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<< Our Photo Pages >> Bantu stone circles - Standing Stones in South Africa

Submitted by bat400 on Sunday, 19 April 2009  Page Views: 23604

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Bantu stone circles Alternative Name: Adam's Calendar, Johan Heine Stone Calendar, Bantu Kraals, Adams Calendar
Country: South Africa
NOTE: This site is 109.511 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Standing Stones
Nearest Town: Nelspruit  Nearest Village: Kaapsehoop
Latitude: 25.6317S  Longitude: 30.760025E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Bantu stone circles
Bantu stone circles submitted by ModernExplorers : The 2 central stones used for measuring the movement of the sun (Vote or comment on this photo)
Standing Stones in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. A collection of standing stones on the edge of an escarpment near Kaapsehoope, South Africa. This grouping was identified by Johan Heine, a pilot and firefighter, as stone circle with multiple astronomical alignments.

When historians first stumbled upon these structures they assumed that they were cattle kraal left behind by the Bantu people as they moved south and settled the land from around the 13th century. This idea today seems unlikely as a definitive answer, as there are several thousand similar ruins spread over tens of thousands of miles. The design of the structures is unlike any other Bantu cattle-kraal designs, which are usually made of thorny shrubs, with a single entrance/exit for the cattle. The complexity, design and high number, offer the possibility that these are the remains of a lost 'cultural activity' hitherto unaccounted for in the region.


Some of the stones definitely appear to have been shaped; others are quite natural.

The controversial aspect of the site lies in the extent to which all the alignments identified are intentional, and the great age attributed to the site by Heine and amateur astronomer Bill Hollenbach: 75,000 to 250,000 years old.
Amanda Esterhuysen, Wits University academic (geography, archaeology and environmental sciences) is among several professionals who acknowledge an ancient heritage of this site and many stone enclosures of Mpumalanga Province, but who find no agreement with the methods Heine and Hollenbach used to "date" this and other sites.

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Bantu stone circles
Bantu stone circles submitted by Ishtar : Site in Southern Africa: supposedly these are astronomically aligned (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Bantu stone circles
Bantu stone circles submitted by Ishtar : Site in Southern Africa: (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Bantu stone circles
Bantu stone circles submitted by ModernExplorers : Site in South Africa (Vote or comment on this photo)

Bantu stone circles
Bantu stone circles submitted by ModernExplorers : The stone Michael Tellinger claims is a statue of Horus (Vote or comment on this photo)

Bantu stone circles
Bantu stone circles submitted by ModernExplorers : The site was full of stones that seemed to be drawing lines to various points of the circles

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Re: Johan Heine Stone Calendar by Andy B on Wednesday, 30 January 2013
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Discussion of this site in the forum
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Forum&file=viewtopic&topic=3312&forum=1

Description of a visit by Andrew Collins, with ground and aerial photos
http://www.andrewcollins.com/page/articles/txsa_4_adams.htm
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Re: Johan Heine Stone Calendar by tiompan on Sunday, 19 April 2009
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A fireman/pilot & pop singer who can't agree whether the site is 77,000 years old or 250,000 and the oldest stone circle known is circa 7,000 at best is worthy of a least a smile. Not quite so newsworthy but fortunately a local archaeologist has been given the opportunity to have her say.

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