Maeshowe Winter Solstice As Viewed By Neolithic Man (Scotland)

The Scotsman ^ | 12-15-2005 | Caroline Wickham-Jones

[blam]

"whether you fell thru an ice crevice while hunting like Otzi...."

Oetzi was killed. He died from an arrow wound through the back but, he went down fighting because he had the blood of four other people on his clothes.

[Ciexyz]

Thanks for clarifying Otzi's death. I didn't know he went down fighting like Conan the Barbarian. Way to go, Otzi!

[Ragnar54]

Can you recommend any books that explore alternative explanations to structures such as Maeshowe? Not everything should be left to "pagan ritual".

[SunkenCiv]

Years ago, Wunderlich expressed, uh, wonder that the bathtub-shaped art found by Evans at Knossos were heralded (by him, and all the well-washed Victorian upper classes) as part of the first indoor plumbing system in Europe, while more level-headed excavators called them what they are -- bathtub-shaped sarcophagi.

It's a little odd that some of these sites are supposed observatories, while others are considered passage graves and other kinds of tombs (in nearly every case, already robbed of whatever they'd held, long ago). Y'know, 'cause that's what all of them (or perhaps just the overwhelming majority) are. ;')

No books come to mind. I recall reading recently a story I'd heard a while back -- that a carving found on Stonehenge appeared to show a Mycenaean knife, which led the discoverer and many others to believe that there was some sort of trade link between Britain and Mycenaean Greece (this is something that wouldn't come as that much of a surprise to me, but anyway...). Eventually the position got stretched out to say that Stonehenge was itself a monument of some Mycenaean ruler.

Then along came scientific dating, and it was found that Stonehenge antedates Mycenaean Greece by at least 1000 years (in my view, more like 1500). Megalithic structures all over Britain and Europe (and even on Malta; not too sure about those mysterious towers that cover the landscape of Corsica) are generally centuries older than the Great Pyramid.

This is not to say that a bunch of early Britons got bored after building 'em, and then headed for Giza. ;')

Neolithic France
Archaeology | May/June 2005 | Jennifer Pinkowski
Posted on 04/21/2005 10:03:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1388289/posts

Malta’s Magnificent Hypogeum
The Cultured Traveler | May 2001 | Patrick Totty
Posted on 09/21/2004 11:07:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1223204/posts

New Dating For Wat's Dyke
History Today | August 1999 | Keith Nurse
Posted on 07/30/2004 7:13:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1181689/posts

[Ragnar54]

Thanks!

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure!

[SunkenCiv]

not too sure about those mysterious towers that cover the landscape of Corsica

Whoops. The towers are on Sardinia. [blush] There are towers on Corsica, but they were built by Genoa in the 16th c. ;') Anyway, the Sardinian towers are coming soon to a FR topic near you. :'D

[SunkenCiv]

Sardinia's prehistoric towers
Science Frontiers | No. 55: Jan-Feb 1988 | William R. Corliss
Posted on 01/09/2006 10:13:36 PM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1555139/posts

[Sweetjustusnow]

There are many possibilities that are more common sense then the constant pagan worship theme.

Thanks for the follow up.

[BlackVeil]

Solstice flag!

That story is current also for this year, and at that story, they have a link to the site where they show a webcam for the arrival of the sun's rays.

[Sam Cree]

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[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 12/17/2005. A re-ping, figure out why. :') Thanks blam.

[Salamander]

less than an hour ping

[The Cajun]

A re-ping, figure out why. :')

Is this some sort of test?

:)

[shibumi]

"All Hail Spring!"

[Salamander]

Smart ass.

:-P

[shibumi]

[bert]

Why go abroad when one can get the view in America, at Cahokia

Cahokia had a population of 25,000 when London was a tiny village

Cahokia is agriss the river from Ferguson MO

[bert]

there are similar focused solstice calendars all over the southwest. Everybody had one