Stonehenge view.
The following post will be about of one of the wonders of the World, Stonehenge. A fabulous and famous prehistoric monument placed in southern England. This ancient monument is composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones. But, this is not only a megalithic ruin, it also has lot of secrets related with its origins and there are many speculations about whom built it.
First of all, it is important to know that this post it´s going to refer about the last findings about Stonehenge based on the video from the BBC that we watched in our ‘Culture and Civilization’ class, and also from some articles I read related with this new archaeologists finding.
Several experts and scientist are into the researches of why these huge stones were placed in a circle. On the one hand, historically, Stonehenge has generated so much speculation and wild theories as the standing stones of Stonehenge. Some people tend to believed that Stonehenge was built of druid sacrifice, a temple in which horrid acts and blood ceremonies were conducted. On the other hand, some theories say that this monument it is an astronomical observatory or maybe it might have been a place for healing.
However, one last finding made by a team of some British archeologists says that thousands of years ago Stonehenge was regarded not as a place of sacrament for the dead, but as a temple with unique healing powers. It is important to mention that this new theory is looking closely at the presence of some bluestones. Through some excavations they discovered that these bluestones were once viewed as therapeutic. Another good support of their theory is the fact that in the last excavation that they did for their researches they also found signs of prehistoric surgery.
From my point of view, I think that these last theories can demolish lot of mysteries and myths, but in any case we don’t know much anything, which is exactly as much as we did know before. As far one can see it’s disputable to claim that Stonehenge was used to predict or even observe astronomical events, it is quite obvious that Neolithic people who started to build Stonehenge did place an enormous importance to their gods.
Finally, I can say that the only thing that we have for sure in relation to Stonehenge it’s the fact that it was probably built with certain amount of honoring to the unknown.
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