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Post by redraven on May 27, 2008 18:36:00 GMT -1
For anyone out there with with satellite TV, National Geographic are showing the latest theories about this on Sunday 1/06/08 at 8 pm.
RR
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Post by Blackbird on May 29, 2008 9:19:33 GMT -1
I've seen the trailer... let's just say my hopes aren't high  Still, it might be OK, and if not, it's always fun to spend an hour shouting at the telly ;D |
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Post by redraven on May 29, 2008 12:07:28 GMT -1
I suspect NG are just trying to get a program in before the BBC's Timewatch program with the results of the latest official archeological dig. A television gazump, so to speak!  RR |
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Post by redraven on May 29, 2008 13:23:33 GMT -1
I've just read in one of the listings magazine that " this film reveals the discoveries made by archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson, who believes the monument was built to house spirits of the dead and was a focal point for national festivals."
Mike Parker Pearson, why does that bloke remind me of Jo Brand?
RR
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Post by Tegernacus on May 29, 2008 13:44:07 GMT -1
is this a repeat? I've seen must be a dozen Stonehenge things on Natgeo/Discovery lately. Did you see the one where they rebuilt the stones using polystyrene? I quite enjoyed that, but that's about my level of TV.
Saying that, If its Mike then you're sure to get an indepth thing. I'm dreading that Timewatch one with that "health-spa" guy. No offence to him, but digging a trench in Priscelli and digging one at Stonehenge doesn't make you an authority on either. Not that Mike is, but if he doesn't know, then no-one knows.
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Post by redraven on May 29, 2008 15:25:56 GMT -1
They are billing it as new, however, I don't know if it is genuinely new or just new to the channel, sometimes things are shown on other channels first, I suspect that it is the former rather than the latter. RR |
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Post by Tegernacus on May 30, 2008 6:04:36 GMT -1
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Post by Midori on May 30, 2008 14:06:56 GMT -1
There is a writeup on Stonehenge in the National Geographic magazine this month, as well. Not too bad, it is based on Mike Parker Pearson's digs in and around the Stonehenge World Heritage Site, including Durrington Walls and Woodhenge.
It's not bad, but for other info on the digs themselves look up The Riverside Project in Sheffield Univerity's website.
Cheers, midori
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Post by Tegernacus on Jun 1, 2008 19:29:24 GMT -1
I liked the docu, finally someone taking the whole thing out of new-ageness and putting it back into anthropology. To understand the ancient religion, you have to remove yourself totally from modern ways of thinking.
No new revelations, like, but I like the way it was done. The reconstructions were quite accurate, got your head into the era quite well.
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Post by redraven on Jun 2, 2008 12:25:08 GMT -1
Yes, I thought it was done quite well and the reconstructions were very well done, I feared a dry academic documentary but the scenes were well thought out and were appropriate to what was being proposed. A good all round effort I thought.
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Post by Blackbird on Jun 2, 2008 15:48:27 GMT -1
I managed to miss it - or rather, I got outvoted on what was watched, so had to sit through Road Wars instead I remember the polystyrene stonehenge! They auctioned it on Ebay afterwards, but I've no idea where it ended up... |
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Post by Tegernacus on Jun 2, 2008 16:57:34 GMT -1
it was repeated today, twice. It will probably be on again. Worth a watch
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Post by redraven on Jun 2, 2009 18:08:26 GMT -1
I'm reviving this thread as I watched Time team last night put an end to all the speculation! Did anyone else see it?
RR
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Post by littleraven on Jun 2, 2009 18:33:18 GMT -1
I'm reviving this thread as I watched Time team last night put an end to all the speculation! Did anyone else see it? RR Saw bits of it, seemed quite interesting tbh. What did intrigue me was the neolithic road. Roads in Britain before the Romans? Heresy! |
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Post by redraven on Jun 2, 2009 18:49:13 GMT -1
Saw bits of it, seemed quite interesting tbh. What did intrigue me was the neolithic road. Roads in Britain before the Romans? Heresy! The really interesting piece, IMHO, was saved till the last when a channel of what turned out to be natural patterns of water ditches, were shown to lead to the entrance of Stonehenge. They were thought to be formed after the ice age by the melting water flowing through the chalk substructure, but they actually alligned with the midsummer and midwinter solstices, suggesting a reason why Stonehenge was built in that particular location. Make of that what you will! RR |
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Post by arth_frown on Jun 2, 2009 19:03:28 GMT -1
Saw bits of it, seemed quite interesting tbh. What did intrigue me was the neolithic road. Roads in Britain before the Romans? Heresy! The really interesting piece, IMHO, was saved till the last when a channel of what turned out to be natural patterns of water ditches, were shown to lead to the entrance of Stonehenge. They were thought to be formed after the ice age by the melting water flowing through the chalk substructure, but they actually alligned with the midsummer and midwinter solstices, suggesting a reason why Stonehenge was built in that particular location. Make of that what you will! RR It wouldn't suprise me in the least if that was the case. The only problem I see is it would of been covered in grass, so how would they of seen it? |
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Post by redraven on Jun 2, 2009 19:20:32 GMT -1
It wouldn't suprise me in the least if that was the case. The only problem I see is it would of been covered in grass, so how would they of seen it? The channels, when excavated, were actually quite pronounced and I think they would have been quite easy to spot. Bearing in mind that the start of construction of Stonehenge has been dated to around 3,500 years ago, the lie of the land would probably have been higher than it is today (glacial rebound etc) and the recent agricultural activity (say from the last 1000 years) probably contributed to the covering of the channels, so whereas you can't see them today, you probably could then. They were also contained within two banks running the length of the channels, funneling the melt water through the landscape in varying degrees. The banks no longer exist but would have been visible then, a natural sightglass in the landscape at the solstices. The sight of the sun rising from the water present in the ditches at the midsummer and midwinter solstices would have been a powerful sight, and we all know the association of the dead and water! RR |
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Post by Tegernacus on Jun 2, 2009 20:08:07 GMT -1
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