Posted on 04/27/2013 12:29:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The site of Stonehenge — that mysterious collection of British rocks that could have served as a calendar using the stars — was also a graveyard for the elite, according to new research.
A British group led by the University College London looked at 63 bodies surrounding the historical site. They determined these people were part of a group of elite families that brought their relatives to Stonehenge for burial over more than 200 years, starting from 2,900 BC.
The bodies were buried long before the rocks visible today were erected, though.
Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/101771/stonehenge-was-an-ancient-burial-ground-for-the-rich-study/#ixzz2Rh4d8FWJ
(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...
I don’t think so. The site may have been used to bury the wealthy, but I cannot see what’s in it for the workers to drag multi-ton blocks over miles of terrain to put them up.
I think the bodies and the stones are not related, imo.
Or, the high priests (or major shamen) and their immediate families were the only ones buried there ~ then the religious affiliation that owned the temple area changed hands and they simply no longer buried anybody there.
It’s Bush’s fault!
{All them little bitty holes inside the big circle were for planting shrubbery .... Not bodies.}
maybe they were worthy sacrifices
Or are... in this way.
The area is supposedly at the intersection of ley lines, and is supposedly high in some 'ethereal' energy. I can see why they would make it a graveyard, then later when there were more people and tools, they dedicated the site with this stonework.
What I find odd is that 'ancient' mankind built bigger and better monuments that 'modern' man has, or is even capable of building.
Somehow this seems backwards.
It’s not that we’re incapable of building it. We’re just not using the methods that they used to build it.
This one guy is building his own stonehenge by himself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K7q20VzwVs
They’re building one up the pike from me.
Maybe so but that is probably a minor part of the whole story. The site may be 5,000 or more years older than 2900 BC. I watched a show about a pit of burned human bones dug up there around 1900, studied, placed in a leather bag and reburied in the same hole. They weren’t the elite.
Oh, the Stone Age intolerance. I’m offended and indignant. I’ll take this discrimination case to the court in Bedrock; twist, twist
I was watching history channel or something and some historian said the common idea that in prehistory that every worked together for everyones benefit and there were no classes is not holding up with the evidence being dug up.
Women and minorities hardest hit....lol
St. Peter’s was/is also a graveyard (marterium) but that does not preclude it from being other things as well eg. church, pilgrimage destination etc. I would go so far as to say that most sacred architecture is multi-purpose.
Good read in this regard is Lindsey Jones’ Huermeneutics of Sacred Architecture.
Even the 1% of the stone age had to have their elaborate burials, the simple hole in the ground that the 99% had to settle for paid for Stone Henge.
oh!
Sort of like Forest Lawn?
This is speculation — (1) that the burials were “elite” people, and (2) that the burials and the Stonehenge monuments are related.
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