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Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury. It consists of a ring of standing stones, with each standing stone around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide and weighing around 25 tons. The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Agemonuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds,More info:wiki
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#10 Stonehenge stones moved by land not sea, new study suggests,More info:news.sky
The smaller stones at Stonehenge, known as bluestones, were brought 180 miles over land to the Wiltshire site rather than the popular theory they were transported by water, new research suggests.
It had previously been known that 42 of these stones came from the Preseli hills in Pembrokeshire, west Wales.
#9 Britons who built Stonehenge were product of ancient wave of migrant farmers, DNA reveals,More info:independent
#8 Stonehenge,More info:nationalgeographic
#7 Robin Heath: Stonehenge – The Marriage of the Sun and Moon,More info:tallbloke.wordpress
Reblogged from Ishtar’s Gate, a blog covering diverse subjects relating to antiquity, myth, culture, legend and ancient arts. Although the idea that the Aubrey holes around the outside of the stone complex have an astronomical observation and eclipse prediction purpose has been dismissed because later cremations were found in them, their number, spacing and mathematical relationship to the station stones indicates otherwise. Ishtar’s introduction follows:
This is from the book of the same title by the highly regarded Robin Heath, and it is a deeply researched and expert interpretation of the sacred geometrical azimuths and alignments of Stonehenge.
It is well established that the axis of Stonehenge aligns approximately to the midsummer rising sun azimuth. In addition, the station stone rectangle is constructed perpendicular to the axis and has a ratio of 5:12. In Megalithic yards, this is 40:96, i.e. the units of the rectangle’s ratio are expressed in 8 MY ‘quanta’.
#6 Stonehenge,More info:history
For centuries, historians and archaeologists have puzzled over the many mysteries of Stonehenge, the prehistoric monument that took Neolithic builders an estimated 1,500 years to erect. Located in southern England, it is comprised of roughly 100 massive upright stones placed in a circular layout.
While many modern scholars now agree that Stonehenge was once a burial ground, they have yet to determine what other purposes it served and how a civilization without modern technology—or even the wheel—produced the mighty monument. Its construction is all the more baffling because, while the sandstone slabs of its outer ring hail from local quarries, scientists have traced the bluestones that make up its inner ring all the way to the Preseli Hills in Wales, some 200 miles from where Stonehenge sits on Salisbury Plain.
Today, nearly 1 million people visit Stonehenge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1986, every year.
#5 Ancient Stonehenge Pigs Had Long Journey Before Their Slaughter,More info:livescience
Countless piggies likely trotted hundreds of miles to Stonehenge and other ancient monuments during the Neolithic, where they were promptly devoured during giant feasts, a new study finds.
After guzzling down the succulent pork, ancient people threw the porcine remains aside, littering the landscape with pig skulls and bones. Now, 2,800 years later, researchers have collected jaw and tooth samples from the remains of 131 of these Neolithic pigs; from the samples, they analyzed the isotopes (an element that has a different number of neutrons than usual in its nucleus) that hint at the animals’ origins.
#4 New evidence on the origins of people buried at Stonehenge,More info:ucl.ac
People buried at Stonehenge 5,000 years ago likely lived in west Wales where Stonehenge’s smaller standing stones – bluestones – originated from, according to a new study involving UCL, University of Oxford, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris, France.
#3 Stonehenge was built by descendants of Neolithic migrants, DNA study shows,More info:nbcnews
We may not know exactly how or why Stonehenge was built, but new research affords a glimpse of the people who erected England’s iconic stone monument some 5,000 years ago.
The study, which examined the origins of farming in Britain, shows that the people living in the region at the time Stonehenge was built were descended from people who had migrated to the area about 6,000 years ago from present-day Turkey.
#2 Day Trip to Stonehenge, Windsor & Bath,More info:grayline
#1 5 Reasons to Visit Stonehenge,More info:citywonders
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