Unearthed, The Prince Of Stonehenge

A prehistoric prince with gold ear-rings has been found near Stonehenge a few yards away from the richest early Bronze Age burial in Britain.

Earlier this year, archaeologists found an aristocratic warrior, also with gold ear-rings, on Salisbury Plain and speculated that he may have been an ancient king of Stonehenge.

The body was laid to rest 4,300 years ago during the construction of the monument, along with stone arrow heads and slate wristguards that protected the arm from the recoil of the bow. Archaeologists named him the Amesbury Archer.

Now they have found another skeleton from the same period five yards away. The remains are those of a man, aged 25 to 30, buried in the same posture, on his left side with his face to the north, and legs bent.

His grave was bare, containing only the sharpened tusk of a boar, but contained the basket shaped ear-rings. The man may have been the archer's son, the prince of Stonehenge, said Dr Andrew Fitzpatrick, who led the dig by Wessex Archaeology.

DNA testing on their teeth will be carried out to find out if the two bodies are part of the same royal family.

Around 100 artefacts were found in the archer's grave -10 times as many as at graves from a similar period elsewhere in Britain.

The grave is dated to about 2300BC - around the time at which Stonehenge's inner circle of bluestones was being hauled from the Preseli mountains in South Wales.

The king, who was 5ft 9ins tall, lacked a left kneecap, suggesting he had suffered a serious injury. He was aged 35 to 50 when he died, when he was placed in a timber chamber about three miles from Stonehenge.

A valuation committee must now put a figure on the finds after David Masters, the Wiltshire coroner, declared the discoveries treasure.

The British Museum and the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum have both expressed an interest in providing the archer's final resting place.

John and Sylvia Savidge, who own Red House Farm where the burial chambers were unearthed, may receive a cash reward once the treasure has been valued.

What's even more amazing is that many living Britons are descended from these fellows and other prehistoric guests of honor in the burial mounds that dot Britain.

I think I read a year or two ago that some man up in the Yorkshire Dales is the most direct living descendant of the former tenant of a Stone Age skull unearthed not far from where he lives. It's hard for Americans to understand how much archaeological evidence 4 or 5 thousand years of relative dense settlement can leave. You probably can stick a shovel (or a Bobcat) into the soil just about anywhere in England and come up with something of interest. The Barbican area of London, where the old Roman and pre-Roman structures were exposed by the Blitz, is fascinating.

>>The Amesbury Archer --- Looks Hebrew to the artist"

>What makes him look Hebrew?

Process of elimination. Does he look Oriental? No.

Does he look Negroid? No.

Does he look (North or South) American Indian? No.

Does he look European Celtic? Yes, even though there were no people designated as Celts at this time.

Who were the Celts? They were Hebrews/Semites/Israelites. (See the 3-MINUTE HISTORY at my FR Profile below for the details.)

Abraham (2,000 BC) was a Hebrew. (The word "Hebrew" simply means "stranger" or "wanderer"). Abraham came from a family of "Hebrews" in Ur, in what today is southern Iraq. There were lots of Hebrews wandering around loose, at least that part of the world at that time.

So what did Abraham, a Hebrew, look like? No one really knows, but you can work backwards to arrive at a reasoned estimate by looking at Abrahams offspring. This is far from perfect, but is better than nothing:

To begin, Abrahams offspring are white, or "Causasian". A quick look at some of Abrahams offspring gives the idea. These offspring are all contemporary Jews:

Joseph Lieberman, Paul Newman, Ted Koppel, Harrison Ford, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Kirk Douglas, Kevin Costner, Stephen Breyer, Yitzhak Rabin, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Mike Wallace, Benjamin Netanyahu, William Shatner, Douglas Fairbanks, Cary Grant, Leonard Bernstein, Paul Simon, Ariel Sharon, David Frost, Morley Safer, Ari Fleischer,

Jack Benny, Alan King, Casper Weinberger, Carl Reiner, George Burns, Red Buttons, Sam Levinson, Bernard Goldberg, Robert Downey Jr., Dustin Hoffman, Michael Douglas, Peter Sellers, Tony Curtis, Edward G. Robinson, Wolf Blitzer, Mel Torme, Paul Wellstone, Peter Falk, Leonard Nimoy, Jerry Springer, Arlen Spector, William Cohen,

Barry Goldwater, Robert Rubin, William Roth, Howard Metzenbaum, Hyman Rickover, Robert Reich, Russ Feinberg, Stanley Mosk, Arthur Burns, Milton Friedman, Bill Kristol, Victor Borge, William Kristol, Warren Rudman, etc., etc, etc.

These Jews, which everyone agrees are Hebrews/Semites/Israelites just happen to look like and could easily be confused with their Israelite cousins, European and American whites who are of Celtic origin. The Celts and the Jews are genetic cousins via Jacob/Israel. All are offspring from Abraham/Isaac/Jacob/Israel, and all are Hebrews, Semites, and Israelites.

This artist has drawn The Amesbury Archer to look like a modern white Celtic man, much like any other white European/American man today, so the artist apparently views the Amesbury Archer as a Hebrew.

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