Can't go visit anywhere just yet due to the virus, but in the mean time I've been enjoying reading about all the amazing new discoveries in archaeology. Let me know what you think in the comments!
I've given up on a bunch of your videos now. I start because you have interesting topics. I stop because you give the most incredibly boring presentations.
Pete your presentations are anything but boring. You are meticulous brilliant and dynamic. I adore you and everything you do and I'm very grateful. Don't worry about stupid rude thankless extremely boring know nothing trolls.
Wow .. I grew in a house literally right up inside this shaft opposite Durrington Walls !! .. love learning this . Currently watching this in india where I now live . How cool .
History is so interesting, I hope we never stop searching for answers though we most possibly never get a solid truth. What scares me is those people who want to change the known facts about the recent history we already have for beneficial political reasons.
@Delta Fox Aye, with only two reports. Makes you wonder about the Venezuelan high rate of death by firearms really. Gotta wonder how many people's COD is listed as "slipped, and fell on a bullet".
Thanks for the updates. It’s exciting what info is finally coming out from the LidarxGPS mappings years ago, now that people have had a little time to do ground work. It’s a great reminder than there’s always more to learn
You do a nice job of clearly explaining the sites you cover. Your pace is good, clear and even. You explain the past research and neatly introduce new material. You don't veer off into wild theories which are not based in research, but you make it clear that theories about these sites continue to evolve. Keep it up!
When I read the article online; because I am an archaeology student with Timothy Darvill one of the guys that is big on Stonehenge, and it was on our group chat i nearly wet myself laughing, that it was such an achievement to discover ancient people could count 😂😂. Obviously they could, sometimes us archaeologists are waaay to arrogant. Personally I think the Neolithic was a very advanced civilisation, no primitives at all, clearly more intelligent than us who can't rival there achievements. A massive issue with archaeology is the Darwinist evolution but applied to cultures, it is utter hogwash to me it seems like in Neolithic Britain, Egypt and Tiwanaku we get more advanced the further back we go. Also dating sciences like Typology are inaccurate for when we have little written records, typology is when more advanced material culture is assumed to be later than "primitive" material culture. For instance Roman pottery is better made than Saxon pottery, but Roman pottery is earlier not later than Saxon pottery. Also historical events like the Bronze Age collapse and the Dark Ages in Europe show how easy it is for Civilisation to flourish then collapse. This could easily have happened before and no readible writing has survived. Dont even get me started on how temperatures were higher in the Neolithic than today and Doggerland 😂
I hope more will come to their senses and understand how clever and advanced these early Neolithic "primitive" people were. As for the earliest known form of writing, I wonder if you are aware of the Tărtăria tablets discovered in 1961 in Transylvania. It is still very much debated but that's the beauty of it specially when one is going to be an archaelogist. By the way, if the tablets had been found some decades earlier they would have been called the 'Alsótatárlaka tablets' and it could have been more convenient to examine them. For some reason the leader of the archaelogists who found the tablets Nicolae Vlassa was never willing to discuss the circumstances of the find or the stratigraphy. That is another issue...
@@miklosdavid7627 And that is to assume that writing was even a form of progression to begin with. Oral tradition was a powerful one, and allowed the reciting abilities of our forebears to span incredible lengths of poems and ancestral lines. The transfer of a human ability into an external technology takes its toll on the intelligence of the peoples. Most archaeologists couldn't even tell you what they had for dinner last night (I jest, of course), yet maintain that certain things were 'impossible for their time'.
Just to the right of Stonehenge on the map at 1:05 and elsewhere in the video, the dots, which appear to be mounds or barrows, show a clear star map of the Pleiades. I would be interested to know if the other mound and barrow positions in the broader landscape also show star constellations or perhaps a sky map. I am from South Africa so I do not know all the northern hemisphere constellations. As above, so below?
“People from across the sea” entered Britain? Uh.. Doggerland anyone? 500 000 to 4000 BC, the British Isles were connected to the mainland, or am I wrong on this?
15 minutes drive from the village where I grew up. It used to be open access a long time ago. You could just park up in the car park then across the road and walk into the field where they are and walk around them. Trouble was people kept chipping bits off the stones and deep grooves were appearing where so many walked the same route damaging the area around the stones. So it was fenced off and entry was controlled (it was still free) then an admission fee was introduced. Then they stopped parking on another road from where you could take photos. Then they closed off the road leading to the visitor car park to non visitor traffic. Then they opened up the fancy visitor centre with cafe and shop of course and the admission fees have shot up. Avebury is much prettier
As someone who lives in the Avebury area, I was pleased to find out new facts about the wider landscape. Liked, subscribed and looking forward to viewing more from this channel.
Jörg Westermann I am from northern Germany, now living in Australia; apparently I have the same (ancient) DNA as a skeleton found on England’s south coast. Amazing.
When some monuments are taken down, it's not meant to change or forget history. Instead it is to no longer honor people or situations that shouldn't have been honored to begin with.
@@wendyeames5758 what exactly qualifies you to decide that millions of people over generations were wrong, and now suddenly you appear with all this new overwhelming truth? Is it possible they knew or valued something you don't?
No, it will not change history...but apparently it's an antidote to systemic racism. Ah but were happy then, and we had nothing....because we were poor...anybody?
I once wrote a poem in which I said "They went to Stonehenge, and they saw stones". I worked at London's Natural History Museum for nine years. I made a study of their Stonehenge model, that used to be on display. I saw fairly quickly some of its functionality that had nothing to do with solstices. It was a radionic machine, and the model was even functioning on the gallery, even though it was not accurately aligned. First of all it WAS NOT a Sun temple, it was an Earth Goddess temple. In its later stages it had three concentric circles that I counted around - there were 56 Aubrey holes, 30 Sarsens and 44 blue stones inside the Sarsen ring. 56 is 8x7, 30 sarsens - 15 on each side, that is 7+8 on each side. The 44 blue stones, 22 on each side, that is 7+7+8. 7 is a number associated with The Earth, 8 is associated with The Sun. The subtle radionic energies coming from slightly north of east came from The Sun TO The Earth. The five trilithons formed (when it was complete) a 'Mudra' or hand sign. Hold your palm upwards and draw the fingers upwards to form a claw, moving the thumb slightly towards the first finger - that is how the trilithons were arranged. If you put posts in the Aubrey holes, and joined every one to every one with ropes it would draw a seven pointed star. The Sarsens sit on the internal cross points and the trilithons are very close to five of the seven sides of the central heptagon. Maybe that is how they positioned the stones? The sarsen circle was a lense that steered the energy flows between the trilithons, which in turn pulled those energies down into the ground. There is more but already this is long, so see what anyone can make of this?
Clearly there is "purpose" to these "monuments". Not just one little thing added to another. Hope it can be figured out! How much could we learn, even about ourselves?🤔
For nomadic people (everybody pre10,1000BC) encountering monoliths would've been a polite warning not to hunt/graze/gather here. Nomads used quern stones, but standing stones went hand in hand with millstones and settlement.
I spent some of my army days near Salisbury, a year at Bulford camp, near Durringtom and 6 weeks course at Larkhill camp. From my barrackroom window at Larkhill I could see Stonehenge at about 2 miles off.
I was able to visit the wood henge, Stonehenge and walk the stones at Avebury in the late 80s. They were magnificent and intriguing. I especially loved Avebury because you could still get close to the stones as opposed to Stonehenge (due sadly to vandalism). I’m glad to hear that research is still ongoing. Thank you for a fascinating video.
Looking at the relative placement and it’s precision, possible astronomic alignments and the idea of the ‘megalithic yard I wonder if they had knowledge of more sophisticated geometry which included equivalents to Pi etc. It’s hard to imagine doing all this by pacing alone. I also wonder if some of the features had a more practical purpose we haven’t fathomed related to agriculture or production of leather, pottery etc. The biggest thing for me was that the area must have at various time had quite large population centres and must have been bustling with activity. It will be hard to put the picture together and separate the sacred from the practical.
If only we could find some writing by an ancient visitor to give us some more insight into the way our ancestors thought. Guessing is okay, I suppose. But I would love to KNOW.
I hate it when "experts" declare "they did X because they believed Y" - how do they know what ancient peoples believed, or how they thought, or how they saw their world and their place in it? Answer, they don't. They're just guessing, same as the rest of us.
Veronica Cawelti. Shamanism and respecting ancestral spirits, beliefs destroyed by the enforced introduction of christianity. The builders of the Neolithic monuments designed these with inbuilt astronomical orientations, the observation of key dates in the annual cycle was already practised in the ice age. Much is KNOWN about stone circles, have a look at recent research?
We've spent years wondering how they managed to drag those stones all that way right,,,well, could it be possible that some of the trenchwork found is actually remnants of an old canal network used to float them in??
Just occurred to me that while we think of this being done by a people, they must have had ingenuous individuals with an intellectual hierarchy and transfer of knowledge.
The map shows it took over 5,000 years for Anatolians, their descendants or their culture to even reach Northern France yet the video gives the impression they just turned up one day in Britain and started building henges.
They were just discovered somewhat recently, I don't think anybody has dug into them yet. Unfortunately with covid still going on, it's probably not a priority. I'm so excited to see what's in them
I can't help but look at the aerial views of the sites (highlighted in red and white colors) and think about the Large Hadron Collider. Given the piezoelectric effects existence, could those people living in 4000 - 3000BC have developed some primitive form of accelerator and, given one of the theories of what the LHC can accomplish is the opening of door ways to other dimensions, could this have been a source for the mythology surrounding Stonehenge's use as some form of "Star Gate" for space of inter-dimensional travel?
It has been shown by DNA analysis that the "wave" of farmers displacing hunter-gatherers is not accurate. What traveled was the idea of farming, not the people. See Bryan Sykes's work on this.
Just a thought, could they have moved the stones only in the winter, over ice and snow? Sleds were used then, and it would have freed up time for crops n summer. Just a thought.
Does this new monument affect Stonehenge? I see the circle misses it, but it puts a different layout to the landscape. I know the Stonehenge avenue is laid out, but I always thought it is set funny in the landscape. Perhaps this newly discovered monument may go a ways to explaining that.
when you show "the entire stonehenge map" at 49 seconds, it looks like a giant star/constellation map........................................just sayin...lol...........................................many love, much props
The most positive thing I can say about this video is the the word *_"maybe"_* is used a lot. No one can know for sure what was going on and what people were thinking in prehistoric times. I suggest for each and everyone to consider the facts only and think for them selves about why and how. The more facts you gather from various locations *_and sources,_* the closer to reality you're likely to get, and remember that any explanation given is just someones interpretation of the evidence at hand
So back in the day we used to go on school trips to Stone Henge, play on them and eat our pack lunches of them. Two years ago I went back to the UK with my wife and guess what? We had to stand behind a perimeter fence. I wish she had an opportunity to get closer to them.
5:24 looks like star constellations to me, albeit might of been seen, interpreted and named differently to them but none the less they are there. On left under the large "The Cursus" you can clearly see the little dipper.
Ok, is the more or less accepted timeline of the different waves of people who invaded/settled in Britain and other Western European lands (mainly what's now Spain & France ), thus: The original Mesolithic Hunter/gatherers (who are themselves a mixture of Neanderthals & Homo sapiens from Africa (hence the striking combo of blue eyes from Neanderthals & dark skin from Homo sapiens)). Next is the early farmers from the Middle East/southern Anatolia - who seemed to have brought not only farming but their megalithic construction/culture to Britain/Spain, France etc. Finally, the Bell Beaker Culture, which apparently was not only Indo-European but specifically Proto-Celtic. Most of these guys came to the British Isles via the Iberian peninsula but some also from Central Europe/the Alps region. The interesting thing also is that the Lusitanians from ancient Spain are thought to be (by language according to the sparse inscriptions that have been found) a very ancient Indo-European peoples that spoke a type of Proto-Celtic language. Fascinating stuff, thanks for the vid. PS- I know that not all this is fully accepted as fact by all anthropologists/archaeologists, if anyone has more updated info lmk
Not just Lusitania, Galicia (north of Portugal but part of Spain) origins supposedly derived from a Celtic culture. The name PortuCale/Portugal may also have had Gaelic origin, due to the _Cale_ part. Freddy Silva researched this for years and wrote interesting connections about this in his Templars book.
@@andanssas oh the ancient Iberian peninsula was made up of mostly Celtic tribes, not just Galicians and the proto-Celtic Lusitanians. The exceptions were the Iberians themselves along the Mediterranean shore of Spain and of course the mysterious Vascos (Basques). Then you also had the older Tartessian culture on southern Atlantic shore of the Iberian peninsula. Apparently there's no consensus among historians as to the origins of the Tartessians. Pretty much all the rest of Iberia was Celtic or proto-Celtic. And that includes the Celtiberians.
The problem with archaeology is that it’s being overrun by people who have a preconception that only their opinion counts & that to question that opinion is in some way verging (in their opinion) on being a racist .
@@davidalton8634 Agreed. There are some people who like claiming that ancient history can only be viewed along their extremist left wing "woke" narrative and anyone who doesn't follow their narrative is of course automatically a racist LOL...there's a few channels on YT that seem like they're run by left wing trolls just looking to argue, strange.
I got to visit Stonehenge once and I have to say, no other structure has ever given me such a palpable feeling of sacred space. And I don't even believe in anything in particular. It just feels like the memory of everything that ever happened there seeped into the soil, so that even the grass somehow understands the magnitude of where it is.
Hello Pete: Perhaps these were mining pits for copper, aligned in a manner in keeping with contemporary superstitions about where the mineral could be found. ?
It amazes me! Just the sheer scale of these projects. All done by brute force. Manual labour with primitive stone tools.I expect there were a lot of injuries and casualties along the way. I have to wonder if there has been any evidence of these injuries found in skeletons?
Hi there Pete great stuff once again! If you could i'm left wondering about two things: 1- Were these shafts like actual wooden or stone posts? if so, do you think the stones were just removed? or were these just holes of cylindrical shape to start with? 2- Why do you think these animals predate those who buried them by generations? Cheers mate
So even after a year or so after first watching this. I think that this needs said. Excellent documentary presentation btw. So after first hearing the news of the 1901, 1919 and 1958 rebuilds of the Stonehenge site for “apparent excavation” were altered and repositioned over the top of back filled concrete. Which ended up filling many of these shafts mentioned here. That’s the “modern development” - just shows what we are told and what we are not. I have the same views on the sphynx excavations. I’ll link the aforementioned vids below
There were more “development plans” for a tunnel leading right through the site that’s now been cancelled again because of public outcry but I think it was all another reuse for potentially another scavenger hunt of the site - but it worked in their favour anyway because if you search for Stonehenge tunnels now all you get is a sea of results about news on the motorway they were wanting to plan instead of videos like this exposing what is so much closer to the truth than we have previously been told
yes, the more devout the godbox/godboxes are, the more they cannot handle actual realities, and the BS they spout to exonerate themselves of mob-rule effects upon others; and they wish to ignore, remove & hide or burn & destroy which afflicts their indoctrinated mindset.
So you enjoyed a piece of free content and then complain because the creator attempted to recoup some of his lost time and energy? Fascinating. Curiously, do you want videos like this to exist?
Thanks ,so interesting there’s so much more and I think there is even bigger things to discover definitely I think this is only just the , Tip of the things that is already known to date . Thank you for covering this amazing historical moment with us all and please keep up all your heard work as there’s so much out here for us to learn about past centuries that we really have no idea about as three always something different turning up as times go on and there’s been so much hidden history that only over these last few year’s that more facts have proven that most historians believe everything that we think we new is actually very different to what actually happened ,with all the technology today things are beginning to be unveiled .
The small stones are old but the big ones are new. The great pyramid of Gissa is in fact several centuries older than the big stones in stonehenge. For something really old and remarkable see "Göbeklitepe"
You show the carpark postholes at Stonehenge, but you omit to say these holes are radiocarbon dated, one giving a corrected date for c 8.100 BC. Enormous wooden posts of a lunar observatory stood there, long before the stones were brought to Stonehenge. The importance of the latitude was already recognised in the Mesolithic.
I wonder if there is a connection between the farming culture entering Western Europe from Anatolia and the people that built complexes like Gobekli Tepe a few millennia earlier.
that would be my guess. i think that Early farmers may have had very strong central governments and were ruled by priest class who organized society in a highly centralized manner. its possible just having the ability to mass society is intoxicating to people developing out of hunter gatherer life style. I wonder if Stone Hendge marks the first spot where Neo-lithic farmers colonized britian and that is why it is such an important spot? was it a capitol?
Of course they were laid out by the stars... in the Gudea Cylinders from 2500BC Gudea is told to build Ningirsu's temple in accordance with the holy stars above... so there is proof that they knew what they were doing even back then
I live with in Milton Keynes and a lot of roads , houses or offices share names from Salisbury and the surrounding areas. When I first visited Salisbury I had a feeling of “coming home” . I was wondering is there a link between Milton Keynes and Salisbury?
Following the subsidence and fall of Atlantis, the survivors arrived here from the Antarctic. They needed to know if further comets were due. Stonehenge was the foundation for the observatory Time 10000bc.
Benches. Etc. for giants and their gatherings. They stepped up on small interior rocks. Their feet were off the ground sitting down. Author. Haunts of san jose. And 66 6
Too many ads, Pete. They really subtract from enjoyment of your content, and interrupt the continuity of your discourse. A couple at the beginning is fine.
Is the pottery evidence of new comers or evidence of trade? We now trade was well developed across Europe. Making assertion about the Amesbury Archer being one of the first metallurgists in Europe, is based on a sample too small to make such claims. It may be the earliest we know of, but that does not mean he was the first or one of the first. I think it would be nice to give credit to the work of Mike _ Parker Pearson, for his great work at these monuments.
He would have been there in one of the first decades or ~century of metallurgy. Pretty close. I'm not sure but I am under the impression that there are rather a lot of Beaker artifacts, suggesting more than just trade.
Can't go visit anywhere just yet due to the virus, but in the mean time I've been enjoying reading about all the amazing new discoveries in archaeology. Let me know what you think in the comments!
I've given up on a bunch of your videos now. I start because you have interesting topics. I stop because you give the most incredibly boring presentations.
Pete your presentations are anything but boring. You are meticulous brilliant and dynamic. I adore you and everything you do and I'm very grateful. Don't worry about stupid rude thankless extremely boring know nothing trolls.
actually you can go anywhere you want,, because no one is there to bust you..wink wink
@@conspiracyphreakphreaka6082 Finally someone who hasn't fell for the biggest lie ever perpetrated on mankind
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Wow .. I grew in a house literally right up inside this shaft opposite Durrington Walls !! .. love learning this . Currently watching this in india where I now live . How cool .
History is so interesting, I hope we never stop searching for answers though we most possibly never get a solid truth.
What scares me is those people who want to change the known facts about the recent history we already have for beneficial political reasons.
@Delta Fox Aye, with only two reports. Makes you wonder about the Venezuelan high rate of death by firearms really.
Gotta wonder how many people's COD is listed as "slipped, and fell on a bullet".
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Thanks for the updates. It’s exciting what info is finally coming out from the LidarxGPS mappings years ago, now that people have had a little time to do ground work. It’s a great reminder than there’s always more to learn
You do a nice job of clearly explaining the sites you cover. Your pace is good, clear and even. You explain the past research and neatly introduce new material. You don't veer off into wild theories which are not based in research, but you make it clear that theories about these sites continue to evolve. Keep it up!
When I read the article online; because I am an archaeology student with Timothy Darvill one of the guys that is big on Stonehenge, and it was on our group chat i nearly wet myself laughing, that it was such an achievement to discover ancient people could count 😂😂. Obviously they could, sometimes us archaeologists are waaay to arrogant. Personally I think the Neolithic was a very advanced civilisation, no primitives at all, clearly more intelligent than us who can't rival there achievements. A massive issue with archaeology is the Darwinist evolution but applied to cultures, it is utter hogwash to me it seems like in Neolithic Britain, Egypt and Tiwanaku we get more advanced the further back we go. Also dating sciences like Typology are inaccurate for when we have little written records, typology is when more advanced material culture is assumed to be later than "primitive" material culture. For instance Roman pottery is better made than Saxon pottery, but Roman pottery is earlier not later than Saxon pottery. Also historical events like the Bronze Age collapse and the Dark Ages in Europe show how easy it is for Civilisation to flourish then collapse. This could easily have happened before and no readible writing has survived. Dont even get me started on how temperatures were higher in the Neolithic than today and Doggerland 😂
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I hope more will come to their senses and understand how clever and advanced these early Neolithic "primitive" people were.
As for the earliest known form of writing, I wonder if you are aware of the Tărtăria tablets discovered in 1961 in Transylvania. It is still very much debated but that's the beauty of it specially when one is going to be an archaelogist.
By the way, if the tablets had been found some decades earlier they would have been called the 'Alsótatárlaka tablets' and it could have been more convenient to examine them. For some reason the leader of the archaelogists who found the tablets Nicolae Vlassa was never willing to discuss the circumstances of the find or the stratigraphy. That is another issue...
True, this speaker is such an idiot.
@@miklosdavid7627 And that is to assume that writing was even a form of progression to begin with. Oral tradition was a powerful one, and allowed the reciting abilities of our forebears to span incredible lengths of poems and ancestral lines. The transfer of a human ability into an external technology takes its toll on the intelligence of the peoples. Most archaeologists couldn't even tell you what they had for dinner last night (I jest, of course), yet maintain that certain things were 'impossible for their time'.
What was the average age at death of these advanced people of whom you speak?
Just to the right of Stonehenge on the map at 1:05 and elsewhere in the video, the dots, which appear to be mounds or barrows, show a clear star map of the Pleiades. I would be interested to know if the other mound and barrow positions in the broader landscape also show star constellations or perhaps a sky map. I am from South Africa so I do not know all the northern hemisphere constellations. As above, so below?
“People from across the sea” entered Britain? Uh.. Doggerland anyone? 500 000 to 4000 BC, the British Isles were connected to the mainland, or am I wrong on this?
You mean 6000 BC. Here’s a 50 minute documentary I made on Doggerland back in January :-
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@@PeteKellyHistory As far as I know , we were connected to Europe until 3,000 years ago.
Britain became an island by 6000bc roughly
@@stephengent9974 3,000 years ago is 1000 BC Bruh :)
this land was not the British isles over 1000 years ago , empire ! roman ! the land was called the Anglo Isle .
Well done, giving full background on Stonehenge and environs helped understand the significance of the recent discovery.
Awesome, saw the news of the massive post hole ring today!
15 minutes drive from the village where I grew up. It used to be open access a long time ago. You could just park up in the car park then across the road and walk into the field where they are and walk around them. Trouble was people kept chipping bits off the stones and deep grooves were appearing where so many walked the same route damaging the area around the stones. So it was fenced off and entry was controlled (it was still free) then an admission fee was introduced. Then they stopped parking on another road from where you could take photos. Then they closed off the road leading to the visitor car park to non visitor traffic. Then they opened up the fancy visitor centre with cafe and shop of course and the admission fees have shot up.
Avebury is much prettier
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As someone who lives in the Avebury area, I was pleased to find out new facts about the wider landscape. Liked, subscribed and looking forward to viewing more from this channel.
Awesome. Very well done👍👍👍Greetings from the North of Germany😎✌
Jörg Westermann I am from northern Germany, now living in Australia; apparently I have the same (ancient) DNA as a skeleton found on England’s south coast. Amazing.
@@gudrunschuck7290 This is really amazing👍👍👍All the best😎✌✌
Amazing, I was not expecting any new major archeological discoveries in such a well and long known site as the Stonehenge.
Lol
Nothing in this video is new. the carbon dating results just confirm what was already know. and the sites themselves have been known for decades.
This has absolutely nothing to do with Stonehenge.
As intriguing as ever! Brings back happy memories of being able to walk inside the circle in the early 80s.
Tearing down monuments doesn't change history.
Keith Staton are you being ironic?
When some monuments are taken down, it's not meant to change or forget history. Instead it is to no longer honor people or situations that shouldn't have been honored to begin with.
@@wendyeames5758 what exactly qualifies you to decide that millions of people over generations were wrong, and now suddenly you appear with all this new overwhelming truth? Is it possible they knew or valued something you don't?
@@wendyeames5758 We know very little about history....all is a guess game...and always the winners get to tell it.
No, it will not change history...but apparently it's an antidote to systemic racism. Ah but were happy then, and we had nothing....because we were poor...anybody?
I once wrote a poem in which I said "They went to Stonehenge, and they saw stones". I worked at London's Natural History Museum for nine years. I made a study of their Stonehenge model, that used to be on display. I saw fairly quickly some of its functionality that had nothing to do with solstices. It was a radionic machine, and the model was even functioning on the gallery, even though it was not accurately aligned. First of all it WAS NOT a Sun temple, it was an Earth Goddess temple. In its later stages it had three concentric circles that I counted around - there were 56 Aubrey holes, 30 Sarsens and 44 blue stones inside the Sarsen ring. 56 is 8x7, 30 sarsens - 15 on each side, that is 7+8 on each side. The 44 blue stones, 22 on each side, that is 7+7+8. 7 is a number associated with The Earth, 8 is associated with The Sun. The subtle radionic energies coming from slightly north of east came from The Sun TO The Earth. The five trilithons formed (when it was complete) a 'Mudra' or hand sign. Hold your palm upwards and draw the fingers upwards to form a claw, moving the thumb slightly towards the first finger - that is how the trilithons were arranged. If you put posts in the Aubrey holes, and joined every one to every one with ropes it would draw a seven pointed star. The Sarsens sit on the internal cross points and the trilithons are very close to five of the seven sides of the central heptagon. Maybe that is how they positioned the stones? The sarsen circle was a lense that steered the energy flows between the trilithons, which in turn pulled those energies down into the ground. There is more but already this is long, so see what anyone can make of this?
Yeah and the tooth fairy aswell 😂
In 1974 at midnight we went to the center of the monument and heard a subtle buzzing.
A great addition to the ongoing mystery of Stonehenge. Thanks.
Absolutely a phenomenal video! Loved it thank you.
Clearly there is "purpose" to these "monuments". Not just one little thing added to another. Hope it can be figured out! How much could we learn, even about ourselves?🤔
For nomadic people (everybody pre10,1000BC) encountering monoliths would've been a polite warning not to hunt/graze/gather here. Nomads used quern stones, but standing stones went hand in hand with millstones and settlement.
I spent some of my army days near Salisbury, a year at Bulford camp, near Durringtom and 6 weeks course at Larkhill camp. From my barrackroom window at Larkhill I could see Stonehenge at about 2 miles off.
Interesting presentation. Certainly gives one food for thought. Much speculation which. in truth, is required. Thanks.👍👀👀👀👍
I can't believe I'm just now discovering your channel! This is good stuff! Thanks!
I was able to visit the wood henge, Stonehenge and walk the stones at Avebury in the late 80s. They were magnificent and intriguing. I especially loved Avebury because you could still get close to the stones as opposed to Stonehenge (due sadly to vandalism). I’m glad to hear that research is still ongoing. Thank you for a fascinating video.
I can't hear of Stonehenge any longer without hearing Spinal Tap.
"You've built a replica of Stonehenge that can be "Trod Upon by a Drawf!""
Those very same perched slab constructions can be found as far south as the Region of Apulia, in Italy.
That’s very interesting. Perhaps Peter could do an overview on that.
I always wondered why Stonehenge would be so popular, even in the stone age, if there were these circles everywhere.
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Looking at the relative placement and it’s precision, possible astronomic alignments and the idea of the ‘megalithic yard I wonder if they had knowledge of more sophisticated geometry which included equivalents to Pi etc. It’s hard to imagine doing all this by pacing alone. I also wonder if some of the features had a more practical purpose we haven’t fathomed related to agriculture or production of leather, pottery etc. The biggest thing for me was that the area must have at various time had quite large population centres and must have been bustling with activity. It will be hard to put the picture together and separate the sacred from the practical.
If only we could find some writing by an ancient visitor to give us some more insight into the way our ancestors thought. Guessing is okay, I suppose. But I would love to KNOW.
I hate it when "experts" declare "they did X because they believed Y" - how do they know what ancient peoples believed, or how they thought, or how they saw their world and their place in it?
Answer, they don't. They're just guessing, same as the rest of us.
@Milton Hackett - why wouldn't they tell us the truth?
@Milton Hackett - nope.
@Milton Hackett Wows what an awesome way of convincing some one you weren't just talking out of your ass..
Veronica Cawelti. Shamanism and respecting ancestral spirits, beliefs destroyed by the enforced introduction of christianity. The builders of the Neolithic monuments designed these with inbuilt astronomical orientations, the observation of key dates in the annual cycle was already practised in the ice age. Much is KNOWN about stone circles, have a look at recent research?
We've spent years wondering how they managed to drag those stones all that way right,,,well, could it be possible that some of the trenchwork found is actually remnants of an old canal network used to float them in??
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11:57 Isn’t it more likely that Stonehenge was connected to the winter, not summer solstice?
Yep.
Vatican inversion my mate😜
Jon. To both, it works both ways!
Most likely. As a celebration to the coming summer, good for farming and such.
not so fun dancing around the stones in your pants in winter
Very interesting and thought-provoking.
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Its not at stonehenge, its around durrington walls a few miles upstream on the avon.
That whole area is now known to be on a huge sacred landscape. I was there in the summer of 1967 before much of it had been discovered.
Just occurred to me that while we think of this being done by a people, they must have had ingenuous individuals with an intellectual hierarchy and transfer of knowledge.
Looks like they found the ancient Particle accelerator and landing strip...
Yep, beam me up, Scotty!!!!
Aliens! No other explination
Wow
@@iBlagg8 Giants did exist.
Ppl forget that.
The map shows it took over 5,000 years for Anatolians, their descendants or their culture to even reach Northern France yet the video gives the impression they just turned up one day in Britain and started building henges.
No footage from this shafts ? That's why I came here in the first place ...
This contradicts a lot of what others have said.
The video said that they were discovered by radar...that doesn’t require much actual digging to learn about the structure
They were just discovered somewhat recently, I don't think anybody has dug into them yet. Unfortunately with covid still going on, it's probably not a priority. I'm so excited to see what's in them
yet another fantastic video, great job mate.
Thank you for your videos, I enjoy them so much! I have learned much from you.
I can't help but look at the aerial views of the sites (highlighted in red and white colors) and think about the Large Hadron Collider. Given the piezoelectric effects existence, could those people living in 4000 - 3000BC have developed some primitive form of accelerator and, given one of the theories of what the LHC can accomplish is the opening of door ways to other dimensions, could this have been a source for the mythology surrounding Stonehenge's use as some form of "Star Gate" for space of inter-dimensional travel?
Wish I could see these people face to face and talk to them. Wonder what language they spoke, what they looked like, what they thought.
It has been shown by DNA analysis that the "wave" of farmers displacing hunter-gatherers is not accurate. What traveled was the idea of farming, not the people. See Bryan Sykes's work on this.
It proved brits are on average 18% middle eastern.
@@_robustus_ any white person with dark hair or eyes has some middle eastern in them. that is where the trait comes from
Just a thought, could they have moved the stones only in the winter, over ice and snow? Sleds were used then, and it would have freed up time for crops n summer. Just a thought.
Does this new monument affect Stonehenge? I see the circle misses it, but it puts a different layout to the landscape. I know the Stonehenge avenue is laid out, but I always thought it is set funny in the landscape. Perhaps this newly discovered monument may go a ways to explaining that.
when you show "the entire stonehenge map" at 49 seconds, it looks like a giant star/constellation map........................................just sayin...lol...........................................many love, much props
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The most positive thing I can say about this video is the the word *_"maybe"_* is used a lot.
No one can know for sure what was going on and what people were thinking in prehistoric times. I suggest for each and everyone to consider the facts only and think for them selves about why and how. The more facts you gather from various locations *_and sources,_* the closer to reality you're likely to get, and remember that any explanation given is just someones interpretation of the evidence at hand
Timing is impeccable.... know who built these structures!
So back in the day we used to go on school trips to Stone Henge, play on them and eat our pack lunches of them. Two years ago I went back to the UK with my wife and guess what? We had to stand behind a perimeter fence. I wish she had an opportunity to get closer to them.
Could the outer ring poles had been used to help align the large stones with the stars?
5:24 looks like star constellations to me, albeit might of been seen, interpreted and named differently to them but none the less they are there. On left under the large "The Cursus" you can clearly see the little dipper.
As above so below a common theme in ancient monoliths e.g. pyramids of giza
Ok, is the more or less accepted timeline of the different waves of people who invaded/settled in Britain and other Western European lands (mainly what's now Spain & France ), thus:
The original Mesolithic Hunter/gatherers (who are themselves a mixture of Neanderthals & Homo sapiens from Africa (hence the striking combo of blue eyes from Neanderthals & dark skin from Homo sapiens)).
Next is the early farmers from the Middle East/southern Anatolia - who seemed to have brought not only farming but their megalithic construction/culture to Britain/Spain, France etc.
Finally, the Bell Beaker Culture, which apparently was not only Indo-European but specifically Proto-Celtic. Most of these guys came to the British Isles via the Iberian peninsula but some also from Central Europe/the Alps region.
The interesting thing also is that the Lusitanians from ancient Spain are thought to be (by language according to the sparse inscriptions that have been found) a very ancient Indo-European peoples that spoke a type of Proto-Celtic language.
Fascinating stuff, thanks for the vid.
PS- I know that not all this is fully accepted as fact by all anthropologists/archaeologists, if anyone has more updated info lmk
Not just Lusitania, Galicia (north of Portugal but part of Spain) origins supposedly derived from a Celtic culture. The name PortuCale/Portugal may also have had Gaelic origin, due to the _Cale_ part.
Freddy Silva researched this for years and wrote interesting connections about this in his Templars book.
@@andanssas oh the ancient Iberian peninsula was made up of mostly Celtic tribes, not just Galicians and the proto-Celtic Lusitanians. The exceptions were the Iberians themselves along the Mediterranean shore of Spain and of course the mysterious Vascos (Basques). Then you also had the older Tartessian culture on southern Atlantic shore of the Iberian peninsula. Apparently there's no consensus among historians as to the origins of the Tartessians. Pretty much all the rest of Iberia was Celtic or proto-Celtic. And that includes the Celtiberians.
The problem with archaeology is that it’s being overrun by people who have a preconception that only their opinion counts & that to question that opinion is in some way verging (in their opinion) on being a racist .
@@davidalton8634 Agreed. There are some people who like claiming that ancient history can only be viewed along their extremist left wing "woke" narrative and anyone who doesn't follow their narrative is of course automatically a racist LOL...there's a few channels on YT that seem like they're run by left wing trolls just looking to argue, strange.
I just heard something about this recent find coincidentally..... Thanks for explaining it very well.......
Why you think it is a coincidence?
I got to visit Stonehenge once and I have to say, no other structure has ever given me such a palpable feeling of sacred space. And I don't even believe in anything in particular. It just feels like the memory of everything that ever happened there seeped into the soil, so that even the grass somehow understands the magnitude of where it is.
Hello Pete:
Perhaps these were mining pits for copper, aligned in a manner in keeping with contemporary superstitions about where the mineral could be found. ?
It amazes me! Just the sheer scale of these projects. All done by brute force. Manual labour with primitive stone tools.I expect there were a lot of injuries and casualties along the way. I have to wonder if there has been any evidence of these injuries found in skeletons?
Hi there Pete great stuff once again! If you could i'm left wondering about two things:
1- Were these shafts like actual wooden or stone posts? if so, do you think the stones were just removed? or were these just holes of cylindrical shape to start with?
2- Why do you think these animals predate those who buried them by generations?
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I believe they are inverted silo's for grain, just a hunch. Stonehenge was probably a commune, a palisade for protection.
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It was a place of worship and it was a holly site dedicated to the stars.
Very good show. Thank you.
So even after a year or so after first watching this. I think that this needs said. Excellent documentary presentation btw. So after first hearing the news of the 1901, 1919 and 1958 rebuilds of the Stonehenge site for “apparent excavation” were altered and repositioned over the top of back filled concrete. Which ended up filling many of these shafts mentioned here. That’s the “modern development” - just shows what we are told and what we are not. I have the same views on the sphynx excavations. I’ll link the aforementioned vids below
1919 rebuild (incorrectly labelled) th-cam.com/video/HlRsgG2yoZw/w-d-xo.html
A closer look at the rebuild
th-cam.com/video/IzTTaGfkY6s/w-d-xo.html
There were more “development plans” for a tunnel leading right through the site that’s now been cancelled again because of public outcry but I think it was all another reuse for potentially another scavenger hunt of the site - but it worked in their favour anyway because if you search for Stonehenge tunnels now all you get is a sea of results about news on the motorway they were wanting to plan instead of videos like this exposing what is so much closer to the truth than we have previously been told
guess what, there is an absolutely stunning amazing and devastating amount of ancient archaeology which precedes in a biblical prescience,
yes, the more devout the godbox/godboxes are, the more they cannot handle actual realities, and the BS they spout to exonerate themselves of mob-rule effects upon others; and they wish to ignore, remove & hide or burn & destroy which afflicts their indoctrinated mindset.
Great video but couldn't watch to the end because there were too many adverts.
So you enjoyed a piece of free content and then complain because the creator attempted to recoup some of his lost time and energy? Fascinating. Curiously, do you want videos like this to exist?
Do this: scroll all the way to the end, let it play out and then replay... there, watch again with no ads...
Whereas Salisbury Plain certainly is impressive, my opinion is that the Orkney Islands is the most impressive site in Britain.
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Well now I feel I should go dig something up .thanks great story
Any chance those holes could be for water storage?
Thanks ,so interesting there’s so much more and I think there is even bigger things to discover definitely I think this is only just the ,
Tip of the things that is already known to date .
Thank you for covering this amazing historical moment with us all and please keep up all your heard work as there’s so much out here for us to learn about past centuries that we really have no idea about as three always something different turning up as times go on and there’s been so much hidden history that only over these last few year’s that more facts have proven that most historians believe everything that we think we new is actually very different to what actually happened ,with all the technology today things are beginning to be unveiled .
The small stones are old but the big ones are new. The great pyramid of Gissa is in fact several centuries older than the big stones in stonehenge.
For something really old and remarkable see "Göbeklitepe"
Thank you for this upload, excellent as always. I wonder what the late great Aubrey Burl would make of this new discovery?
Fascinating, thank you for sharing.
Oh for a time machine! What an amazing place
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I knew about that site at Durrington Walls years ago. I used to live at Larkhill in army housing.
You show the carpark postholes at Stonehenge, but you omit to say these holes are radiocarbon dated, one giving a corrected date for c 8.100 BC. Enormous wooden posts of a lunar observatory stood there, long before the stones were brought to Stonehenge. The importance of the latitude was already recognised in the Mesolithic.
I wonder if there is a connection between the farming culture entering Western Europe from Anatolia and the people that built complexes like Gobekli Tepe a few millennia earlier.
that would be my guess. i think that Early farmers may have had very strong central governments and were ruled by priest class who organized society in a highly centralized manner. its possible just having the ability to mass society is intoxicating to people developing out of hunter gatherer life style.
I wonder if Stone Hendge marks the first spot where Neo-lithic farmers colonized britian and that is why it is such an important spot? was it a capitol?
Of course they were laid out by the stars... in the Gudea Cylinders from 2500BC Gudea is told to build Ningirsu's temple in accordance with the holy stars above... so there is proof that they knew what they were doing even back then
Cool video. Very interesting.
I live with in Milton Keynes and a lot of roads , houses or offices share names from Salisbury and the surrounding areas. When I first visited Salisbury I had a feeling of “coming home” . I was wondering is there a link between Milton Keynes and Salisbury?
You gotta take a drink every time he says "Perhaps". :-)
Great video, thanks
Following the subsidence and fall of Atlantis, the survivors arrived here from the Antarctic. They needed to know if further comets were due. Stonehenge was the foundation for the observatory Time 10000bc.
Benches. Etc. for giants and their gatherings. They stepped up on small interior rocks. Their feet were off the ground sitting down. Author. Haunts of san jose. And 66 6
Too many ads, Pete. They really subtract from enjoyment of your content, and interrupt the continuity of your discourse. A couple at the beginning is fine.
Slow pace and repetative video with lots of advertisement.
The main content in itself is good, but as said...
No ads when I watched.
Here's how you watch without ads... scroll to the end, let it play out and the replay the video... there, watch with no ads...
Don't use the you tube app. I use a browser and no ads. Amazing how that free app makes a fortune for you tube.
2:39 What do you mean by "These people?"
Mesolithics ones
Was there in 2012 so interested in history. Pity they could not record in those days.
Is the pottery evidence of new comers or evidence of trade? We now trade was well developed across Europe. Making assertion about the Amesbury Archer being one of the first metallurgists in Europe, is based on a sample too small to make such claims. It may be the earliest we know of, but that does not mean he was the first or one of the first. I think it would be nice to give credit to the work of Mike _ Parker Pearson, for his great work at these monuments.
He would have been there in one of the first decades or ~century of metallurgy. Pretty close.
I'm not sure but I am under the impression that there are rather a lot of Beaker artifacts, suggesting more than just trade.
Have they identified the source of the limestone and earth used to construct silbury Hill. Big hole somewhere?
Near Marlborough
This new strain of iconoclasm will come for Stonehenge soon. Laugh and dismiss it all you want, but remember some people warned you about it.
So fascinating thank you
Stonehenge was a ritual trade centre. A market and church. A capital 'city'.
i'm excited.thank you.