Stonehenge

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(An older thread referencing the column had been locked). Here’s the 2003 column.

I’ll start us off with two comments:

  1. The Pliocene era was three to five million years ago, not 650,000. I think the Welsh bluestone (dolerite and rhyolite) really was deposited (volcanically) during the Pliocene, but I’m not sure.

  2. “Christianity has been around less time than Stonehenge” – well, duh. I think Antiquarian meant to say “Christianity has been around less time than* it took to build* Stonehenge.” Now that’s pretty amazing (and equally true).

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3: "=inches. '=feet. Don’t screw that up.

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SDMB’s own Lynne Kelly offers intriguing new insights about Stonehenge in her recent, excellent and highly acclaimed book The Memory Code.

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I haven’t read the book but I watched a 45-minute video of a presentation she did on it and it absolutely amazing. I even had a brief e-mail conversation about Quipus and the Nazca line -with me being Peruvian- and she was incredibly nice and gave me even more information.

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Looks cool. Added to Amazon wish list. :slight_smile:

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I’m still working through the textbook version: Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies: Orality, Memory and the Transmission of Culture.

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Got cut off by life - - wanted to add that The Memory Code is cool on audiobook.