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cwemory
Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Location: Gunpo, Korea
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 Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:06 pm Post subject: Stonehenge builders' houses found |
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Stonehenge builders' houses found
BBC News
A huge ancient settlement used by the people who built Stonehenge has been found, archaeologists have said.
Excavations at Durrington Walls, near the legendary Salisbury Plain monument, uncovered remains of ancient houses.
People seem to have occupied the sites seasonally, using them for ritual feasting and funeral ceremonies.
In ancient times, this settlement would have housed hundreds of people, making it the largest Neolithic village ever found in Britain.
The dwellings date back to 2,600-2,500 BC - according to the researchers, the same period that Stonehenge was built.
But some archaeologists point out that there are problems dating Stonehenge itself because the stone circle has been rebuilt many times.
Consequently, archaeological material has been dug up and reburied on numerous occasions, making it difficult to assign a date to the original construction.
But Mike Parker Pearson and his colleagues are confident of a link.
"In what were houses, we have excavated the outlines on the floors of box beds and wooden dressers or cupboards," he explained.
The Sheffield University researcher said this was based on the fact that these abodes had exactly the same layout as Neolithic houses at Skara Brae, Orkney, which have survived intact because - unlike these dwellings - they were made of stone.
The researchers have excavated eight houses in total at Durrington. But they have identified many other probable dwellings using geophysical surveying equipment.
In fact, they think there could have been at least one hundred houses.
Each one measured about 5m (16ft) square, was made of timber, with a clay floor and central hearth. The archaeologists found 4,600-year-old rubbish covering the floors of the houses.
"It is the richest - by that I mean the filthiest - site of this period known in Britain," Professor Parker Pearson told BBC News.
"We've never seen such quantities of pottery and animal bone and flint."
The Sheffield University researcher thinks the settlement was probably not lived in all year round. Instead, he believes, Stonehenge and Durrington formed a religious complex used for funerary rituals. |
rest here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6311939.stm |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Stonehenge has to be the most overrated ancient structure in the world. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Stonehenge has to be the most overrated ancient structure in the world. |
It is rather pathetic next to the pyramids, which were built about the same time.
And what was that from 'Spinal Tap'? "The hugeness of the object was somewhat underwhelming seeing how it was in danger of being trampled by a dwarf!!!"
Something like that.  |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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| caniff wrote: |
| jinju wrote: |
| Stonehenge has to be the most overrated ancient structure in the world. |
It is rather pathetic next to the pyramids, which were built about the same time.
And what was that from 'Spinal Tap'? "The hugeness of the object was somewhat underwhelming seeing how it was in danger of being trampled by a dwarf!!!"
Something like that. |
Stonehenge has what, 20 stones maybe? Or 30? And the pyramids have thousands of stones all bigger than the ones at stonehenge. Seriously, if stonehenge was built anywhere but England it would be ignored or laughed at. But the poms really did a good job of p.r. there. Same with that pathetic pip squeek tribal "king" called Arthur. Really, who cares? Arthurian legend? The guy ruled a couple of towns. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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| They don't know if it was to house the builders of Stonehenge, local farmers, or pilgrims. All they know is that people lived there. |
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Grimalkin
Joined: 22 May 2005
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| Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:49 am Post subject: |
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caniff
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| It is rather pathetic next to the pyramids, which were built about the same time |
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Stonehenge has what, 20 stones maybe? Or 30? And the pyramids have thousands of stones all bigger than the ones at stonehenge. Seriously, if stonehenge was built anywhere but England it would be ignored or laughed at. But the poms really did a good job of p.r. there. . |
These are even funnier than the Korea Herald article that said that the Irish famine was due to a failure of the potato crop because of a lack of rain!
Next they'll be comparing it to the Palace of Versailles. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 3:08 am Post subject: |
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| Grimalkin wrote: |
caniff
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| It is rather pathetic next to the pyramids, which were built about the same time |
| jinju wrote: |
Stonehenge has what, 20 stones maybe? Or 30? And the pyramids have thousands of stones all bigger than the ones at stonehenge. Seriously, if stonehenge was built anywhere but England it would be ignored or laughed at. But the poms really did a good job of p.r. there. . |
These are even funnier than the Korea Herald article that said that the Irish famine was due to a failure of the potato crop because of a lack of rain!
Next they'll be comparing it to the Palace of Versailles. |
Gotta get VANI right on it (the Irish VANK). It doesn't send spam mail when it deals with Korea, it just cuts them off whiskey. |
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