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Prehistoric art
Course: Prehistoric art > Unit 2
Lesson 3: Neolithic sites- Jericho
- Çatalhöyük
- Newgrange, a prehistoric tomb in Ireland
- Stonehenge
- Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites (UNESCO/NHK)
- Nuragic architecture at Su Nuraxi Barumini, Sardinia
- Running horned woman, Tassili n’Ajjer
- Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus (UNESCO/NHK)
- Rock-art sites of Tadrart Acacus: backstory
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Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites (UNESCO/NHK)
Stonehenge and Avebury, in Wiltshire, are among the most famous groups of megaliths in the world. The two sanctuaries consist of circles of menhirs arranged in a pattern whose astronomical significance is still being explored. These holy places and the nearby Neolithic sites are an incomparable testimony to prehistoric times. Source: UNESCO TV / © NHK Nippon Hoso Kyokai URL: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/373/.
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how did they lift the stones if they are human without a crane(6 votes)
Thor Heyerdahl (of Kon-Tiki fame) wrote a book about how the people on Easter Island erect those enormous stone heads. Perhaps the people who built Stonehenge did something similar.(7 votes)
0:21- "continued for more than a thousand years."
Wow! That's like us continuing to build on the Great Mosque at Cordoba.
Their world was fairly unchanging... I wonder what it would be like to live in a world with no apparent technological development, where little changes and where your history is more legend than fact?(6 votes)
At 45 seconds they mention the weight of each stones. How do they get this without disturbing the stones?(4 votes)- At2:27is Woodhenge the same size as Stonehenge?(4 votes)
- At about2:52, it says that Stonehenge was likely a sacred place where people were buried. What is that statement based on? As I understand it, not many human remains have been found -- 63 in all, I think. Is that correct? That doesn't seem like a lot if one of its main purposes be burial.
I read somewhere (haven't been able to find the link or I'd post it) that the stones at Stonehenge have not always stood the way they are now, that at one time all or almost all of the stones had fallen and that they were re-erected. If true, how might the placement of the stones be affected by the people who re-erected them?(2 votes)- In A child's history of England by Charles Dickens he says that Stonehenge was built by the druids for religious purposes.(3 votes)
How old is Stonehenge? When was it created?(3 votes)
Wasn't that in the video? Perhaps you need to listen again.(1 vote)
- Are the stones that fell over to heavy to be picked up and put back in there original places using a crane?(2 votes)
From the author:Cranes were used to reinstall fallen stones at Stonehenge in the 1950s.(2 votes)
what year did they find these bodies?(2 votes)- has anyone visually reconstructed what the Stonehenge originally looked like to prehistoric people? (according to the data we currently have) I'd like to see it with all the blue, white, and red.(2 votes)
Is there such a thing as socio-archaeologists? I think it is important to remember that people no matter how distant they are from you in time, geography, culture and or religion, were, are and will be just as intelligent and passionate about their experience.
For instance I believe it to be likely that the people of Stonehenge shared their legends and myths, but also told their history as well. After all you definitely wanted to teach your children how to behave, how to survive and how to make life more comfortable - you do that by telling remembered history, you tell legends and share religion to inspire things like Stonehenge.
One thousand years in Any religion leads to changes in interpretations, by Religious Leaders for the benefit (hopefully) of the community. The people of Stonehenge were not an isolated people, I wager they had to cope with at least some dialect differences, maybe even some language differences, (much like current Great Britain). Changes they most certainly saw, just like us.
Their culture if we could know it, might have something entirely alien to us, but they were people, just like us, driven by the same needs, the same commonality and differences, the same will to create a community that builds something that transcends all.(2 votes)
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