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TimPrevett
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|  Posted 21-09-2006 at 10:37
The markings (formerly post holes) in the car park at Stonehenge are dated to the Mesolithic.
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=4841
Yet typically the mesolithic folk weren't into timber circles, were they? Assuming a timber circle, anyway.
This seems incongruous with much archaeology, and thinking of the mesolithic period as a time of hunter-gatherers, usually not settling in one place for too long, or only periodically.
Thoughts? Opinions?
Curious
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Andy B
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| Posted 21-09-2006 at 13:25
A comment on that gallery page covers a lot of it
"Actually at the three posts are seperated by 3000 years in the radiocarbon dates with the earliest dating to 11000 BC so its more likely that these represent a phased structure rather than any kind of henge or palisaded enclosure. There is a tree hole to the north of the posts which may have been the focus for the posts suggesting that they were religious in nature and probably totem like posts. Coincidently there is also a fourth post which was found during the digging of the pedestrian tunnel to Stonehenge during the 1980s leading too speculation that there are probably more undiscovered posts."
The totem pole idea seems reasonable, marking the very earliest type of man-made monument?
[ This message was edited by: Andy B on 2006-09-21 19:15 ]
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| Posted 21-09-2006 at 23:34
This is anachronistic, but the basis may be relevant:
IE "brih" means "to expand, grow, fructify, bud" > "Brahma" creator god.
IE "bhel" means "swollen ,plump" > "Bile" creator god of Celts, and now in Scots, Breton "billie" meaning big tree, tree-stump. Trees as totem poles suggest warrior-ancestors who "sprout" descendants, phallic power, acorn fodder of oaks as the 1st gift by Jupiter to men, and the world tree of underworld and sky.
German "bram" /brahm/ means ship top-mast, and OE "moest" mast is also oak-acorn fodder, suggesting "brahma" oak worship in both Saxon and Celt. And how far back do their traditions go?
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