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Stonehenge was built on solstice axis, dig confirm

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Evergreen Dazed Sep 9, 2013 11:36:53
Replying to nigelswift

nigelswift wrote:
Well this is a bit strange:

"It tells us a lot about why Stonehenge was located where it is and why they [prehistoric people] were so interested in the solstices. It's not to do with worshipping the sun, some kind of calendar or astronomical observatory; it's about how this place was special to prehistoric people."

I'd have thought it pointed to all those things. And as for being interested in the solstices not being to do with worshipping the sun how does he work that out?

Those were pretty much my thoughts tbh. I don't understand how this discovery negates some of those ideas.

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nigelswift Sep 9, 2013 11:45:13
Replying to Evergreen Dazed

Evergreen Dazed wrote:
Those were pretty much my thoughts tbh. I don't understand how this discovery negates some of those ideas.
I suspect he doesn't think it does, it's just that he's so keen to push the stripes as THE big discovery it sort of came out as minimising everything else!

I sympathise with him though, the stripes are very compelling.