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PALEOLITHIC 'END OF LIFE HEALTHCARE' SUGGESTED IN 'BLUE STONEHENGE' DISCOVERED SEPTEMBER '09
PALEOLITHIC 'END OF LIFE HEALTHCARE' SUGGESTED IN 'BLUE STONEHENGE' DISCOVERED SEPTEMBER '09
Remains of a circle of Welsh bluestones discovered in September barely a mile from Stonehenge is described in an article from the University of Manchester posted today (October 6th) at PhysOrg:
'Blue Stonehenge' discovered
(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists have released an artist’s impression of what a second stone circle found a mile from Stonehenge might have looked like.
(Excerpts and link below)
Informed Reader sent comments along with the PhysOrg post:
Blue Stonehenge discovery elucidates socio-geography and spiritual purpose of Stonehenge, blue Stonehenge, AND the upper Avon River, and the villages on the river.
This seems like old old knowledge passed on by a few, now suddenly released out of the blue.
Perhaps even a glimpse of end-of-life health care in Paleolithic times (guessing here): special healing villages located upstream on the Avon where the greatest biodiversity would afford a wide range of herbs, sacred locales, and protected peace.
When someone died they were floated peacefully “down” the river to blue stonhenge and cremated. After some time the ashes were taken “up” to Stonehenge for interment and cosmic release under preplanned stellar alignments. Ritualistically encompassing birth-life-death-rebirth in sacred social geography.
Artists Impression Credit Peter Dunn
Excerpts from 'Blue Stonehenge' discovered
The drawing shows the sensational discovery of “Blue Stonehenge” by a team led by archaeologists from Manchester, Sheffield and Bristol Universities on the West bank of the River Avon last month.
However, the stones, he said, had since been since removed, leaving behind nine uncovered holes. The team believe they were probably part of a circle of 25 standing stones.
The new stone circle is 10m (33 ft) in diameter and was surrounded by a henge - a ditch with an external bank.
The standing stones marked the end of the Avenue that leads from the River Avon to Stonehenge, a 1¾-mile long (2.8km) processional route constructed at the end of the Stone Age - or the Neolithic period.x
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When the newly discovered circle’s stones were removed by Neolithic tribes, they may, according to the team, have been dragged to Stonehenge, to be incorporated within its major rebuilding around 2500 BC.
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The discovery may confirm of the Stonehenge Riverside Project’s theory that the River Avon linked a ‘domain of the living’ - marked by timber circles and houses upstream at the Neolithic village of Durrington Walls (discovered by the Project in 2005) - with a ‘domain of the dead’ marked by Stonehenge and this new stone circle.
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Sheffield University’s Professor Mike Parker Pearson, Director of the project, said: “It could be that Blue Stonehenge was where the dead began their final journey to Stonehenge.
“Not many people know that Stonehenge was Britain’s largest burial ground at that time. Maybe the bluestone circle is where people were cremated before their ashes were buried at Stonehenge itself.”
The University of Manchester’s Professor Julian Thomas, co-director, said: “The implications of this discovery are immense.
“It is compelling evidence that this stretch of the River Avon was central to the religious lives of the people who built Stonehenge.
“Old theories about Stonehenge that do not explain the evident significance of the river will have to be re-thought.”
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Soil that fell into the holes when the stones were removed was full of charcoal, showing that plenty of wood was burned here.
“Yet this was not a place where anyone lived: the pottery, animal bones, food residues and flint tools used in domestic life during the Stone Age were absent.”
The University of Bristol’s Dr Josh Pollard, co-director, explained: “This is an incredible discovery.
“The newly discovered circle and henge should be considered an integral part of Stonehenge rather than a separate monument, and it offers tremendous insight into the history of its famous neighbour.
“Its landscape location demonstrates once again the importance of the River Avon in Neolithic funerary rites and ceremonies.”
