Festival of Neolithic Ideas
takes fresh look at how Stonehenge was built
and the lives of neolithic people.
"It is often thought of
as something not of this world,
a magical, mystical place..."
“It’s very easy to think of Stonehenge as something that is outside the history of science or engineering,” she said. “The history of science traditionally starts in the 16th or 17th century. That kind of unmoors Stonehenge.
“The consequence is it can feel like something that is magical and otherworldly. What we’re trying to do with the festival is remind people that the people of Stonehenge were like us.” They were planners, engineers, project managers but also worshippers and travellers who made pilgrimages to the stones and partied there. “Very much like us,” added Bouchard."
A central theme of the festival, the first of its kind, will be a fresh look at how Stonehenge was built. For example, how did they manage to get the lintels so remarkably level? Civil engineers today use lasers but how did ancient people place pairs of hefty stones into deep holes in uneven ground and manage to lower others on to the top with such precision?"
"And how did they manage to make sure the whole temple aligned so perfectly to the sunrises, sunsets, solstices and so on?"
(More importantly?
WHY
did they?)
“This was a
massive undertaking
that required
sophisticated understanding
of the landscape,
of materials,
of the sky
and how to build things,”
said Bouchard.
“I walk through a park
and get lost
but they could
bring a massive stone
hundreds of miles
to the spot
where it needs to be
put in the ground
and it’s exactly
the right height
and everything is lined up.
All that
without paper,
without pencil –
just incredible.”
Yeah...exactly...
"It is often thought of
as something not of this world,
a magical, mystical place..."
Genesis 6:1-4
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
People can laugh all they want about my beliefs
on all the ancient mysteries on this earth.
I choose to laugh at the concept of a multiverse.
One of us has a lot more scientific evidence than the other.
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