tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787185370858787658.post7978051174395046821..comments2024-01-30T06:35:10.103+00:00Comments on www.Sarsen.org: Neolithic Farmers MigrationTim Dawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667360714222841797noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787185370858787658.post-23596526155193664532018-02-28T13:13:49.597+00:002018-02-28T13:13:49.597+00:00Genuine request for advice: does anyone know of a ...Genuine request for advice: does anyone know of a website on which new ideas and interpretation re Stonehenge and Neolithic Britain can be aired and discussed?<br /><br />I keep searching, year after year - but have so far drawn a complete blank.<br /><br /> My own site gets scarcely any visitors:<br /><br />https://wordpress.com/stats/day/sussingstonehenge.wordpress.com<br /><br />Not being a conspiracy theorist, I shan't attempt to speculate on why ...sciencebodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12051016731274875332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787185370858787658.post-43487202732345061802018-02-22T07:35:56.776+00:002018-02-22T07:35:56.776+00:00The alignment is nothing to do with the summer and...The alignment is nothing to do with the summer and winter solstices - a fanciful 18th century idea that should have been laid to rest long ago for lack of corroborating evidence.<br /><br />The alignment is almost certainly due to the prevailing southwesterly winds we experience in the UK, coming in off the Atlantic, and bringing that thing which substitutes for climate, namely WEATHER. <br /><br />The alignment of causewayed enclosures was initially to serve as WINDBREAKS, later evolving for additional add-on uses too...<br /><br />I've tacked the windbreak idea on the end of my current "Heel Stone" posting.<br /><br />https://sussingstonehenge.wordpress.com/2018/02/19/best-not-to-ask-what-stonehenge-was-really-for-though-that-beaked-sarsen-so-called-heel-stone-may-provide-a-likely-clue/<br /><br /> I hope to give it a posting of its own in due course. There's much reading to be done first. Ideas/criticism always welcome, here or on my own site.<br /><br />sciencebodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12051016731274875332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787185370858787658.post-49278079298067166132018-02-20T20:21:40.080+00:002018-02-20T20:21:40.080+00:00Come to think of it, the DNA-based 'Anatolian ...Come to think of it, the DNA-based 'Anatolian migrant' discovery (on topic!) provides an entirely new rationale for those causewayed enclosures, henges, stone circles etc in Britain, Ireland, France etc, at least initially.<br /><br />It even provides an explanation for gaps in the north-east facing part of a banked-off circle (nope, nothing to do with solstices!).<br /><br />If there's anyone out there who's interested in radically new (?) out-of-the-box thinking, then say so soon, failing which I'll make it the next posting on my own site.<br /><br />Clue: think geographical conditions pertaining to the Atlantic seaboard of Europe...sciencebodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12051016731274875332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787185370858787658.post-47445975674400326652018-02-19T14:19:06.500+00:002018-02-19T14:19:06.500+00:00While laying myself open to the charge of posting ...While laying myself open to the charge of posting another off-topic comment, I'm now - yet again - using/abusing Tim's site to say I've today updated my case for Stonehenge as a speciality and indeed somewhat quirky Brit (pre-Brit? migrant Anatolian?) pre-cremation site, resorting to what in 2016 I called "AFS" (avian-facilitated skeletonization). <br /><br />So what's new? There's now the focus on that interesting so-called sarsen Heel Stone (it's beaked animal characteristics seemingly flagged up first on this site by yours truly, albeit via Comments, not previously on my own sites). To those who say it's nothing new, then please supply a link or two. My own internet searches have so far turned up nothing (Wiki being strangely silent!)<br /><br />https://sussingstonehenge.wordpress.com/2018/02/19/best-not-to-ask-what-stonehenge-was-really-for-though-that-beaked-sarsen-so-called-heel-stone-may-provide-a-likely-clue/<br /><br />I shall intrude no further on this site, at least as regards my own theorizing, unless or until there are new comments that invite a response, which it would be a discourtesy to ignore.<br /><br />Put another way, I shall now watch and wait... <br /><br />Cheers<br /><br /><b>Colin Berry</b> (aka sciencebod)sciencebodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12051016731274875332noreply@blogger.com