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Old 02-November-2009, 03:33 PM
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To be honest, it was about 1 am and I was barely awake for it. Sounds right. It was about the theory that Stonehenge was used as a ritual center for the start of spring, and that the people would start at Stonehenge in the morning, then move upstream to the second wooden structure by nightfall.

It was nice to see a program that had absolutely zero content about aliens or paranormal involvement. The "too much guessing" I was referring to was the "The people were feeling this emotion as they made their way up to here. Then there was a great outburst of this other emotion" etc etc. Storytelling. I know that's what they do. I'm just more of the mindset to stick with the "we found this artifact here. These bones there" and not try to pretend I knew what each person was thinking back then.

But again, that's just the difference in opinions. And the work they had done seemed sound.
Cool. The TV show is, of course, given as entertainment - but, unusually for Stonehenge, the ideas it presents are actually standing on the solid foundations of some excellent archaeological work. From memory, that actual work isn't really discussed on the show to any useful extent.
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