Posted on 06/07/2011 8:31:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A new scientific dating technique has revealed there was a building spree more than 5,500 years ago, when many of the most spectacular monuments in the English landscape, such as Maiden Castle in Dorset and Windmill Hill in Wiltshire, were built, used and abandoned in a single lifetime.
The fashion for the monuments, hilltops enclosed by rings of ditches, known to archaeologists as causewayed enclosures, instead of being the ritual work of generations as had been believed, began on the continent centuries earlier but spread from Kent to Cornwall within 50 years in about 3700 BC.
Alex Bayliss, an archaeologist and dating expert at English Heritage, said: "The dates were not what we expected when we began this project but prehistorians are just going to have to get their heads around it, a lot of what we have been taught in the past is complete bollocks."
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What do you want to bet it coincided with a period of climatic warming?
Must be the photo was verboten. My apologies. Too bad, it was a beaut’.
Bookmark (teehee)
Anyways
were built, used and abandoned in a single lifetime
This is what happens when you think it is only gonna rain for 25 days and it rains for 40.
The Maiden Castle one? Really remarkable!!
The Maiden Castle one? Really remarkable!!
3700 BC? Before the flood?
When people go to great lengths to build defensive works of this magnitude, it must of been something that really scared them greatly.
It was the first housing bubble.
Google satellite view of Maiden Castle (pan and zoom in the map). The east and west entrances through the ramparts and ditches can be seen towards either side of the image roughly where the modern paths are, while zooming in one level will reveal the square structure of the later Romano-Celtic Temple towards the east.
http://www.stone-circles.org.uk/stone/maidencastle.htm
Google satellite view of Maiden Castle (pan and zoom in the map). The east and west entrances through the ramparts and ditches can be seen towards either side of the image roughly where the modern paths are, while zooming in one level will reveal the square structure of the later Romano-Celtic Temple towards the east.
http://www.stone-circles.org.uk/stone/maidencastle.htm
3700 BC: Maybe those rendered homeless with the destruction of Atlantis started a housing boom on the mainland.
Must be the photo was verboten. My apologies. Too bad, it was a butte.
There, fixed it..
The scariest thing around is other peoples. Unless it was the dinosaurs.
Going to Montana soon.
You get that close you better come visit. We got some nice buttes out here. People drive up on them so they can check out the INL.
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