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Purpose of Stonehenge (my initial Model 1)? Forget all the self-serving English Heritage guff about summer or winter solstice celebration! Think OPTIMIZED pre-Bronze Age disposal of the dead. Think “sky burial”. Expect Model 2 shortly (next posting) …
Update, Jan 18, 2020: Yes, there’s been a change to this site’s title, one that reflects the arrival of my Model 2, the first instalment of which appeared on my science buzz site on New Year’s Day (expect a … Continue reading
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Why the hugely labour-intensive erection of those megalithic stone circles at Stonehenge – and numerous sites elsewhere?
Answer: maximal day-long illumination of the central area – designed to attract and retain voracious coastal gulls and maybe other flesh-scavenging birds (crows etc) for preliminary body-disposal. (Aka: ‘sky burial – combined with progressively shifting day-long shadowed areas that largely … Continue reading
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Tagged birds, excarnation, gulls, illumination, light, megaliths, Neollithic stone circles, new theory, pre-cremation, seagulls, shadow, sky burial, standing stones, summer solstice
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Today’s BBC-article – “Stonehenge: First residents from west Wales”
At last, the mass media (well, the BBC at any rate ) are beginning to home in on the real (thus far unmentionable purpose!) that Stonehenge and other megalithic sites almost certainly served in Neolithic society, 5000 years ago : … Continue reading
To understand the REAL purpose of Stonehenge 4500 years ago, try looking at if from a (peckish) bird’s eye point of view!
Summary (red font): We need a sober and realistic re-evaluation as to what Stonehenge represented. I say it existed for two-stage disembodiment of the recently dead – first by scavenger birds (“sky burial”) closely followed then – and only then … Continue reading
New or neglected evidence for Stonehenge having existed primarily as a site for ‘sky burial’ (well-supplied with bird perches!).
I’ll begin this new posting with a list of 10 new (or neglected) points regarding Stonehenge which have now been worked in to my overarching ‘sky burial’ narrative, first mooted here some 2 years ago. Yes, it’s time all that … Continue reading
Best not to ask what Stonehenge was really for … though that beaked sarsen (so-called) Heel Stone may provide a likely clue …
Hello again. Yes, it’s been a while since I last posted here (Spring 2016). Why the absence? Well, I’ll say more about that later. For now, I would simply ask you to note the new tag line to the right … Continue reading
Road map to a new theory of Stonehenge, Woodhenge, Silbury Hill and Durrington Walls. How our Neolithic ancestors ensured their survival during the winter months,
Update: September 10th 2014. (Yes, it’s over 2 years since I last posted ,and months since I last looked at this dormant site). But the BBC and papers today are full of the latest findings from Stonehenge (about which more … Continue reading
See my latest science-based hunch regarding Stonehenge - and its less-imposing Neolithic stone circle forerunners 