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Sushi
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 Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 8:30 pm Post subject: Stonehendge |
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Apparently stonehendge are burial places. No remains of humans were found, but there was enough to show that that's what the site was for. The belief is that the remains were cremated, and stuff from a person's private life was left on the site.
Korea has a number of stonehendge structures situated all over the country. North korea has some that are bigger sitting out in the middle of fields somewhere.
In the bible references to the rock like structure are as accomodations for big people. |
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aboxofchocolates
Joined: 21 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 9:17 pm Post subject: Re: Stonehendge |
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| Sushi wrote: |
| No remains of humans were found, but there was enough to show that that's what the site was for. |
Enough what? Please go on. |
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BS.Dos.
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| Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Nah, it's the worlds first drive thru. |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 3:40 am Post subject: Re: Stonehendge |
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| Sushi wrote: |
remains were cremated, and stuff from a person's private life was left on the site.
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Did you just read a book about it, see a video, read a recent report? |
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SeoulShakin
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 4:01 am Post subject: |
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I saw the article as well, on either cnn.com or msn.ca (those are two sites I look at quite often).
It said something to the effect that if you dig through the layers around the site, you can see that it was used for ceremonial burial ceremonies for centuries. They didn't offer too much proof in the article, so I imagine it is either being looked at more closely now, or people are still looking for more concrete proof.
And is it spelled stonehendge? I always thought it was Stonehenge. |
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mindmetoo
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 5:06 am Post subject: |
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| SeoulShakin wrote: |
I saw the article as well, on either cnn.com or msn.ca (those are two sites I look at quite often).
It said something to the effect that if you dig through the layers around the site, you can see that it was used for ceremonial burial ceremonies for centuries. They didn't offer too much proof in the article, so I imagine it is either being looked at more closely now, or people are still looking for more concrete proof.
And is it spelled stonehendge? I always thought it was Stonehenge. |
If you dig anywhere in Europe I'm sure you'll find a body. I always thought Stonehenge was a way for ancient britons to figure out the solar cycles so they knew when to plant. |
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tzechuk
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 6:19 am Post subject: |
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It's Stonehenge.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- England's enigmatic Stonehenge served as a burial ground from its earliest beginnings and for several hundred years thereafter, new research indicates.
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Druids perfom a blessing ceremony at Stonehenge in southern England.
Dating of cremated remains shows burials took place as early as 3000 B.C., when the first ditches around the monument were being built, researchers said Thursday.
And those burials continued for at least 500 years, when the giant stones that mark the mysterious circle were being erected, they said.
"It's now clear that burials were a major component of Stonehenge in all its main stages," said Mike Parker Pearson, archaeology professor at the University of Sheffield in England and head of the Stonehenge Riverside Archaeological Project.
In the past, many archaeologists had thought that burials at Stonehenge continued for only about a century, the researchers said.
"Stonehenge was a place of burial from its beginning to its zenith in the mid-third millennium B.C. The cremation burial dating to Stonehenge's sarsen stones phase is likely just one of many from this later period of the monument's use and demonstrates that it was still very much a domain of the dead," Parker Pearson said in a statement.
The researchers also excavated homes nearby at Durrington Walls, which they said appeared to be seasonal homes related to Stonehenge.
"It's a quite extraordinary settlement; we've never seen anything like it before," Parker Pearson said. The village appeared to be a land of the living and Stonehenge a land of the ancestors, he said.
There were at least 300 and perhaps as many as 1,000 homes in the village, he said. The small homes were occupied in midwinter and midsummer.
The village also included a circle of wooden pillars, which they have named the Southern Circle. It is oriented toward the midwinter sunrise, the opposite of Stonehenge, which is oriented to the midsummer sunrise.
The research was supported by the National Geographic Society, which discusses Stonehenge in its June magazine and will feature the new burial data on National Geographic Channel on Sunday.
The researchers said the earliest cremation burial was a small group of bones and teeth found in pits called the Aubrey Holes and dated to 3030-2880 B.C., about the time with the first ditch-and-bank monument was being built.
Remains from the surrounding ditch included an adult dated to 2930-2870 B.C., and the most recent cremation, Parker Pearson said, comes from the ditch's northern side and was of a 25-year-old woman. It dated to 2570-2340 B.C., around the time the first arrangements of large sarsen stones appeared at Stonehenge.
According to Parker Pearson's team, this is the first time any of the cremation burials from Stonehenge have been radiocarbon-dated. The burials dated by the group were excavated in the 1950s and have been kept at the nearby Salisbury Museum.
In the 1920s, an additional 49 cremation burials were dug up at Stonehenge, but all were reburied because they were thought to be of no scientific value, the researchers said.
They estimate that up to 240 people were buried within Stonehenge, all as cremation deposits.
Team member Andrew Chamberlain suggested that the cremation burials represent the natural deaths of a single elite family and its descendants, perhaps a ruling dynasty.
A clue to this, he said, is the small number of burials in Stonehenge's earliest phase, a number that grows larger in subsequent centuries, as offspring would have multiplied.
Parker Pearson added: "I don't think it was the common people getting buried at Stonehenge; it was clearly a special place at that time. One has to assume anyone buried there had some good credentials."
The actual building and purpose of Stonehenge remain a mystery that has long drawn speculation from many sources. |
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PeteJB
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 7:19 am Post subject: |
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| 3000 BC, Take that Prehistoric Korea! |
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Chris_Dixon
Joined: 09 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 9:32 am Post subject: |
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| its a protected site. those dudes are the first to dig there for ages/ I heard some of the stones are from Wales..abit of a hike!!! |
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PeteJB
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| SeoulShakin wrote: |
I saw the article as well, on either cnn.com or msn.ca (those are two sites I look at quite often).
It said something to the effect that if you dig through the layers around the site, you can see that it was used for ceremonial burial ceremonies for centuries. They didn't offer too much proof in the article, so I imagine it is either being looked at more closely now, or people are still looking for more concrete proof.
And is it spelled stonehendge? I always thought it was Stonehenge. |
If you dig anywhere in Europe I'm sure you'll find a body. I always thought Stonehenge was a way for ancient britons to figure out the solar cycles so they knew when to plant. |
oooooooh, who's your riding chumesse MMT? |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Wangja wrote: |
| oooooooh, who's your riding chumesse MMT? |
Long story  |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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I have the time ....
(Well, till I amble off to church for lunch) |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Wangja wrote: |
I have the time ....
(Well, till I amble off to church for lunch) |
Something best told over drinks |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Good plan ..... |
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