Thanks for your videos. I know you sometimes stress about making these, but please know that it is really appreciated. As a history nerd and an English Heritage Volunteer (at Stonehenge and 2 other places!) I have got a fair bit of my knowledge/context from your videos. Please keep making them! And Rebecca, I know you don't appear in these anymore, but I expect that you are involved in the filming/editing of them. Again thanks!
@pwhitewick
5 сағат бұрын
Thanks Rob. Thats appreciated.
@andrewwilson6091
6 сағат бұрын
Admiration for Paul’s energy levels and enthusiasm for the investigations ❤
@joostvanlinge263
7 сағат бұрын
Dear Paul and Rebecca, if you wonder why a Dutchman would subscribe to your channel: don't. You make those ancient sites come alive.
@philwildcroft1764
6 сағат бұрын
Avebury is the centre of the world (where the world is defined as Mesolithic/early Neolithic southern England) because in the same way that all roads lead to Rome, all rivers lead to Avebury. River routes were incredibly important back then and from the Marlborough Downs just near Avebury (and in sight of Windmill Hill) you can flow down the Marden into the Bristol Avon, down the Kennet into the Thames, or down the Hampshire Avon. It would be more surprising if Avebury hadn't become a massively significant place.
@paulinehedges5088
6 сағат бұрын
Paul these videos get better all the time! This was truly interesting and lots of new information. Great photography too. Thank you SO MUCH. 😊😊😊😊
@pwhitewick
6 сағат бұрын
Thanks Pauline
@malcolmrichardson3881
6 сағат бұрын
Fascinating and thought-provoking video, reinforcing the argument that neolithic - and other monuments - probably had no single use, or purpose, and that these and the forms they took, evolved over many hundreds of years, and many generations. Thank you.
@terencesaunders1357
7 сағат бұрын
Have sent this video to my grandson whose girlfriend is studying archeology at Winchester university.
@pwhitewick
7 сағат бұрын
Thank you. Remind them I'm noooo archaeologist. 😬
@ColinH1973
7 сағат бұрын
Very interesting indeed, Paul. Thank you.
@pwhitewick
7 сағат бұрын
Very welcome
@WC21UKProductionsLtd
Сағат бұрын
Avebury really is the site that keeps on giving. I had absolutely no idea about this, but it's a very appealing and credible idea. Isn't it fascinating when a place develops over such a huge span of time, such that its original purpose is forgotten. There's something of the indomitable nature of mankind in that notion. Fabulous video. Thank you.
@steveclarke6257
6 сағат бұрын
I was here in the summer and flew my drone as well, there are so many features you can see in the landscape, which defy interpretion. The landscape as we understand from examination of the soils at the time of the circles were built was very different. It was wetter, and more woodier, somehing that thousands of year of agriculture has changed So we are trying to understand an enigma, from about 1 or 2% of the actual evidence from the time this was built
@highpath4776
5 сағат бұрын
Rings imply a form following mushroom growth - where the outer ring expands as new spores wont grow on land previously occupied so at one time there could have been a ring of land that was less productive and this was then filled with the stones ? Also what is the solar alignments of the main stones in the ring ?
@BillSikes.
3 сағат бұрын
We'll never really know
@howardchambers9679
2 сағат бұрын
@@highpath4776some believe that Avebury was more lunar oriented
@paulmicelli5819
7 сағат бұрын
Interesting show, keep up the good work. Thanks
@KirstenBayes
6 сағат бұрын
Sunday evening viewing sorted!
@leonardjackman354
5 сағат бұрын
Great content again Paul look forward to Sunday evenings. Magical place Avebury.
@ericbiggane9786
4 сағат бұрын
I love all the videos but prehistory is one of my favourite subjects, thank you.
@pwhitewick
3 сағат бұрын
Glad you like them!
@leighdurrant9116
3 сағат бұрын
I've been fascinated by Avebury since I was a kid, when they were featured in the TV series "Children of the Stones", shamefully I've still not been to see them. Great video, as always makes me want to visit even more !!
@robertthomas603
3 сағат бұрын
Thanks, I was unaware of the circle between the 2 barrows. So that will now keep me busy for a few weeks.
@AllotmentFox
6 сағат бұрын
Isn’t it interesting that we both filmed a video there within days of each other yet our interpretations are so different? It has been well known that some long barrows were previously houses for the living that then were rebuilt as houses for the dead but I had no idea about Avebury. Funnily enough I did say to myself, that’s a rectangle but didn’t think any further on it. That’ll teach me to dig a bit deeper. I like that Avebury is still revealing itself to us. Great video.
@pwhitewick
5 сағат бұрын
Thanks Tom. I really enjoyed this one. Yup, i think we missed each other by less than 48 hours.
@philipwalker7611
4 сағат бұрын
So the stone ring spanning the potholed path also had a structure in the middle that pre-dated the ring - is that right? And the same originally at Avebury. Fascinating video. Thank you. I'm lucky enough to live on the edge of the Cotswold escarpment with many barrows on top of the crest seemingly pointing at the setting sun. Oh for a discreet time machine!
@nickrider5220
7 сағат бұрын
Thanks Paul, that's one of your finest videos, I would've watched that for hours ! 🍻
@pwhitewick
7 сағат бұрын
Thank you. I really enjoyed making this.
@paulukjames7799
6 сағат бұрын
Your best podcast yet Paul keep up the good work excellent .
@pwhitewick
5 сағат бұрын
Much appreciated
@jerrygale1994
7 сағат бұрын
Another gem. Thank you for creating and sharing
@FatFrankie42
6 сағат бұрын
*_A comment offering for the algorithm gods_*
@AndyJarman
3 сағат бұрын
No doubt a 'ritual' practice?
@ChrisShortyAllen
6 сағат бұрын
Another top presentation.
@pwhitewick
6 сағат бұрын
Thank you
@IanDDalton
6 сағат бұрын
I love your video's on a rainy Sunday afternoon. A place I have been very interested in lately is Cold Kitchen Hill which is near Kingston Deverill in Wiltshire. The name "Cold Kitchen" apparently comes from the Celtic Col Cruachan, meaning Hill of the Wizard. I think its somewhere you would be very interested in, as it is the site of a Roman Temple, and also has neolithic activity very close by. I think this may have been ancient route, as it straddles the borders of Wiltshire and Somerset, but may be worth some Whitewick investigation :)
@pwhitewick
6 сағат бұрын
Love it up there. The crossing of two Roman Roads as well.
@philwildcroft1764
6 сағат бұрын
The Deverills are lovely so well worth a visit even if the investigation comes to nothing. :)
@HassanRadwan133
2 сағат бұрын
Thanks for this. I often passed by Avebury and would stop for lunch and a pale ale at the pub after walking around the stones. Always gave me goosebumps!
@richmeister1960
7 сағат бұрын
Thank you, this has change my understanding of a place I know so well.
@mattrishton
4 сағат бұрын
Great vid; You should check out the story of the lost Shap stone circle and ceremonial avenues in Westmorland; reputed to be even bigger than the Avebury complex...
@nigelsouthworth5577
7 сағат бұрын
Thanks for posting. I was looking forward to this and enjoyed it. I have subscribed.
@pwhitewick
7 сағат бұрын
Thanks Nigel. Welcome
@hedleythorne
Сағат бұрын
Excellent presentation, and some insightful information into Avebury.
@paul.Darling
7 сағат бұрын
Once again thank you Paul, Avebury is to my mind a far more complex and interesting landscape than Stonehenge. Thank you also for shedding light on the homestead origin of the complex, not many people will have heard about this I think..........................
@ChristinaEdley
7 сағат бұрын
Your channel is like a festival of good moods and fun moments. Keep lifting our spirits with your beautiful creativity!💴🛖🎂
@GS-lu2zu
3 сағат бұрын
Spam bot back again 😂
@AndyJarman
3 сағат бұрын
I recently watched a Phil "the hat" Harding video about a double mini henge at Bullsford between Avebury and Stonehenge. It immediately reminded me of the double circles at Avebury. I've been reading a historic account of how the family in classical Greece and Rome was rooted to the ground on which it was founded. The patriarch of the family being priest and law giver. Each house had it's own ancestor worship personified in household gods. It's called Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism by the late great, recently departed Prof. Larry Siedentop (2014). Foundation myths were so strongly attached with the family, it's gens, it's clan, it's city and eventually it's nation state that when establishing new colonies, the patriarch would bring soil from the original house and bury it beneath the new house so 'rooted' were they in the soil. I recommend everyone read this book. Paul's revealing a long house as perhaps the 'gens-erator' of the whole monument really struck a chord with me concerning Sidentop's book.
@judithafholland
23 минут бұрын
Fantastic. For 50 years I've wondered where they interred the ordinary people because only a select few were interred in long barrows.
@davie941
7 сағат бұрын
nice one yet again Paul , very well done and thank you 😊
@johnvanstone5336
4 сағат бұрын
Superb video, much appreciate the work that has gone into this film, excellent stuff
@pwhitewick
3 сағат бұрын
Many thanks!
@johnhughes8563
3 сағат бұрын
Once again thank you for an excellent video.
@pixelpeter3883
7 сағат бұрын
Wow, that was interesting; to hear and learn about those new insights!
@andrew-jw5yw
3 сағат бұрын
Wonderfully educational and interesting
@QualityCraftsmen
5 сағат бұрын
Great context! Thank you for the new prospective.
@unitycalling4676
7 сағат бұрын
Back in the 90s I chose Avebury as my favourite place to go. Then after a 5 years in Scotland 2010 I moved to Corsham nearby. I transferred to the Swindon Branch of DPD which was in Wootton Basset. By luck I was given Avebury as my round. I was in heaven. When you are a delivery driver you get to go into properties off piste. The circle you mentioned for instance. There are a lot of rocks about. small to large. Has anybody ever tested those smaller rocks for where they came from? I live on the Isle of Wight now and still have connections with Corsham so look forward to visiting it again soon. Did you look at the rock they call Romeo and Juliet?
@vsvnrg3263
4 сағат бұрын
bbc did a doco nearly 40 years ago about this area. there was a dowser assessing where there should have been stones.
@loudrah326
3 сағат бұрын
I loved it here... See that white pub on the corner, The Red Lion I think! It is the most haunted pub in England or so they say.... They even done a most haunted there....
@tombra7
2 сағат бұрын
Great video ! Structure near farm lays exact on the line from West Kennet to St Paul`s Cathedral .
@davidberlanny3308
5 сағат бұрын
Hi Paul, as always very interesting and really well put together, well done!! I can imagine the circles and henges having a use or perhaps many uses over time. The one that gets me is Silbury Hill I really can't fathom that one out and its truly enormous. Following Darren's video I spent a bit of time looking for stone circles down here, none nearby but there are 359 in an area on the Basque Country, 359!! Great video. All the best!!
@GC-rf2st
4 сағат бұрын
Brilliant as usual😁
@willhemmings
4 сағат бұрын
Thank you for this excellent production. I just learned there was a house at Avebury before the sarsens were brought in. Now I want to know who lived in it. The owner could not have been very clever, hardly worth commemorating, because these people from southern England built rubbish houses. They could have learned a thing or two from the Orcadians. Now their graves, their post circles, their palisades, their avenues - that was another thing entirely. Note the plough marks in the field at 15.16. They look very evenly spaced, like the position of former posts
@TrevsTravelsByNarrowboat
Сағат бұрын
I have not been to Avebury for about 20 years, but I used to love visiting it when I lived in Basingstoke.
@andrewduke1489
7 сағат бұрын
Such a fascinating place. Nice work.
@richieixtar5849
7 сағат бұрын
Again very interesting and a pause for thought too.
@scotbotvideos
5 сағат бұрын
Dude, I've seen Children of the Stones, a 1970s documentary about the true origin of the monument. Nobody can't tell me that it is not accurate; I won't have it. 😉😉😉
@matthewbooth9265
3 сағат бұрын
personally I think the film the Quartermass Conclusion was probably the real reason for the stones:)
@mendyman
2 сағат бұрын
Great video. Enthralling. Nicely paced.
@LKBRICKS1993
6 сағат бұрын
Great video really enjoyed it very interesting history.
@pwhitewick
5 сағат бұрын
Many thanks!
@seigokarasu-z5c
6 сағат бұрын
Perhaps spuriously, I conjecture that the rise of complex structures surrounding homesteads leading to a burial site for generations that have traveled extensively fits with the odyssean song line. Two long separated human/hominid populations brought together by the expanding seacraft of one group. Colonization and intermarriage leading to a new civilization. Probably a bit much for archaeology. I should figure out how to call Netflix...
@Gang-zy7lq
7 сағат бұрын
I love these history lessons i do
@doctorscoot
36 минут бұрын
Thanks for another great video 🙏 - love them. I did ancient history at university, my only contact with this subject matter was via a subject on Roman Britain. Villas and roads(and Bath)! I did some reading on pre-Roman Britain, but thanks for the better perspectives on this subject. ❤
@patrickselden5747
2 сағат бұрын
Fascinating, Paul! Thank you very much... ☝️😎
@crookedhands2701
6 сағат бұрын
Quality as always!
@pwhitewick
5 сағат бұрын
Much appreciated!
@Jimyjames73
3 сағат бұрын
I always look forward to watching your interesting Videos Paul - Thanks for sharing 😉🙂🚂🚂🚂
@CourtAboveTheCut
5 сағат бұрын
Excellent, a very local area to me, I might need to retrace your steps
@bathroomjon1
3 сағат бұрын
Great video as always - cheers
@AWilson-wo5kr
6 сағат бұрын
Facinating
@peterfrance702
6 сағат бұрын
The local population must have been considerable
@pwhitewick
6 сағат бұрын
Indeed.
@davidtabb3678
3 сағат бұрын
What we really need is a visual depiction of the time line of all of the monuments in the area of Avebury Stonehenge Slibury etc. I’ve watched a lot of your videos ( and enjoyed them immensely), and now would like for all these dispersed pieces of information to be brought together in one place. Do you think it’s possible ¿?
@henchy3rd
5 сағат бұрын
Yet again, another splendid educational video from Paul. T’would be interesting if a geologist checked out all the old buildings to see if they could identify stones that came from far away(don’t belong to the erea). Which could indicate they were once part of the stone antiquities.
@R.J._Lewis
5 сағат бұрын
This is the Paul or Rebecca video that I've seen about a place I've actually gotten to go to. I'm American though, so it's less surprising.
@MarkStiles
2 сағат бұрын
Great video, really interesting - as I was following along on Google Maps I came across Fyfield and the valley of stones - didn't even know that existed!
@hadz8671
Сағат бұрын
Having been to Avebury, I found it much more impressive than Stonehenge. The village being situated among the stones gives a palpable sense of how ancient the landscape is.
@jakedee4117
6 сағат бұрын
Thank you for your work Paul, but I'm still not sure I get it. I can see how the monument complex developed in stages over centuries, but is the operating hypothesis that the central rectilinear building (a longhouse?) was gone before the stone circle was erected or did they coexist for some time and the wooden structure disappeared leaving only the stones? The later seems more likely. Human psychology would memorialize and do "ritual stuff" around where you are NOW, not where you once were. If it was a grave site that would be different but the Neolithic population had the barrows to memorialize their dead. Are we sure, or can reasonably suppose that the circle makers and the barrow makers were the same community?
@OrangeNash
3 сағат бұрын
Yes, the move from wooden structures to stones, on the same site, happens all over the place. Stonehenge, obviously. Also Stanton Drew where there was a massive layout of stone posts before the stone circle was built, presumably replacing them. Stone is more permanant. I guess that these people, as smart as us, learnt new techniques over the thousands of years of these sites activity. Whether the stones had similar signifance, symbolising ancestors, perhaps?
@davidoakman3514
3 сағат бұрын
Great little film, Check out books by Aubrey Burl for a more in depth understanding of this monument. The archeology suggests there were in fact three inner circles before the henge cut through the third
@davidrowley-ic6dx
3 сағат бұрын
Highly thought provoking video and much enjoyed. It is quite clear that we need to maintain immense respect for our ancestors ... these ancient peoples existed in an incredibly rich cultural landscape, one that stretched across Europe and up through to the the islands off the north coast of Scotland ... one that appears to have embraced everyone within its circuit of influence .... one that had the means and the confidence to lug hefty chunks of stone over hundreds of miles from one end of the UK to the other. Truly amazing ... haven't we done well for ourselves ?? ... they'd be sooooo proud 🙄
@lizthompson9653
4 сағат бұрын
Fantastic vidrp
@andrewnorth170
7 сағат бұрын
Hey, very interesting video as always(Bit early this week)
@pwhitewick
7 сағат бұрын
Slip of the finger! 🤦♂️
@hattyburrow716
4 сағат бұрын
Brilliant stuff
@CraftyPadawan-gh2ou
4 сағат бұрын
Magic stuff mate. Your videos are some of my favourite KZitem content. 👏👏👏 Do you write and edit them yourself as well?
@pwhitewick
3 сағат бұрын
Wrote, edit and film yup. Cheers. Stories though are often through various archaeological organises, in this case the good people at Cotswold archaeology
@CraftyPadawan-gh2ou
3 сағат бұрын
@@pwhitewick I know how time consuming the production aspect is. Kudos mate, it’s really worth it from the consumer side 👏👏 brilliant, brilliant work
@Sk8Bettty
Сағат бұрын
What a nice chat!
@allenatkins2263
7 сағат бұрын
The BBC should put your program on. You are a natural.
@pwhitewick
7 сағат бұрын
Thanks, that's very kind.
@Steve-gc5nt
6 сағат бұрын
Or maybe even a quality broadcaster could.
@bjbest
5 сағат бұрын
History Hit?
@Castlelong333
5 сағат бұрын
Bbc only do lies and propaganda
@Castlelong333
5 сағат бұрын
@@allenatkins2263 bbc only do propaganda
@robpearce5154
Сағат бұрын
Paul, I have something quite interesting to add to the history of Avebury. About six months ago, I saw a video about the area which puts a completely different light on the area when the site was new. At that time, it was much closer to the final end of the last ice age. Rivers like the Kennet and the Salisbury Avon near Stonehenge would have been much larger that today, the water table being much higher. And so the western side of the Avebury site would have most likely been accessible by boats coming up the River Kennet, similarly Stonehenge via the River Avon. Both rivers would doubtless have been two or three times their current size and therefore been obvious routes to such monuments, regardless of their actual functions at the time. Have you been made aware of this video? I regret I have lost the link to it, but it was published around 6 months ago.
@martinh4982
7 сағат бұрын
Interesting idea, but going to those lengths, over multiple generations of people, to memorialise a building? Nah. I tend to think of our ancestors as not too dissimilar to ourselves. How many of us actually know who our great-great grandparents actually were, let alone continue a project they started? It would have been the same back then, unless there was a reason recognised by an entire society to keep something going for that long. I have a similar argument about people transporting big stones over large distances, say from Northumbria. Nobody in their right mind would do it, especially if that task would take months, if not years, to undertake. It's far more likely, if you ask me, that the stones were simply there to be used having been deposited by some and ice-age glacier.
@highpath4776
5 сағат бұрын
It is thought the glaciers didnt reach that far south ( though we could be wrong , and river transport as well can wash stones toward the south once depositied a bit closer )
@drewzero1
51 минут бұрын
Maybe it wasn't about the building itself, but what it meant and represented. If the building was very culturally/religiously meaningful its memory might have been important to preserve. Something like the 9/11 memorial in NYC might be an example where the building itself is memorialized, though it's admittedly too soon to tell how many generations that will remain significant.
@martinh4982
35 минут бұрын
@@drewzero1 In the case of 9/11 it isn't the buildings being memorialised, it's the event and the loss of life. What tends to happen in history to culturally important buildings is that they get rebuilt, but people don't put up vast monuments to them.
@danallen3947
5 сағат бұрын
as usual very good video
@yannmaenden7236
6 сағат бұрын
The problem with archeologists is that anything they don't understand is marked down as ceremonial - followed by all sorts of fanciful ( and evidence free ) theories about what the ceremony meant. A recent example was a pit with standing stones and two doors. We were authoritatively told that this was a ceremonial pit, where young men entered through one door, weaved across the pit around the stones and exited through the other door - this to mark the onset of manhhod. Unfortunately when compared with similar pits elsewhere it turned out to be a granary !!!! I would suggest much the same would hold true when you talk about hallowed residences surrounded by posts and stone circles.
@highpath4776
5 сағат бұрын
Circles to me imply the tie down edges of a round house , generalised area for retaining livestock in winter .
@ghostofkadesh9041
5 сағат бұрын
this one got you a new sub 😃👍
@carltontweedle5724
5 минут бұрын
Love your work it a great thing when you say things are not as they seem. Built over generations just like the old castles. Not done in a few years, but why did they keep building on the same site?
@andymcgeechan8318
Сағат бұрын
If I may. One could think of nelson's Column. He is not buried there, he did not die there, and it was not the first one erected in his name. But, it is the one we all remember him by. Perhaps the earlier structure, or building, could be thought of in such a way.
@nataliewielgus1472
6 сағат бұрын
Definitely definitely should employed by history channel lol will you ever do the wrenchford trail in the forest of dean in South Gloucestershire.. So many long barrows and hill forts but also alot of roman ruins in Gloucester
@pwhitewick
5 сағат бұрын
Thank you
@ivorbueb9862
2 сағат бұрын
Would you be related to a Bill Whitewick, who I worked with at a steel construction company in Winchester in the 1970s?
@pwhitewick
2 сағат бұрын
Almost certainly. We all derive from Richard Whitewick in 1781 who couldn't spell his name. Should have been a wightwick
@domytar5395
2 сағат бұрын
Hello love your programmes was ivan Knapper the time team Artist thanks.
@Astro_Gardener
51 минут бұрын
Avebury, a great place to visit and you can touch the stones not like Stonehenge!
@Tom_Quixote
4 сағат бұрын
The excavation had to stop because "a void opened up"? And then nothing more about that? What kind of void? What was inside it?
@pwhitewick
3 сағат бұрын
Sadly I've no idea. You'd have to ask the team at Cotswold Archaeology
@boba2783
Сағат бұрын
I’m amazed at the loss of ice age rocks that were left after the melt where are they all?
@christina3521
2 сағат бұрын
Don’t you wonder at all the conversations the wind heard But won’t tell us
@pwhitewick
2 сағат бұрын
So very much.
@Polpey
Сағат бұрын
Thanks!
@andrewbaker8373
Сағат бұрын
What was the age of the square building within the Avebury circle? How was the presumption of purpose of the circle around this building substantiated or at least assumed?
@Jimyjames73
3 сағат бұрын
No Paul it's where you pointed the 2nd Time at the end of your vid...😉😄🚂🚂🚂
@janebaker966
3 сағат бұрын
Really enjoyed this. Your narrative was impressive,in that you maintained the tension of the "story",kept us wanting to know what happened next. Id never heard that interpretation so that's a new idea to think about. I have read that there were once countless stones,thousands,enough for several hundred years worth of fires and stone breaking vandalism through the medieval era as the Church sought to rid the landscape of its "pagan" past. That too puts today's landscape in a different perspective too doesn't it. Good thing a few survived. Fascinating to think of our Neolithic ancestors creating a sacred landscape. Also I find it fascinating that the culture that created this sacred landscape was pan European as recently thanks to new tests etc they've established that the people of this culture moved around between there and northern France and Belgium as we now call those places.
@b.griffin317
Сағат бұрын
Avery began with a house?! When does it date to (in relation to West Kennet LB and Windmill Hill)?
@a11csc
6 сағат бұрын
😊😊👍👍❤❤
@RobertJohnLangdon-author
5 сағат бұрын
It seems we're venturing into highly subjective interpretations and overlooking the logical, empirical evidence for Avebury. This so-called groundbreaking discovery reveals that some post holes have carbon dating of 2800 BCE and 2200 BCE- the error is your timelines, as this occurred at the end of the Avebury camp, not its beginning. The age of the Avebury site can be determined by the ditch (notably not mentioned in the video, for good reason) due to its massive size and relationship with the nearby River Kennet. A basic critical analysis of the site’s hydrology, including British Geological Survey (BGS) maps, shows that at one time, the river was connected to the ditches, transforming them into moats. This is not speculative; past ditch excavations (Harold St George Gray) had to be halted when they reached the current water table level of the Kennet because the trench began flooding. This indicates that the ditch predates the oblong structure within the so-called original stone circles by at least 1,000 years (which have never been dated!). My video channel provides much more empirical evidence that could help you revise your assumptions.🤓
@candui-7
8 минут бұрын
What was in the moats surrounding the megaliths? What happened when lightning struck the obelisk atop the high hill nearby? What did King Arthur pull out of that rock? A sword? I don't think so. 14 ka and older folks.
@davetaylor4741
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I've been to these monuments, and others like them. You always leave with more questions than answers. My biggest question is why ? The earthworks are huge. The stones are huge. Lot of heavy manual labour. It is not like today, leaning on your shovel watching hydraulics move everything. There has to be one hell of a driving force to make all this effort. I can see building defensive structures. Nasty creatures humans. And building shelter from the elements. Makes sense. But most of these aren't that. So built for what ?. A belief system, basically, of as archaeologists say, ritual purpose. The forerunner to building a church to secure your place in heaven. A tribute to some entity that brings you light, rain, and all things pertaining to the environment you live in. Or to venerate your ancestors. Plant a stone for great uncle Sid. Nice bloke, well remembered. Some are meeting places, maybe the first open air concerts. Top of the bill the Rolling Stones. A young Mick strutting his stuff to swooning fur clad maidens. In the 1600's they had their ideas. In the 2000's we have our ideas. In the 2200's they will have their version. It will continue to be a place of interest and speculation. Or ask Mick for a definitive answer.
@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne
6 сағат бұрын
I've got no chance as I still can't understand my wife and we've been together decades...
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