http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3082 finds lead to theory about use of monument
by Norma http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=273
http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2018 by archeologists may help shed light on this fascinating puzzle as well as on the lives and beliefs of our ancient ancestors.
A dig sponsored by Wessex Archaeology and the National Geographic Society located vestiges of a village of up to 25 dwellings believed to have housed either workers on the monument or people attending functions there.
The site, which is called Durrington Walls, lies two miles from Stonehenge. It also boasts the remains of a Woodhenge, a less permanent wooden version of Stonehenge. Durrington Walls was carbon dated to 2600 B.C., which means it existed when the permanent Stonehenge was being built, contemporary with the Great Pyramid of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3285 coast. The existence of a sophisticated social, religious and political network was already known from other evidence. Stonehenge is largely built of huge bluestones which originate over 150 miles to the west, in what is now Wales, and which historians say were associated with “holy wells,” springs revered as centers of healing and still a part of European folk religion. The transportation of the bluestones would have entailed a feat of engineering, religious commitment and social cohesion that most people do not associate with visions of the Stone Age.
The use of Durrington Walls for religious celebration also seems clear from the evidence of young swine remains, which would date an important feast to Midwinter, an early form of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2749.
One thing that is clear is that Stonehenge served different purposes at different periods. Stonehenge itself may have served originally as a burial site, in light of the evidence of at least 250 cremations found, and the fact that people never lived there. Without question Stonehenge originally had some astronomical (more properly astrological) importance, as it is oriented towards the Midsummer sunrise. The Woodhenge of Durrington Walls orients oppositely, towards the Midsummer sunset and Midwinter dawn. Esoteric symbology may indicate that if Stonehenge was a burial site, its placement was an enormous statement of faith in the idea of resurrection.
The vast bulk of people native to the British Isles are of Stone Age descent, according to http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=375 innate to our race shines through, lives on and prevails.