I took my son here today (he is 8 years old), which was around the same age when I last went to Avebury Stone Circle, Silbury Hill and West Kennet Long Barrow on a primary school trip. It was a place that captured me 3 decades ago, sparked my love of ancient history and my son loved it as much as did.
Woww, no words.. How utterly amazing is this!? Congratulations on your education, experience, taking your opportunities up and running with them! Thank you Neil!! So admirable! ...
This series is the best thing I’ve watched and listened to for years,I’m enthralled by each episode and am learning so much,thank you very much for publishing them,your a gentleman👍
What I like most about this podcast is that it is so thought-provoking without becoming esoteric. It's informative, well filmed and exactly what (teaching) history should be like. If only schools were more like this...
Wiltshire is a magical place,my spiritual home. Stonehenge,Avebury,West Kennet,Silbury Hill,Durrington Walls (wood henge) etc,all part of our long forgotten spiritual history which has been brushed under the carpet and suppressed by other mainstream religions. Another great video Neil,thank you 🙏
I lived for a year close it all these Wiltshire monuments. My wife for much longer. We’ve always loved having them on our doorstep back in the early 1980s. Really enjoyable episode, Neil. Thank you! Mike & Joanna xx
I am watching in my present day Oct 20th 2023, hence I have been following for close to a year, so I started at later episodes. Thank you Neil and Paul
I have visited Avebury and your podcast has managed to add significantly to what I was able to understand from my own interpretation, the whole landscape is awe inspiring.
Another great episode, Neil. The children's TV series you were thinking of, inspired by these stones, was called "Children of the Stones". It was a TV mini-series from 1977, comprising seven episodes. I only became aware of this TV series a couple of years ago thanks to a fellow Scotsman of yours, Millennial Woes.
I see one hell of a defensive structure that can be utilized by the farmers in the entire region to gather at and celebrate during the good safe times then fall back upon during the bad times to protect themselves and each other. That earthen barrier would make it hard to approach and over run exposed to determined men who have the shelter of those stones to duck behind and grab another spear stacked on it with further stones to fall back to if needed on the inside where the most vulnerable would be placed. Magnificent once again Sir Oliver.
Yes, truth is no one knows so it could well be the case, it would also protect them from wolves and bears and other predators of the time, they would come over the spoil pile and have a hell of a drop into the ditch, 40-50ft perhaps. The mystery of it has eaten away at my mind periodically for many years.
@@iknowyoureright8564 I see these structures from a 'Survival First' viewpoint when looking at them. Call me jaded but I don't think all that time and effort, which equates to calories, was burned for just a calendar. One highly agitated Aurox can make a mockery of a families attempt to live a peaceful and sedentary existence.
One of the best gems in listening to Neil's talks is the lingo, such as the Ancient Counting method, he was taught before the way we count today was instituted. I can't get enough of your slang phrases. "Get Us"! Yes, we are the humans, the people of the planet unlike the Zombie Death Mongers dominating, free of mandates & threats, slandering others as they roam freely YET time will come to where their scams turn over on top of their Maggot riddled sewer rat minds. Big LOVE to Neil & videographer and all of us Followers seeking insight, historical facts that cause deep awes & wonder. Do you know that Watch, wait & wonder is the basis of establishing attachment with babies/children and all healthy human interpersonal relations.
I remember going to the Orkney Islands many years ago .The ring of Brodgar,near Stromness,is a magical place ,with its wild sky’s and bustling winds .Scara Brae and Kirkwall Cathedral,with its ominous Standard Flags ,suspended from the stone walls .These places have never left me ,I often remember and think about them.I have lived in Sydney Australia for many years now ,but of all my travels ,The Orkney Islands were a standout for me !
Never interested in history at school, but Neil you are captivating in your approach to it. In my sixties now and feeling the need to get out and see these places as my current travels were inspired by your early series and wanting to see more of the coast for myself. Thank you.
I love my area , I only live 6 miles away from Avebury close to Oldbury Castle . My family Has been here from Saxon time and maybe before . I think I'm so luck living in such a ancient landscape . I hope you will all come and visit us on summer solstice . 🙏
The idea of a ritualised community project requiring every man, woman and child from far and wide to come to pledge their time and labour at specific times of the year is very compelling.
Thanks neil💙💙 I was never interested in history at school . In fact I hated school. Listening to you talking about history and extraordinary places on planet earth made me realise I am interested in history when the person talking about it has a passion for the subject like you have in abundance!!!💓💓❤❤🙏🙏
Stones might have represented families or clans & within the circle of stones they would all meet for rituals & celebrations. Its fascinating imagining what could have happened there!
you truly are both a remarkable and marvellous man neil. the work you do from the working of your mind is compelling and imperative. thanking you is insufficient.. but all l can do. william. ireland.
So very interesting, informative, and enjoyable, thank you Neil. I'[m very much looking forward to the next one, Silbury hill, that place enchants me for some reason.
I recently visited Avebury with my friend, on the way back from Glastonbury, a truly magical space, a very powerful presence of history, excellent podcast
I went there, and to Silbury, in the 1980s and it's remained indelibly in my mind. I wonder if the graffiti someone had written there at the entrance is still there It read": "Romans watch out, the Celts are Back"
Neil what you say about how the goal was to never complete but to keep building makes me think these people were the ancestors of today's road builders/repairers/council always building always taking away and putting back but never completing. Just a funny little 4am thought
Great episode Neil -- really ! I happen to live quite near AVEBURY and I have experienced myself that if you go there and embrace these " boulder s " it will give you great sense of s t r e n g h ts ; Thank you Neil for being here with us Marie ( from Cenal Europe ). t
I had to have a chuckle when you spoke about the oddities that occur with the construction ideas of the Avebury stones. I immediately thought about William the Conqueror. It would be interesting to wrap your head around the Norman idea of religion around the time of this man. He famously committed genocide in an area and then to ask forgiveness from the people and his idea of God he would commission a marvelous religious building like a nunnery or a cathedral. Very strange sort of ideology. If the man stood before us we could maybe sum up his ammo and personality traits but now we can only guess. Knowing that his throne was a very shaky bit of furniture, maybe it is possible that not unlike Elizabeth I and Mary he felt he had to find a way to stamp his authority and at the same time justify his actions by appealing to the strong religious beliefs of the people at the time. Yip it makes you wonder about these people's mindsets even more and the politics involved. The priesthood of ancient Egypt was as extremely powerful as the Papacy throughout the Christian era. Is it possible that the same sort of establishment existed in Britain's polytheistic society when these great monuments were being built and used? Although not nearly as audacious and sophisticated as the Egyptian Priests tombs I have seen footage of archaeological digs where burial sites were arranged in a circle and the central grave is believed to be of a significant person. Maybe this grave is that of an elder or leader, but is it possible that it could be the grave of a spiritual leader such as a priest? Sigh. History repeats itself.
Hey Neil. First off I think your mind is wonderful, I absolutely love listening to your thought processes. I live in Aberdeenshire and have only just discovered about the recumbent stone circles. I’m fascinated and hooked. So much history has been deleted here. Would you consider a podcast dedicated to Aberdeenshire before Caledonia?
I love to see these amazing photos of these places. Wonderful photography. I enlarge them to my big screen so that I can immerse myself into the landscape as you tell the stories. The only criticism is that the portrait in the corner distracts from the full effect of these wonderful photos. Please consider letting these images stand on their own...
We know (yes, know) now that these places - Avebury, Stonehenge etc, actually were factories for enhancement of crop seeds on an industrial scale. The geology where ALL of them were built has a heightening effect on the earth’s magnetic field, and with magnetic stones and circular ditches (called ‘henges’) added the effect was far greater. Once fertiliser and crop rotation was discovered (Bronze Age) these places were abandoned. Farmers now could stay at home instead of travelling the miles overland (following the alignments leading them in) to have their seeds ‘hardened’, as they call it, inside the stone factories. Therefore, they were not forts, villages, or temples. They were, in fact, the foundation for modern civilisation.
there are so many stone circles. stonehenge and avebury are connected by procesional routes. can all the known circles be connected? fascinating. hard to believe they are independent of each other
This element of an open-ended or multigenerational project strikes me as hopeful, a statement about persistence and continuity of humanity amidst the certainty of individual and generational death. Even in terms of the futility of monuments like Ozymandius' broken empty boasting, the idea of a living monument rises above the short-lived individual interest and the banal legacies of dead kings.
If it's a lot of conjecture, maybe the getting together of digging the ditch was about punishment &/or sacrifice. Maybe it was about market containment, one or two roads in/out. Celebration too.
If you look on Streetview, the biker on his BMW has dropped his glove. His concentration lapsed for a while, effected by the vibrations within the circle :-)
My instincts tell me these places and those involved , all worked from certain ingrained memories, beliefs and what I call laten knowledge of the natural world . The accumulation of all who went before throughout human evolution. Things we no longer recognize for what they really are , feelings , intuitions , those nagging tugs on our imaginations that we ignore or discount as fantasy . May be based in a reality we've lost through time and our becoming CIVILIZED ...
I believe that the makers saw it from above through shamanic visionquest. Inspiration can be a magical thing. We are programmed to think and perceive scienticically and in a linear way these days. So our way to see above is through mechanical flight and photography.
It seems like a defensible position. A huge ‘moat’ around it. The rocks as cover from projectiles. Is there just the one path in? Or just a couple? A bottleneck?
We are here. They are still here in a state of constant here, if that makes sense. That's part of why they were constructed. They must have had time on their hands, good crop production and lots of domestic help to pull off these monuments. Imagine the slave labor it took and the support crew, which was the backbone of the project. We don't do things communely like that anymore. It was prime time for cooperation and they wanted to immortalize that. We can't and or won't do that today. Today we are individuals and have lost our sense of community.
Wish that picture of Neil wasn't up in the right hand corner of these videos, as it detracts from the visual experience of what is being shown landscape wise in the video.
If anyone talks to Neil Olsen can you tell him if he using the Google maps world . If you draw a line to America from stone henge to new Hampshire we have a stone henge and in the other direction from UK stone henge to the other opposite way there's another one all in line with each other isn't that amazing..
Many ancient monolithic sites seem to coincide with other across the globe. Same longtitudes for instance. It seems to me that ancient man was far more global than we give him credit for.
The youtube channel called The prehistory Guys has covered your question - the answer is yes it is real - but you'd have to watch their full explanation for the details.
great britain still only came into existence in 1707, a definition of ish is to finish and brit is hebrew for contract! Stones in europe where homes with four walls and roof, in some places with larger stones.
Wrong. Great Britain is a geographical area - the largest island of the British Isles and has existed since about 6500BC when sea levels rose caused by the end of the last ice age. 1707 is the date of the Treaty of Union forming the Kingdom of Great Britain. The present United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland came into being in 1927. The name "Britain" is derived from the Brythonic word "Pritani" and has nothing to do with Hebrew. There are many similar sounding words in many languages.
No a treaty was signed then. There has been peoples and culture here for thousands of years. I'm sure the name of countries today are different from their names in ancient times.
I have always accepted your conclusions, but it didn't resonate with me this time. There are so many other possibilities that you didn't explore. Climatological - periods of drought, flooding cold, heat would have lead to famine and driven them to seek "greener pastures". Those elements would also have driven game from the area. Invaders, who had no connection with, or use for, the site. To name but two. I also cannot accept that there was no reason other than, essentially, recreation. Many ancient works took generations, but there was always a purpose and goal.
Merlin granet ring stone round henge aye rises salstices plus moons path sires eye a feasting torr picks cove 100T aye a wee pebbles to a cyclops. Hop scotch eye skipping stones. Eys quatare mass ailsbery pailiolithic true pagons by knights eye sparks flys grinding teath cyclops eye englands godzilla you know andy cap. Eye it was A festival of stories. Then return home to tell the villagers crofters tue.
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I took my son here today (he is 8 years old), which was around the same age when I last went to Avebury Stone Circle, Silbury Hill and West Kennet Long Barrow on a primary school trip.
It was a place that captured me 3 decades ago, sparked my love of ancient history and my son loved it as much as did.
Woww, no words.. How utterly amazing is this!?
Congratulations on your education, experience, taking your opportunities up and running with them!
Thank you Neil!!
So admirable! ...
I pounce on these as soon as I get notice they are posted.. Absolutely love it
Me too.best thing on youtube.
@@defenderoftherealm410 Niel Oliver, is a brilliant orator- respect 🙏
I save them for the evening.
Neil for PM! Wonderful stuff. God bless and thank you!
This series is the best thing I’ve watched and listened to for years,I’m enthralled by each episode and am learning so much,thank you very much for publishing them,your a gentleman👍
What I like most about this podcast is that it is so thought-provoking without becoming esoteric. It's informative, well filmed and exactly what (teaching) history should be like. If only schools were more like this...
Neil, these podcasts should be broadcast on National TV, absolutely brilliant viewing thank you
Wiltshire is a magical place,my spiritual home. Stonehenge,Avebury,West Kennet,Silbury Hill,Durrington Walls (wood henge) etc,all part of our long forgotten spiritual history which has been brushed under the carpet and suppressed by other mainstream religions.
Another great video Neil,thank you 🙏
Love these videos Neil - thank you so much!
I lived for a year close it all these Wiltshire monuments. My wife for much longer. We’ve always loved having them on our doorstep back in the early 1980s. Really enjoyable episode, Neil. Thank you!
Mike & Joanna xx
Did you ever sample the delicious vegetarian cuisine at “Stones” cafe?
Fantastic insight Neil...❤️❤️
I am watching in my present day Oct 20th 2023, hence I have been following for close to a year, so I started at later episodes. Thank you Neil and Paul
I have visited Avebury and your podcast has managed to add significantly to what I was able to understand from my own interpretation, the whole landscape is awe inspiring.
Another great episode, Neil. The children's TV series you were thinking of, inspired by these stones, was called "Children of the Stones". It was a TV mini-series from 1977, comprising seven episodes. I only became aware of this TV series a couple of years ago thanks to a fellow Scotsman of yours, Millennial Woes.
I would love to hear Woesie and Mr. Oliver in conversation. Next Milleniyule perhaps.
I saw the original, and now have it on DVD...my parents and I stayed at the pub overnight when I was young...
th-cam.com/video/SwT0wLnT7Rc/w-d-xo.html
its on youtube. thanks for telling the name, I could remember it but not the name
Thanks for the info......have found this series on TH-cam and will be watching it now as a result.
Absolutely brilliant, bringing ancestors to life...
I see one hell of a defensive structure that can be utilized by the farmers in the entire region to gather at and celebrate during the good safe times then fall back upon during the bad times to protect themselves and each other.
That earthen barrier would make it hard to approach and over run exposed to determined men who have the shelter of those stones to duck behind and grab another spear stacked on it with further stones to fall back to if needed on the inside where the most vulnerable would be placed.
Magnificent once again Sir Oliver.
Yes, truth is no one knows so it could well be the case, it would also protect them from wolves and bears and other predators of the time, they would come over the spoil pile and have a hell of a drop into the ditch, 40-50ft perhaps. The mystery of it has eaten away at my mind periodically for many years.
@@iknowyoureright8564 I see these structures from a 'Survival First' viewpoint when looking at them.
Call me jaded but I don't think all that time and effort, which equates to calories, was burned for just a calendar. One highly agitated Aurox can make a mockery of a families attempt to live a peaceful and sedentary existence.
One of the best gems in listening to Neil's talks is the lingo, such as the Ancient Counting method, he was taught before the way we count today was instituted.
I can't get enough of your slang phrases. "Get Us"!
Yes, we are the humans, the people of the planet unlike the Zombie Death Mongers dominating, free of mandates & threats, slandering others as they roam freely YET time will come to where their scams turn over on top of their Maggot riddled sewer rat minds. Big LOVE to Neil & videographer and all of us Followers seeking insight, historical facts that cause deep awes & wonder.
Do you know that Watch, wait & wonder is the basis of establishing attachment with babies/children and all healthy human interpersonal relations.
I remember going to the Orkney Islands many years ago .The ring of Brodgar,near Stromness,is a magical place ,with its wild sky’s and bustling winds .Scara Brae and Kirkwall Cathedral,with its ominous Standard Flags ,suspended from the stone walls .These places have never left me ,I often remember and think about them.I have lived in Sydney Australia for many years now ,but of all my travels ,The Orkney Islands were a standout for me !
Thanks Neil.
Lovely relaxing way to learn our history. Thanks.
Never interested in history at school, but Neil you are captivating in your approach to it. In my sixties now and feeling the need to get out and see these places as my current travels were inspired by your early series and wanting to see more of the coast for myself. Thank you.
Absolutely fascinating!
Man is truly brilliant and always has been, we are know smarter today. The people must have believed in the future. Thank you
Bugger moving all that stone by hand 😳
The destruction of the stones breaks my heart.
I love my area , I only live 6 miles away from Avebury close to Oldbury Castle . My family Has been here from Saxon time and maybe before . I think I'm so luck living in such a ancient landscape . I hope you will all come and visit us on summer solstice . 🙏
The idea of a ritualised community project requiring every man, woman and child from far and wide to come to pledge their time and labour at specific times of the year is very compelling.
Thank you Neil, another great listen
Thanks neil💙💙 I was never interested in history at school . In fact I hated school. Listening to you talking about history and extraordinary places on planet earth made me realise I am interested in history when the person talking about it has a passion for the subject like you have in abundance!!!💓💓❤❤🙏🙏
I listened to this originally on iPlayer so lovely to listen again with imagery. Thank you
Stones might have represented families or clans & within the circle of stones they would all meet for rituals & celebrations. Its fascinating imagining what could have happened there!
you truly are both a remarkable and marvellous man neil. the work you do from the working of your mind is compelling and imperative. thanking you is insufficient.. but all l can do. william. ireland.
So very interesting, informative, and enjoyable, thank you Neil. I'[m very much looking forward to the next one, Silbury hill, that place enchants me for some reason.
Really. Interesting . History with mystery. I like the way that Neil Doesnt try to fill in the missing pieces
On our home patch again this week Neil ,I loved your book but it is wonderful to see the videos thank you very much
I recently visited Avebury with my friend, on the way back from Glastonbury, a truly magical space, a very powerful presence of history, excellent podcast
I went there, and to Silbury, in the 1980s and it's remained indelibly in my mind. I wonder if the graffiti someone had written there at the entrance is still there It read": "Romans watch out, the Celts are Back"
@@glenp3985 Next time I go, I'll look out for it..🧐
@@glenp3985 most of us here are now Saxons that bread in with the Celts . Please do visit us on summer solstice 🙏 for mead & hog roast .
It's so amazing Neil, your presence ,it's like I follow your footsteps intol your World, love it. :-)
The TV drama was Children of the Stones. Worth a watch.
Where can one see that?
@@luminair11 DVD?
Love and respect the way you think.
Neil what you say about how the goal was to never complete but to keep building makes me think these people were the ancestors of today's road builders/repairers/council always building always taking away and putting back but never completing. Just a funny little 4am thought
I once took a picture of a ceremonial stone near me at night once and it showed up covered in swirls not visible to the naked eye
Another Pagan masterpiece ❤
Cycled through Avebury many times. Ride back from Southampton to Solihull. A regular lunch stop.
Great episode Neil -- really ! I happen to live quite near AVEBURY and I have experienced myself that if you go there and embrace these " boulder s " it will give you great sense of s t r e n g h ts ; Thank you Neil for being here with us
Marie ( from Cenal Europe ). t
I had to have a chuckle when you spoke about the oddities that occur with the construction ideas of the Avebury stones.
I immediately thought about William the Conqueror. It would be interesting to wrap your head around the Norman idea of religion around the time of this man. He famously committed genocide in an area and then to ask forgiveness from the people and his idea of God he would commission a marvelous religious building like a nunnery or a cathedral. Very strange sort of ideology. If the man stood before us we could maybe sum up his ammo and personality traits but now we can only guess.
Knowing that his throne was a very shaky bit of furniture, maybe it is possible that not unlike Elizabeth I and Mary he felt he had to find a way to stamp his authority and at the same time justify his actions by appealing to the strong religious beliefs of the people at the time.
Yip it makes you wonder about these people's mindsets even more and the politics involved. The priesthood of ancient Egypt was as extremely powerful as the Papacy throughout the Christian era. Is it possible that the same sort of establishment existed in Britain's polytheistic society when these great monuments were being built and used?
Although not nearly as audacious and sophisticated as the Egyptian Priests tombs I have seen footage of archaeological digs where burial sites were arranged in a circle and the central grave is believed to be of a significant person. Maybe this grave is that of an elder or leader, but is it possible that it could be the grave of a spiritual leader such as a priest?
Sigh. History repeats itself.
Really enjoyed that. Terry, Australia. Thank you
ever so grateful for taking me away from this ugly world if only for an hour or so!
Hey Neil. First off I think your mind is wonderful, I absolutely love listening to your thought processes. I live in Aberdeenshire and have only just discovered about the recumbent stone circles. I’m fascinated and hooked. So much history has been deleted here. Would you consider a podcast dedicated to Aberdeenshire before Caledonia?
That series you speak about was
The children of the stones 1976 , great series
Why didn't I think that Neil would have a channel? I'm actually pretty grateful to my TH-cam stream.
When we were there in 2007, my husband remarked that the stones were singing to him.
I can believe that!
Am watching this for the 2nd time!
I love to see these amazing photos of these places. Wonderful photography. I enlarge them to my big screen so that I can immerse myself into the landscape as you tell the stories.
The only criticism is that the portrait in the corner distracts from the full effect of these wonderful photos.
Please consider letting these images stand on their own...
I do the same and I agree about that portrait, but in hindsight I'm thinking it may be a form of copyright to protect the video ownership.
@@luminair11 perhaps, then, they could be made smaller and placed at the bottom of the screen...
I have a small project that is an exercise in exercise. I am building a dam. About 15 years in now. Now there is a pond and lots of things live in it.
We know (yes, know) now that these places - Avebury, Stonehenge etc, actually were factories for enhancement of crop seeds on an industrial scale. The geology where ALL of them were built has a heightening effect on the earth’s magnetic field, and with magnetic stones and circular ditches (called ‘henges’) added the effect was far greater. Once fertiliser and crop rotation was discovered (Bronze Age) these places were abandoned. Farmers now could stay at home instead of travelling the miles overland (following the alignments leading them in) to have their seeds ‘hardened’, as they call it, inside the stone factories. Therefore, they were not forts, villages, or temples. They were, in fact, the foundation for modern civilisation.
there are so many stone circles. stonehenge and avebury are connected by procesional routes. can all the known circles be connected? fascinating. hard to believe they are independent of each other
I read "The Source" by James A Michener a long time ago which gives a great hypothesis on how these stones could have come about.
This element of an open-ended or multigenerational project strikes me as hopeful, a statement about persistence and continuity of humanity amidst the certainty of individual and generational death. Even in terms of the futility of monuments like Ozymandius' broken empty boasting, the idea of a living monument rises above the short-lived individual interest and the banal legacies of dead kings.
24:50 The programme was called *Children of the stones*
Really creepy theme music if I recall 🥺
If it's a lot of conjecture, maybe the getting together of digging the ditch was about punishment &/or sacrifice. Maybe it was about market containment, one or two roads in/out. Celebration too.
And then there's me !
A another great site close by where they quarried stone for Avebury is sarsen valley on the road to Marlborough close to Fyfields
If you look on Streetview, the biker on his BMW has dropped his glove. His concentration lapsed for a while, effected by the vibrations within the circle :-)
Now I know why I never finish things. It's in my blood 😂
My instincts tell me these places and those involved , all worked from certain ingrained memories, beliefs and what I call laten knowledge of the natural world . The accumulation of all who went before throughout human evolution. Things we no longer recognize for what they really are , feelings , intuitions , those nagging tugs on our imaginations that we ignore or discount as fantasy . May be based in a reality we've lost through time and our becoming CIVILIZED ...
I believe that the makers saw it from above through shamanic visionquest. Inspiration can be a magical thing. We are programmed to think and perceive scienticically and in a linear way these days. So our way to see above is through mechanical flight and photography.
C.f. The Nazca Lines
I remember that tv series
Neil do you know anything about Tinto hill in south Lanarkshire, I hear it was a burial mound .
Thank you
Is that the Viking burial?
@@Madonnalitta1 no brithonic
How many of today's crappy buildings will be around in three thousand years?
Not many but some will.
The foundations may survive but not much else
@@dragonforks93 this thing should last a few thousand years. Its concrete encased in stainless steel. th-cam.com/video/kCJYaMMBUOk/w-d-xo.html
None made with bricks and mortar. It would take nature just a couple of generations to pull them down.
Neil your programes should be played in the schools to let 0ur children see and learn at least truths of history we know.
i remember the tv series
It seems like a defensible position.
A huge ‘moat’ around it.
The rocks as cover from projectiles.
Is there just the one path in?
Or just a couple?
A bottleneck?
We are here. They are still here in a state of constant here, if that makes sense. That's part of why they were constructed. They must have had time on their hands, good crop production and lots of domestic help to pull off these monuments. Imagine the slave labor it took and the support crew, which was the backbone of the project. We don't do things communely like that anymore. It was prime time for cooperation and they wanted to immortalize that. We can't and or won't do that today. Today we are individuals and have lost our sense of community.
Wish that picture of Neil wasn't up in the right hand corner of these videos, as it detracts from the visual experience of what is being shown landscape wise in the video.
When it was "finished" and they walked away. What else was happening at that time which may have led to it. Ie, wars, plague, etc
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Possibly was built for the worship of the sun. The ditch could be to capture,
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We had a henge on the York side of Leeds. They built the A1M Motorway on it. How's that for destroying history by our local governments!!
If anyone talks to Neil Olsen can you tell him if he using the Google maps world . If you draw a line to America from stone henge to new Hampshire we have a stone henge and in the other direction from UK stone henge to the other opposite way there's another one all in line with each other isn't that amazing..
Many ancient monolithic sites seem to coincide with other across the globe. Same longtitudes for instance. It seems to me that ancient man was far more global than we give him credit for.
Why would they assume farmers did this ? Its like globekli tepe . They were places where they practised astronomy n ritual they r complete.
Wondering if these stone circles could have been places of human sacrifice?
How many times has stone henge been re built by modern man - at least 2 I have heard - so is it still real ?
The youtube channel called The prehistory Guys has covered your question - the answer is yes it is real - but you'd have to watch their full explanation for the details.
why would they allow a road to pass through it?
Because the road is probably 1000 to 1500 years old. That is the date of the Anglo-Saxon village!
Maybe they only did it everytime they were high on mushrooms and never quite got round to completing it.
Maybe thay just did for there gods and how it turned out was the will of the gods.
great britain still only came into existence in 1707, a definition of ish is to finish and brit is hebrew for contract! Stones in europe where homes with four walls and roof, in some places with larger stones.
Finally, someone gets it. Well done.
Wrong. Great Britain is a geographical area - the largest island of the British Isles and has existed since about 6500BC when sea levels rose caused by the end of the last ice age. 1707 is the date of the Treaty of Union forming the Kingdom of Great Britain. The present United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland came into being in 1927. The name "Britain" is derived from the Brythonic word "Pritani" and has nothing to do with Hebrew. There are many similar sounding words in many languages.
No a treaty was signed then. There has been peoples and culture here for thousands of years. I'm sure the name of countries today are different from their names in ancient times.
I have always accepted your conclusions, but it didn't resonate with me this time. There are so many other possibilities that you didn't explore. Climatological - periods of drought, flooding cold, heat would have lead to famine and driven them to seek "greener pastures". Those elements would also have driven game from the area. Invaders, who had no connection with, or use for, the site. To name but two. I also cannot accept that there was no reason other than, essentially, recreation. Many ancient works took generations, but there was always a purpose and goal.
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Ireland 🇮🇪 is not a British Isle/Island and it is not your home or Country.
Do you think all this engineering work could have been done by slaves