Four or possibly five large Mesolithic postholes beneath Stonehenge date to around 8000 BC and may have supported a timber canopy or served as totem poles. Nearby Blick Mead also shows early Mesolithic occupation, while Stonehenge's monumental phases are broadly dated to 3000-1500 BC. Collins argues that the landscape held special meaning from about 8500 BC and compares it with the emergence of Tas Tepeler in southeastern Anatolia, asking whether the two traditions were linked. 🔥
Presenter compares Stonehenge's 8000 BC ritual landscape with Tas Tepeler
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- Four or possibly five large Mesolithic postholes beneath Stonehenge date to around 8000 BC and have been interpreted as supporting a timber canopy or totem poles.
- Blick Mead shows occupation from the early Mesolithic period, while Stonehenge's monumental phases are broadly dated to about 3000-1500 BC.
- The presenter argues that the Stonehenge landscape held special meaning from about 8500 BC.
- The video compares this with the emergence of Tas Tepeler sites in southeastern Anatolia and asks whether the traditions were linked; the connection is not an established archaeological finding.
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andrewcollins.com
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megalithomania.co.uk
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Stonehenge stone circle, near Amesbury, Wiltshire, Englandwww2.stetson.edu
Charcoal from the pits indicates the posts were pinewood and set in place between 8500-6700 bce. They may have resembled the free-standing totem poles
Prehistoric Stonehenge - Still Currentstillcurrent.blog
New archaeological evidence now shows that the area around Stonehenge was used as an ancient burial ground as far back as 8000 BC.
Stonehengeen.wikipedia.org
Archaeologists have found four, or possibly five, large Mesolithic postholes (one may have been a natural tree throw), which date to around 8000 BC, beneath the ...
Stonehenge facts and historynationalgeographic.com
A complicated pattern of wooden posts was replaced in about 2600 B.C. by 80 dolerite bluestones from Wales that were rearranged at least ...
A timeline of Stonehenge: from hunter-gatherers to solstice ...britishmuseum.org
Around 2500–2000 BC Solstice alignment Ancient tree stump surrounded by 54 wooden posts in a pool of sea water.
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