenia.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Pre-dates the druids by nearly three millenia.

When Helen Thomas was a girl.

[chadwimc]

They found no dental records, 'tho...

[Puppage]

Yet another "New Zealander Builds Hobbit Hole", thread?

[BallyBill]

Stonehenge: The worlds oldest known outhouse!

[VRWCmember]

The original eminent domain case. I wonder if Arlen Specter would want the courts to consider this case in reviewing future ED decisions.

[CertainInalienableRights]

I wonder if Arlen Specter would want the courts to consider this case in reviewing future ED decisions

I guess it would be "established international law", thus trumping all those "long dead white christian slaveholding guy" words in the Constitution.

[Boiler Plate]

Did they happen to find Janet Reno too?


No, just her birth certificate.

[dblshot]

"All of the houses were scattered with human debris of all kinds."

World's first trailer park!

[Boiler Plate]

If you have never been to see Stonehenge, please don't bother. It is a huge disappointment and looks much better in photos.