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Re: Stonehenge - Art work
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bladup wrote:
Thanks for the link moss, Trying to say Stonehenge was designed as a work of art is just putting modern [art critic] minds on the monument [it's the same with the ice age program, even though it was great to look at, they were seen as magical items not art], it's funny how they suggest Stonehenge may have been conceived as a work of art and then in the next breath say the carvings are 700-800 years after it was built [with the sarsens], and they [the carvings] probably have nothing to do with the original builders beliefs or and this is the important bit those styles of axes and daggers, it suggests new people to the region did the art by bringing their new culture with them and the locals at the time loving all the new types of shiny shiny metal items [daggers and flanged axes from the med would have been very exotic and the thing to have at the time].


Hope you don't mind me disagreeing with you about the BBC2 Ice Age programme - if you watched it all the way through you know that Andrew G-D visited some of the famous caves containing paintings in northern Spain/France. If anything he was suggesting that art was used as a form of communication. His conclusion at the end of the programme was that Ice Age people were much the same as us and rather than 'pre' history their art was very much part of our own continuing history.

I like Moss's comment that what has been found at Stonehenge may have had a different purpose, perhaps linked to trading.


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Posted by tjj
11th February 2013ce
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