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Mike Parker-Pearson hoaxed in bizarre story about Stonehenge Wiltshire

Submitted by Andy B on Friday, 19 March 2010  Page Views: 16469

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Mike Parker-Pearson has set us an extraordinary e-mail story about himself that has been doing the rounds of some Spanish speaking archaeology e-mail lists. It appears to have started around the Spanish equivalent of April Fool's Day, December 28, día de los Santos Inocentes.

Whoever put the text together is well-informed - lots of mentions of "a mysterious person" called Gowland. Here goes with a tidied up auto-translation, followed by the original Spanish version. If you know anything about where it started why not leave an anonymous comment for us.

"This revelation was published in National Geographic magazine in its January issue,
it turns upside down the world of archeology and opens 2010 with one
of the biggest scientific scandals in history. In an article entitled
"Stonehenge, the big hoax", Archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson shows evidence that
90% of the stones at Stonehenge we see today are not
original were placed in successive "restorations" as part of a larger assembly. He provides
Correspondence between the authors of the deception and the British authorities from the year 1898 onwards.

In the documentation submitted by Parker Pearson are letters, drawings,
sketches of the project and a collection of photographs that had not hitherto
seen the light. Many of these show heavy lifting with cranes and the placing some stones
one above the other to simulate a large formation of megaliths. "We must build
something big" says the chief engineer in a February 1901 letter.

The article's author, Professor Parker Pearson, has over ten years
devoted to the study of this monument is the first to acknowledge, with
some embarrassment, that he himself has been victim of a colossal hoax that has lasted over a hundred years. Pearson ran into the first doubt while on a routine exploration of the central altar, during one of the many jobs he has done in the area.

As part of the analysis, his team looked at this rock and the rest of the central circle
which to appear in the few records before the 20th century. The result left them breathless: almost
90% of the large dolerite rocks presented a variety of
feldspar incompatible with the rocks of the Preseli Hills, from where
come the oldest megaliths. In other words, something did not fit
the puzzle of Stonehenge.

Intrigued by the data, Pearson began to investigate the history of
digging and began to piece things together. It reviewed the closeups of Stonehenge,
primal documentation and came to a mysterious character named
William Gowland, who had worked on the first "restoration" of
the monument in 1901. After two years, research led him to an
old house in Amesbury,

Gowland owned this, and several houses in the vicinity of
Stonehenge, where he found all the keys to solve the mystery.
Official documents acknowledge William Gowland as the engineer who helped
in 1901 to restore stone 56, the
trilithon western part of the great circle, but the reality is that he set at least one
dozen stones and hatched the plan for it in subsequent years
to add dozens of them without knowledge of the public.

"My head was spinning," Parker Pearson writes in National Geographic.
"There were dozens of letters between government Gowland and someone who signed
as 'Mr M' in which detailed a thorough plan to turn the area
into a focus of attraction based on the Druid culture, and should be retained
in the utmost secrecy. "? As is clear from the notes, the plan was
engineered by the Gowland circle of friends that included Alfred Harvey
(Great location at the highest levels of administration and possible 'Mr
H ') and several very well known poets and especially interested in
British history

"He is like a druid sleep," wrote the poet Milton Partridge in a letter
to Gowland. "You must do something to live up to Sir Walter Scott, worthy of King
Arthur. "In another document, signed by an astronomer friend
Gowland, Byron Douglas, presents several sky maps for Wales,
the summer solstice and the provision should have the rocks to
get the alignment. "There was careful planning," insists Parker
Pearson, "they took time to work out every detail."

"The pictures finally convinced me," said Pearson. Some were
in houses and others have provided the British government sources,
for months following its investigation and, they have
not contested the facts. Research shows that there were three "restorations" in succession, in 1901, 1919 and 1920, and an end in 1958, which added fake rocks and monoliths and
concealed the information to British society. Photographic evidence and
documents show that it was all a big lie, though, says
Parker-Pearson, "it seems incredible that something so obvious has taken so many years to
come out. "

The original documentation will soon be published (after January), but the evidence produced by National Geographic in this issue seems to be forceful enough to blow apart
the myth of Stonehenge and question how it has worked the
archeology in recent years.
END

Needless to say this is a hoax about a hoax and is not a real story!

Here's the original Spanish version:

> La revelación que hace la revista National Geographic, en su número de enero,
> pondrá patas arriba al mundo de la Arqueología y abrirá el año 2010 con uno
> de los mayores escándalos científicos de la historia. En un artículo titulado
> "Stonehenge, the big hoax", adelantado en la edición digital de EEUU, el
> arqueólogo Mike Parker Pearson pone encima de la mesa las pruebas que
> demuestran que el 90% de las piedras que hoy vemos en Stonehenge no
> pertenecen a la formación original y fueron colocadas en sucesivas
> "restauraciones" como parte de un gran montaje. Y para atestiguarlo, aporta
> la correspondencia entre los autores del engaño y las autoridades británicas
> desde el año 1898 en adelante.
>
> Entre la documentación aportada por Parker Pearson hay cartas, planos,
> bocetos del proyecto y una colección de fotografías que hasta ahora no habían
> visto la luz. En muchas de ellas puede observarse a los operarios al servicio
> de Su Majestad levantando con grúas las pesadas piedras y colocándolas unas
> sobre otras para simular una gran formación de megalitos. "Debemos construir
> algo grande", aseguraba el ingeniero jefe en una misiva de febrero de 1901,
> "un monumento que ponga Gales en la
> mente de todos y haga palidecer los hallazgos del continente franceses]".??
> El autor del artículo, el profesor Parker Pearson, lleva más de diez años
> dedicado al estudio de este monumento y es el primero en reconocer, con
> cierto sonrojo, que él mismo ha sido víctima de un montaje de proporciones
> colosales que ha durado más de cien años. Pearson se topó con la primera
> pista mientras realizaba un análisis rutinario de la base del altar central,
> durante uno de los muchos trabajos que ha realizado en la zona.
>
> Como parte del análisis, su equipo analizó esta roca y el resto del círculo
> central que aparecen en los pocos grabados del monumento anteriores al siglo
> XX y las comparó con el conjunto. El resultado les dejó sin aliento: cerca
> del 90% de las grandes rocas de dolerita presentaban una variedad de
> feldespato incompatible con las rocas de las colinas de Preseli, de donde
> proceden los megalitos más antiguos. En otras palabras: algo no encajaba en
> el puzzle de Stonehenge.
>
> Intrigado por los datos, Pearson comenzó a indagar sobre la historia de la
> excavación y empezó a atar cabos. Revisó los primeros planos de Stonehenge,
> la documentación primigenia y llegó hasta un misterioso personaje llamado
> William Gowland, que había trabajado en una primera "restauración" del
> monumento en 1901. Después de dos años, la investigación le llevó hasta una
> vieja mansión en Amesbury,
>
> perteneciente al propio Gowland, y a varias casas en el entorno de
> Stonehenge, donde encontró todas las claves para desmontar el engaño.Los
> documentos oficiales reconocen a William Gowland como el ingeniero que ayudó
> en 1901 a restaurar parte de la formación y a levantar la piedra 56, en la
> parte oeste del gran Trilithon, pero la realidad es que añadió al menos una
> docena de piedras más y tramó el plan para que en los años posteriores se
> añadieran decenas de ellas sin conocimiento de la opinión pública.
>
> "La cabeza me daba vueltas", escribe Parker Pearson en National Geographic.
> "Había decenas de cartas entre Gowland y alguien del gobierno que firmaba
> como 'Mr H' en las que detallaban un meticuloso plan para convertir la zona
> en un foco de atracción basado en la cultura druida, y que debía mantenerse
> en el más absoluto secreto".??Por lo que se deduce de las notas, el plan fue
> tramado por el círculo de amistades de Gowland, que incluía a Alfred Harvey
> (muy bien situado en las más altas esferas de la administración y posible 'Mr
> H') y varios poetas de poco renombre y especialmente interesados por la
> historia británica
>
> "Será como un sueño druida", escribía el poeta Milton Partridge en una carta
> a Gowland. "Debéis hacer algo a la altura de sir Walter Scott, digno del Rey
> Arturo". En otro de los documentos, firmado por un amigo astrónomo de
> Gowland, Douglas Byron, se presentan varios mapas del cielo de Gales durante
> el solsticio de verano y la disposición que deben tener las rocas para
> conseguir el alineamiento. "Es una planificación concienzuda", insiste Parker
> Pearson, "se tomaron tiempo de pensar hasta en el último detalle".
>
> "Las fotografías acabaron de convencerme", asegura Pearson. Algunas estaban
> en las casas y otras se las han proporcionado fuentes del gobierno británico,
> que siguen desde hace meses su investigación y que, aunque no se han
> pronunciado, tampoco han negado los hechos.??La investigación de Pearson
> revela que hubo tres "restauraciones" sucesivas, en 1901, 1919 y 1920, y una
> última en 1958, en las que se añadieron rocas y monolitos falsificados y se
> ocultó la información a la sociedad británica. Las pruebas fotográficas y
> documentales muestran que todo fue una gran mentira aunque, como dice
> Pearson, "parece increíble que algo tan evidente haya tardado tantos años en
> salir a la luz".
>
> La documentación original tardará en ser publicada (después de su fecha de
> enero), pero las pruebas que presenta National Geographic en este número
> especial, parecen tener suficiente contundencia como para hacer tambalearse
> el mito de Stonehenge y cuestionar la forma en que ha trabajado la
> Arqueología en los últimos años.

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Re: Mike Parker-Pearson hoaxed in bizarre story about Stonehenge by Gringoloco on Tuesday, 28 September 2010
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Wonder how long it took this guy to do all of the Photoshop setups. Great job, but time consuming.
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Re: MPP hoax by Anonymous on Thursday, 27 May 2010
I am in Mexico City. Just recieved the mail (hoax) referred to. As mentioned, it is well written but also cotains a number of clear photographs susposedlly showing cranes and how the stones were put together. It does look real, if you do not do some search.
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Re: MPP hoax by Anonymous on Saturday, 01 May 2010
Antonio Martínez Ron, journalist
That's the guy that invented the crazy story about stonehenge.

You can read tha story at
http://www.fogonazos.es/2009/12/national-geographic-destapa-el-fraude.html

And here is his explanation aboaut how he did it
http://www.fogonazos.es/2009/12/asi-la-lie-parda-con-el-hoax-de.html

greetings from Barcelona, spain
Leo
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Re: MPP hoax by Anonymous on Friday, 09 April 2010
See the link below http://www.ufos-aliens.co.uk/cosmicstonehenge.htm Found this web page on Stumble and immediately thought of the hoax described above. Could be the source of some of the so called facts used in the hoax or else constructed to give false corroborative detail.
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Re: MPP hoax by Anonymous on Sunday, 21 March 2010
Im confused what is hoax and what is real.
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Re: MPP hoax by Condros on Saturday, 20 March 2010
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I wonder how many people in the Spanish speaking world may think this is valid, and not a hoax ????
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Re: MPP hoax by Aluta on Friday, 19 March 2010
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Glad you cleared that up. I'd seen it and wondered about it!
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