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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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Tagged Altar Stone, Anatolia, arrow shield, Avebury, ball-and-socket joint, birds, blockhouse, capstones, cremated bone, defleshing, dolmens, Durrington, English Heritage, excarnation, gulls, Heel Stone, henges, La Varde, lintels, Model 2, mortise-and-tenon joint, new theory, Pentre Ifan, refuge, salt-tolerant lichens, Seahenge, silbury hill, sky burial, Slaughter Stone, stone circles, summer solstice, the Avenue, winter solstice, Woodhenge
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New Silbury soul-release model can explain the rounded sarsen stones implanted concave-side down into sides of the growing Neolithic mound.
The following extract is taken from the informative yet perplexing book entitled “The Story of Silbury Hill” (Jim Leary and David Field, 2010, English Heritage). We start on page 39 for this, the first and most important instalment of … Continue reading
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Tagged animal scavengers, bones, consolation prize, David Field, Jim Leary, Neolithic, ribs, rounded, sarsen stones, silbury hill, soft tissue interment, sticks
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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
The plain, unadorned truth about Stonehenge and its neighbours, Durrington Walls and Silbury Hill – not for the faint-hearted…
I’ve been trying to write this post for some days, but have recoiled from the task. It’s not as if I have not put these ideas into the public domain already. I have – under my ‘science buzz’ blog. But … Continue reading
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Tagged dark side, Durrington Walls, light side, Neolithic, silbury hill, survival, winter diet
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Left: Woodhenge (artist’s impression) Centre: its more durable successor Stonehenge, May 2012 with rape crop (yellow) in background Right: Silbury Hill, that enigmatic Neolithic man-made mound some 17 miles (27 km) distant from Stonehenge that has so far defied … Continue reading
See my latest science-based hunch regarding Stonehenge - and its less-imposing Neolithic stone circle forerunners 