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Posted on 01/09/2021 7:14:10 AM PST by BenLurkin
"The short answer is that I don't know and neither does anyone else," said Rosemary Hill, a historian and author of "Stonehenge...[Roll Credits]
Before we go any further, it's important to note that, technically speaking, Stonehenge isn't even a henge. The word "henge" is in fact a relatively recent term, first defined by British archaeologist Thomas Kendrick in 1932 to mean a circular bank with a ditch inside it and one or more entrances protruding through the bank. "But Stonehenge is the other way around, it's a bank inside a ditch," Hill told Live Science.
Even ignoring the reverse order of ditch and bank, most henges still wouldn't have looked like Stonehenge because they were usually made from wood, which makes sense. Wood is everywhere, and is much easier to carve and transport, even if it isn't as durable. It wasn't until the 20th century that archaeologists realized that Britain once boasted a bounty of wood henges that have long since rotted away and vanished from sight.
In Ireland and the Brittany region of France, there are also some similarly ancient stone circles, which though technically not henges do overlap in academic discussions. There's also a wooden henge-like monument dating to the late Stone and early Bronze ages that's not too far from Berlin, and a 4,500-year-old "timber circle" monument in Portugal. If we're counting all of these different types of circles together, there are thought to be thousands sprinkled around the British Isles and parts of mainland Europe.
"Stonehenge remains a mystery, and you can be a Druid or an anthropologist or an archaeologist or a New Ager and you can bring your own thing to it."
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Was this from a hundred years ago while we still had snow? As to why? Joke’s on us. Druids are laughing their butts off.
To prank future generations?
LOL. That’s exactly what I was thinking.
That’s easy. It was built so bored people could have something to talk about in 2021 . . .
Pilgrimage ‘walk’.
Stonehenge was built so that Britons could navigate to Australia and brew the best beer in the world.
It was built because some people had a whole lot of time on their hands, and they wanted to play dominoes with the gods.
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Early Burning Man celebrations.
Stonehenge. Where the demons dwell. Where the banshees live and they do live well.
Nobody knows who they were or what they were doing.
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Was it an attempt to create something that kinda sorta rhymes with ‘orange’?
The real reason is they had no TV or Internet to occupy their time. They needed something to do in their 14 extra hours of spare time each day.
Because they could.
Genesis 6:6
Many believe the giants of old built many structures.
The giant skulls used to be on display at the Smithsonian and you were able to read articles until mid to late 1950’s in the NY Times and WaPo, then the darwinist decided enough.
The first, if you build it, they will come.
An excellent and honest answer! I am always amused when self-proclaimed Druids claim Stonehenge (3,000 BC) when it predates the "Beaker People" (2,500 BC) as evidenced by recent DNA testing of contemporary Neolithic burials. As such, they pre-date the Indo-Europeans (1,500 BC) who were the probable Celts & Druidic religion.
Current DNA research makes it likely that there was a non-violent 90% population replacement of the original likely Stonehenge builders around 500 years after the main construction there. Waiting on other groups to make their claims since "if no one knows", anyone can claim, right?
That is best and most honest answer there is about why Stonehenge was built - we really do not know.
All else is speculation and worse it is speculation into which very modern views of many things are inserted into the minds of those who built it.
There are NO ancient “writings” connected to or with Stonehenge that were left by it’s builders. All that ANY archeologist can do is speculate.
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