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Megalithic monuments were possible because of the transition to agriculture which created population surpluses and a growing season during which a lot of free labor was available during the warmest season of the year.
The gain was that if someone were to come upon your monument, they would realize there were a lot of strong men around and that the area is well defended, highly organized, and ruled by a powerful dude.
Maybe a wall would have been better haha... who knows what these things were for.. I just came across this and never knew about the place
It seems as thought Orkney and the Shetland islands have very impressive neolithic sites. Since their were no trees to built with, they had to make their structures out of stone, and so they have survived. They are a reminder that these forgotten people were clearly less primitive than we have been taught to believe.
Safe, as you mentioned, and the fact that the islands have virtually no trees forced the inhabitants to build everything with stone.
It is probably that a lot of sites of that era were built of wood, as it would have been far, far easier for people at the time to build. Those sites have all vanished and almost impossible for modern archaeologists to find. Only the ones built of stone survive.
It is probably that a lot of sites of that era were built of wood, as it would have been far, far easier for people at the time to build. Those sites have all vanished and almost impossible for modern archaeologists to find. Only the ones built of stone survive.
In an archaeological dig it is pretty easy to determine where wood posts were all the way back to antiquity. Even if the ancient wood does not survive, the change in soil color quite clearly divulges the postholes. This is called the post pipe. In very wet, boggy, anaerobic soil, the wood itself can survive even for thousands of years.
As of this moment, what do we actually know of Stonehenge? We know roughly when it was built, about 6000 years ago. Yet we still don't know why it was built, and no definitive theory for how it was built.
What do you guys know about the site from a historical perceptive, and what does it tell us about prehistoric Neolithic people? Fact and theory are both welcome.
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The Mystery of Stonehenge
