Can't go visit anywhere just yet due to the virus, but in the mean time I've been enjoying reading about all the amazing new discoveries in archaeology. Let me know what you think in the comments!
I've given up on a bunch of your videos now. I start because you have interesting topics. I stop because you give the most incredibly boring presentations.
Pete your presentations are anything but boring. You are meticulous brilliant and dynamic. I adore you and everything you do and I'm very grateful. Don't worry about stupid rude thankless extremely boring know nothing trolls.
History is so interesting, I hope we never stop searching for answers though we most possibly never get a solid truth. What scares me is those people who want to change the known facts about the recent history we already have for beneficial political reasons.
@Delta Fox Aye, with only two reports. Makes you wonder about the Venezuelan high rate of death by firearms really. Gotta wonder how many people's COD is listed as "slipped, and fell on a bullet".
Thanks for the updates. It’s exciting what info is finally coming out from the LidarxGPS mappings years ago, now that people have had a little time to do ground work. It’s a great reminder than there’s always more to learn
Just to the right of Stonehenge on the map at 1:05 and elsewhere in the video, the dots, which appear to be mounds or barrows, show a clear star map of the Pleiades. I would be interested to know if the other mound and barrow positions in the broader landscape also show star constellations or perhaps a sky map. I am from South Africa so I do not know all the northern hemisphere constellations. As above, so below?
You do a nice job of clearly explaining the sites you cover. Your pace is good, clear and even. You explain the past research and neatly introduce new material. You don't veer off into wild theories which are not based in research, but you make it clear that theories about these sites continue to evolve. Keep it up!
As someone who lives in the Avebury area, I was pleased to find out new facts about the wider landscape. Liked, subscribed and looking forward to viewing more from this channel.
Jörg Westermann I am from northern Germany, now living in Australia; apparently I have the same (ancient) DNA as a skeleton found on England’s south coast. Amazing.
Wow .. I grew in a house literally right up inside this shaft opposite Durrington Walls !! .. love learning this . Currently watching this in india where I now live . How cool .
15 minutes drive from the village where I grew up. It used to be open access a long time ago. You could just park up in the car park then across the road and walk into the field where they are and walk around them. Trouble was people kept chipping bits off the stones and deep grooves were appearing where so many walked the same route damaging the area around the stones. So it was fenced off and entry was controlled (it was still free) then an admission fee was introduced. Then they stopped parking on another road from where you could take photos. Then they closed off the road leading to the visitor car park to non visitor traffic. Then they opened up the fancy visitor centre with cafe and shop of course and the admission fees have shot up. Avebury is much prettier
I once wrote a poem in which I said "They went to Stonehenge, and they saw stones". I worked at London's Natural History Museum for nine years. I made a study of their Stonehenge model, that used to be on display. I saw fairly quickly some of its functionality that had nothing to do with solstices. It was a radionic machine, and the model was even functioning on the gallery, even though it was not accurately aligned. First of all it WAS NOT a Sun temple, it was an Earth Goddess temple. In its later stages it had three concentric circles that I counted around - there were 56 Aubrey holes, 30 Sarsens and 44 blue stones inside the Sarsen ring. 56 is 8x7, 30 sarsens - 15 on each side, that is 7+8 on each side. The 44 blue stones, 22 on each side, that is 7+7+8. 7 is a number associated with The Earth, 8 is associated with The Sun. The subtle radionic energies coming from slightly north of east came from The Sun TO The Earth. The five trilithons formed (when it was complete) a 'Mudra' or hand sign. Hold your palm upwards and draw the fingers upwards to form a claw, moving the thumb slightly towards the first finger - that is how the trilithons were arranged. If you put posts in the Aubrey holes, and joined every one to every one with ropes it would draw a seven pointed star. The Sarsens sit on the internal cross points and the trilithons are very close to five of the seven sides of the central heptagon. Maybe that is how they positioned the stones? The sarsen circle was a lense that steered the energy flows between the trilithons, which in turn pulled those energies down into the ground. There is more but already this is long, so see what anyone can make of this?
“People from across the sea” entered Britain? Uh.. Doggerland anyone? 500 000 to 4000 BC, the British Isles were connected to the mainland, or am I wrong on this?
Clearly there is "purpose" to these "monuments". Not just one little thing added to another. Hope it can be figured out! How much could we learn, even about ourselves?🤔
For nomadic people (everybody pre10,1000BC) encountering monoliths would've been a polite warning not to hunt/graze/gather here. Nomads used quern stones, but standing stones went hand in hand with millstones and settlement.
When I read the article online; because I am an archaeology student with Timothy Darvill one of the guys that is big on Stonehenge, and it was on our group chat i nearly wet myself laughing, that it was such an achievement to discover ancient people could count 😂😂. Obviously they could, sometimes us archaeologists are waaay to arrogant. Personally I think the Neolithic was a very advanced civilisation, no primitives at all, clearly more intelligent than us who can't rival there achievements. A massive issue with archaeology is the Darwinist evolution but applied to cultures, it is utter hogwash to me it seems like in Neolithic Britain, Egypt and Tiwanaku we get more advanced the further back we go. Also dating sciences like Typology are inaccurate for when we have little written records, typology is when more advanced material culture is assumed to be later than "primitive" material culture. For instance Roman pottery is better made than Saxon pottery, but Roman pottery is earlier not later than Saxon pottery. Also historical events like the Bronze Age collapse and the Dark Ages in Europe show how easy it is for Civilisation to flourish then collapse. This could easily have happened before and no readible writing has survived. Dont even get me started on how temperatures were higher in the Neolithic than today and Doggerland 😂
I hope more will come to their senses and understand how clever and advanced these early Neolithic "primitive" people were. As for the earliest known form of writing, I wonder if you are aware of the Tărtăria tablets discovered in 1961 in Transylvania. It is still very much debated but that's the beauty of it specially when one is going to be an archaelogist. By the way, if the tablets had been found some decades earlier they would have been called the 'Alsótatárlaka tablets' and it could have been more convenient to examine them. For some reason the leader of the archaelogists who found the tablets Nicolae Vlassa was never willing to discuss the circumstances of the find or the stratigraphy. That is another issue...
@@miklosdavid7627 And that is to assume that writing was even a form of progression to begin with. Oral tradition was a powerful one, and allowed the reciting abilities of our forebears to span incredible lengths of poems and ancestral lines. The transfer of a human ability into an external technology takes its toll on the intelligence of the peoples. Most archaeologists couldn't even tell you what they had for dinner last night (I jest, of course), yet maintain that certain things were 'impossible for their time'.
I was able to visit the wood henge, Stonehenge and walk the stones at Avebury in the late 80s. They were magnificent and intriguing. I especially loved Avebury because you could still get close to the stones as opposed to Stonehenge (due sadly to vandalism). I’m glad to hear that research is still ongoing. Thank you for a fascinating video.
I spent some of my army days near Salisbury, a year at Bulford camp, near Durringtom and 6 weeks course at Larkhill camp. From my barrackroom window at Larkhill I could see Stonehenge at about 2 miles off.
We've spent years wondering how they managed to drag those stones all that way right,,,well, could it be possible that some of the trenchwork found is actually remnants of an old canal network used to float them in??
When some monuments are taken down, it's not meant to change or forget history. Instead it is to no longer honor people or situations that shouldn't have been honored to begin with.
@@wendyeames5758 what exactly qualifies you to decide that millions of people over generations were wrong, and now suddenly you appear with all this new overwhelming truth? Is it possible they knew or valued something you don't?
No, it will not change history...but apparently it's an antidote to systemic racism. Ah but were happy then, and we had nothing....because we were poor...anybody?
Does this new monument affect Stonehenge? I see the circle misses it, but it puts a different layout to the landscape. I know the Stonehenge avenue is laid out, but I always thought it is set funny in the landscape. Perhaps this newly discovered monument may go a ways to explaining that.
Looking at the relative placement and it’s precision, possible astronomic alignments and the idea of the ‘megalithic yard I wonder if they had knowledge of more sophisticated geometry which included equivalents to Pi etc. It’s hard to imagine doing all this by pacing alone. I also wonder if some of the features had a more practical purpose we haven’t fathomed related to agriculture or production of leather, pottery etc. The biggest thing for me was that the area must have at various time had quite large population centres and must have been bustling with activity. It will be hard to put the picture together and separate the sacred from the practical.
If only we could find some writing by an ancient visitor to give us some more insight into the way our ancestors thought. Guessing is okay, I suppose. But I would love to KNOW.
I hate it when "experts" declare "they did X because they believed Y" - how do they know what ancient peoples believed, or how they thought, or how they saw their world and their place in it? Answer, they don't. They're just guessing, same as the rest of us.
Veronica Cawelti. Shamanism and respecting ancestral spirits, beliefs destroyed by the enforced introduction of christianity. The builders of the Neolithic monuments designed these with inbuilt astronomical orientations, the observation of key dates in the annual cycle was already practised in the ice age. Much is KNOWN about stone circles, have a look at recent research?
Just a thought, could they have moved the stones only in the winter, over ice and snow? Sleds were used then, and it would have freed up time for crops n summer. Just a thought.
Hello Pete: Perhaps these were mining pits for copper, aligned in a manner in keeping with contemporary superstitions about where the mineral could be found. ?
I can't help but look at the aerial views of the sites (highlighted in red and white colors) and think about the Large Hadron Collider. Given the piezoelectric effects existence, could those people living in 4000 - 3000BC have developed some primitive form of accelerator and, given one of the theories of what the LHC can accomplish is the opening of door ways to other dimensions, could this have been a source for the mythology surrounding Stonehenge's use as some form of "Star Gate" for space of inter-dimensional travel?
Hi there Pete great stuff once again! If you could i'm left wondering about two things: 1- Were these shafts like actual wooden or stone posts? if so, do you think the stones were just removed? or were these just holes of cylindrical shape to start with? 2- Why do you think these animals predate those who buried them by generations? Cheers mate
So back in the day we used to go on school trips to Stone Henge, play on them and eat our pack lunches of them. Two years ago I went back to the UK with my wife and guess what? We had to stand behind a perimeter fence. I wish she had an opportunity to get closer to them.
I live with in Milton Keynes and a lot of roads , houses or offices share names from Salisbury and the surrounding areas. When I first visited Salisbury I had a feeling of “coming home” . I was wondering is there a link between Milton Keynes and Salisbury?
They were just discovered somewhat recently, I don't think anybody has dug into them yet. Unfortunately with covid still going on, it's probably not a priority. I'm so excited to see what's in them
The map shows it took over 5,000 years for Anatolians, their descendants or their culture to even reach Northern France yet the video gives the impression they just turned up one day in Britain and started building henges.
when you show "the entire stonehenge map" at 49 seconds, it looks like a giant star/constellation map........................................just sayin...lol...........................................many love, much props
5:24 looks like star constellations to me, albeit might of been seen, interpreted and named differently to them but none the less they are there. On left under the large "The Cursus" you can clearly see the little dipper.
So you enjoyed a piece of free content and then complain because the creator attempted to recoup some of his lost time and energy? Fascinating. Curiously, do you want videos like this to exist?
Did I miss this in your presentation? What's the diameter of the Durrington Shafts circle? It's hard to tell from the plots presented, but it looks like about a mile and a half.
The most positive thing I can say about this video is the the word *_"maybe"_* is used a lot. No one can know for sure what was going on and what people were thinking in prehistoric times. I suggest for each and everyone to consider the facts only and think for them selves about why and how. The more facts you gather from various locations *_and sources,_* the closer to reality you're likely to get, and remember that any explanation given is just someones interpretation of the evidence at hand
Just occurred to me that while we think of this being done by a people, they must have had ingenuous individuals with an intellectual hierarchy and transfer of knowledge.
Thanks ,so interesting there’s so much more and I think there is even bigger things to discover definitely I think this is only just the , Tip of the things that is already known to date . Thank you for covering this amazing historical moment with us all and please keep up all your heard work as there’s so much out here for us to learn about past centuries that we really have no idea about as three always something different turning up as times go on and there’s been so much hidden history that only over these last few year’s that more facts have proven that most historians believe everything that we think we new is actually very different to what actually happened ,with all the technology today things are beginning to be unveiled .
Luke Bogacik They were standing pretty much as they are now 100 years ago, if you go on English heritages own site you can see a foto from 1906, taken from a balloon and it is pretty much as it is now. There was a large campaign of excavation, stabilisation and to erect a few fallen stones to their original position in 1950 and 1964.
It has been shown by DNA analysis that the "wave" of farmers displacing hunter-gatherers is not accurate. What traveled was the idea of farming, not the people. See Bryan Sykes's work on this.
So even after a year or so after first watching this. I think that this needs said. Excellent documentary presentation btw. So after first hearing the news of the 1901, 1919 and 1958 rebuilds of the Stonehenge site for “apparent excavation” were altered and repositioned over the top of back filled concrete. Which ended up filling many of these shafts mentioned here. That’s the “modern development” - just shows what we are told and what we are not. I have the same views on the sphynx excavations. I’ll link the aforementioned vids below
There were more “development plans” for a tunnel leading right through the site that’s now been cancelled again because of public outcry but I think it was all another reuse for potentially another scavenger hunt of the site - but it worked in their favour anyway because if you search for Stonehenge tunnels now all you get is a sea of results about news on the motorway they were wanting to plan instead of videos like this exposing what is so much closer to the truth than we have previously been told
Great to realise there's so much to learn. Don't really have the lie of the land in the UK - is this stuff connected with the Uffington White horses or am I way off
Can't go visit anywhere just yet due to the virus, but in the mean time I've been enjoying reading about all the amazing new discoveries in archaeology. Let me know what you think in the comments!
I've given up on a bunch of your videos now. I start because you have interesting topics. I stop because you give the most incredibly boring presentations.
Pete your presentations are anything but boring. You are meticulous brilliant and dynamic. I adore you and everything you do and I'm very grateful. Don't worry about stupid rude thankless extremely boring know nothing trolls.
actually you can go anywhere you want,, because no one is there to bust you..wink wink
@@conspiracyphreakphreaka6082 Finally someone who hasn't fell for the biggest lie ever perpetrated on mankind
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History is so interesting, I hope we never stop searching for answers though we most possibly never get a solid truth.
What scares me is those people who want to change the known facts about the recent history we already have for beneficial political reasons.
@Delta Fox Aye, with only two reports. Makes you wonder about the Venezuelan high rate of death by firearms really.
Gotta wonder how many people's COD is listed as "slipped, and fell on a bullet".
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Mundo nadie sabe una vergüenza lo que dicen de este monumento soy ing civil de la UNNE CHACO ARGENTINA
Thanks for the updates. It’s exciting what info is finally coming out from the LidarxGPS mappings years ago, now that people have had a little time to do ground work. It’s a great reminder than there’s always more to learn
Just to the right of Stonehenge on the map at 1:05 and elsewhere in the video, the dots, which appear to be mounds or barrows, show a clear star map of the Pleiades. I would be interested to know if the other mound and barrow positions in the broader landscape also show star constellations or perhaps a sky map. I am from South Africa so I do not know all the northern hemisphere constellations. As above, so below?
Well done, giving full background on Stonehenge and environs helped understand the significance of the recent discovery.
You do a nice job of clearly explaining the sites you cover. Your pace is good, clear and even. You explain the past research and neatly introduce new material. You don't veer off into wild theories which are not based in research, but you make it clear that theories about these sites continue to evolve. Keep it up!
As someone who lives in the Avebury area, I was pleased to find out new facts about the wider landscape. Liked, subscribed and looking forward to viewing more from this channel.
Amazing, I was not expecting any new major archeological discoveries in such a well and long known site as the Stonehenge.
Lol
Nothing in this video is new. the carbon dating results just confirm what was already know. and the sites themselves have been known for decades.
This has absolutely nothing to do with Stonehenge.
Awesome. Very well done👍👍👍Greetings from the North of Germany😎✌
Jörg Westermann I am from northern Germany, now living in Australia; apparently I have the same (ancient) DNA as a skeleton found on England’s south coast. Amazing.
@@gudrunschuck7290 This is really amazing👍👍👍All the best😎✌✌
Wow .. I grew in a house literally right up inside this shaft opposite Durrington Walls !! .. love learning this . Currently watching this in india where I now live . How cool .
A great addition to the ongoing mystery of Stonehenge. Thanks.
Awesome, saw the news of the massive post hole ring today!
I can't believe I'm just now discovering your channel! This is good stuff! Thanks!
As intriguing as ever! Brings back happy memories of being able to walk inside the circle in the early 80s.
15 minutes drive from the village where I grew up. It used to be open access a long time ago. You could just park up in the car park then across the road and walk into the field where they are and walk around them. Trouble was people kept chipping bits off the stones and deep grooves were appearing where so many walked the same route damaging the area around the stones. So it was fenced off and entry was controlled (it was still free) then an admission fee was introduced. Then they stopped parking on another road from where you could take photos. Then they closed off the road leading to the visitor car park to non visitor traffic. Then they opened up the fancy visitor centre with cafe and shop of course and the admission fees have shot up.
Avebury is much prettier
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Absolutely a phenomenal video! Loved it thank you.
I once wrote a poem in which I said "They went to Stonehenge, and they saw stones". I worked at London's Natural History Museum for nine years. I made a study of their Stonehenge model, that used to be on display. I saw fairly quickly some of its functionality that had nothing to do with solstices. It was a radionic machine, and the model was even functioning on the gallery, even though it was not accurately aligned. First of all it WAS NOT a Sun temple, it was an Earth Goddess temple. In its later stages it had three concentric circles that I counted around - there were 56 Aubrey holes, 30 Sarsens and 44 blue stones inside the Sarsen ring. 56 is 8x7, 30 sarsens - 15 on each side, that is 7+8 on each side. The 44 blue stones, 22 on each side, that is 7+7+8. 7 is a number associated with The Earth, 8 is associated with The Sun. The subtle radionic energies coming from slightly north of east came from The Sun TO The Earth. The five trilithons formed (when it was complete) a 'Mudra' or hand sign. Hold your palm upwards and draw the fingers upwards to form a claw, moving the thumb slightly towards the first finger - that is how the trilithons were arranged. If you put posts in the Aubrey holes, and joined every one to every one with ropes it would draw a seven pointed star. The Sarsens sit on the internal cross points and the trilithons are very close to five of the seven sides of the central heptagon. Maybe that is how they positioned the stones? The sarsen circle was a lense that steered the energy flows between the trilithons, which in turn pulled those energies down into the ground. There is more but already this is long, so see what anyone can make of this?
Yeah and the tooth fairy aswell 😂
In 1974 at midnight we went to the center of the monument and heard a subtle buzzing.
“People from across the sea” entered Britain? Uh.. Doggerland anyone? 500 000 to 4000 BC, the British Isles were connected to the mainland, or am I wrong on this?
You mean 6000 BC. Here’s a 50 minute documentary I made on Doggerland back in January :-
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@@PeteKellyHistory As far as I know , we were connected to Europe until 3,000 years ago.
Britain became an island by 6000bc roughly
@@stephengent9974 3,000 years ago is 1000 BC Bruh :)
this land was not the British isles over 1000 years ago , empire ! roman ! the land was called the Anglo Isle .
Clearly there is "purpose" to these "monuments". Not just one little thing added to another. Hope it can be figured out! How much could we learn, even about ourselves?🤔
For nomadic people (everybody pre10,1000BC) encountering monoliths would've been a polite warning not to hunt/graze/gather here. Nomads used quern stones, but standing stones went hand in hand with millstones and settlement.
Interesting presentation. Certainly gives one food for thought. Much speculation which. in truth, is required. Thanks.👍👀👀👀👍
When I read the article online; because I am an archaeology student with Timothy Darvill one of the guys that is big on Stonehenge, and it was on our group chat i nearly wet myself laughing, that it was such an achievement to discover ancient people could count 😂😂. Obviously they could, sometimes us archaeologists are waaay to arrogant. Personally I think the Neolithic was a very advanced civilisation, no primitives at all, clearly more intelligent than us who can't rival there achievements. A massive issue with archaeology is the Darwinist evolution but applied to cultures, it is utter hogwash to me it seems like in Neolithic Britain, Egypt and Tiwanaku we get more advanced the further back we go. Also dating sciences like Typology are inaccurate for when we have little written records, typology is when more advanced material culture is assumed to be later than "primitive" material culture. For instance Roman pottery is better made than Saxon pottery, but Roman pottery is earlier not later than Saxon pottery. Also historical events like the Bronze Age collapse and the Dark Ages in Europe show how easy it is for Civilisation to flourish then collapse. This could easily have happened before and no readible writing has survived. Dont even get me started on how temperatures were higher in the Neolithic than today and Doggerland 😂
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I hope more will come to their senses and understand how clever and advanced these early Neolithic "primitive" people were.
As for the earliest known form of writing, I wonder if you are aware of the Tărtăria tablets discovered in 1961 in Transylvania. It is still very much debated but that's the beauty of it specially when one is going to be an archaelogist.
By the way, if the tablets had been found some decades earlier they would have been called the 'Alsótatárlaka tablets' and it could have been more convenient to examine them. For some reason the leader of the archaelogists who found the tablets Nicolae Vlassa was never willing to discuss the circumstances of the find or the stratigraphy. That is another issue...
True, this speaker is such an idiot.
@@miklosdavid7627 And that is to assume that writing was even a form of progression to begin with. Oral tradition was a powerful one, and allowed the reciting abilities of our forebears to span incredible lengths of poems and ancestral lines. The transfer of a human ability into an external technology takes its toll on the intelligence of the peoples. Most archaeologists couldn't even tell you what they had for dinner last night (I jest, of course), yet maintain that certain things were 'impossible for their time'.
What was the average age at death of these advanced people of whom you speak?
I can't hear of Stonehenge any longer without hearing Spinal Tap.
"You've built a replica of Stonehenge that can be "Trod Upon by a Drawf!""
Could the outer ring poles had been used to help align the large stones with the stars?
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Any chance those holes could be for water storage?
I was able to visit the wood henge, Stonehenge and walk the stones at Avebury in the late 80s. They were magnificent and intriguing. I especially loved Avebury because you could still get close to the stones as opposed to Stonehenge (due sadly to vandalism). I’m glad to hear that research is still ongoing. Thank you for a fascinating video.
I spent some of my army days near Salisbury, a year at Bulford camp, near Durringtom and 6 weeks course at Larkhill camp. From my barrackroom window at Larkhill I could see Stonehenge at about 2 miles off.
Those very same perched slab constructions can be found as far south as the Region of Apulia, in Italy.
That’s very interesting. Perhaps Peter could do an overview on that.
I always wondered why Stonehenge would be so popular, even in the stone age, if there were these circles everywhere.
We've spent years wondering how they managed to drag those stones all that way right,,,well, could it be possible that some of the trenchwork found is actually remnants of an old canal network used to float them in??
I would listen just to hear your voice and articulation. Beautiful !
Tearing down monuments doesn't change history.
Keith Staton are you being ironic?
When some monuments are taken down, it's not meant to change or forget history. Instead it is to no longer honor people or situations that shouldn't have been honored to begin with.
@@wendyeames5758 what exactly qualifies you to decide that millions of people over generations were wrong, and now suddenly you appear with all this new overwhelming truth? Is it possible they knew or valued something you don't?
@@wendyeames5758 We know very little about history....all is a guess game...and always the winners get to tell it.
No, it will not change history...but apparently it's an antidote to systemic racism. Ah but were happy then, and we had nothing....because we were poor...anybody?
11:57 Isn’t it more likely that Stonehenge was connected to the winter, not summer solstice?
Yep.
Vatican inversion my mate😜
Jon. To both, it works both ways!
Most likely. As a celebration to the coming summer, good for farming and such.
not so fun dancing around the stones in your pants in winter
Does this new monument affect Stonehenge? I see the circle misses it, but it puts a different layout to the landscape. I know the Stonehenge avenue is laid out, but I always thought it is set funny in the landscape. Perhaps this newly discovered monument may go a ways to explaining that.
Looking at the relative placement and it’s precision, possible astronomic alignments and the idea of the ‘megalithic yard I wonder if they had knowledge of more sophisticated geometry which included equivalents to Pi etc. It’s hard to imagine doing all this by pacing alone. I also wonder if some of the features had a more practical purpose we haven’t fathomed related to agriculture or production of leather, pottery etc. The biggest thing for me was that the area must have at various time had quite large population centres and must have been bustling with activity. It will be hard to put the picture together and separate the sacred from the practical.
Very good show. Thank you.
If only we could find some writing by an ancient visitor to give us some more insight into the way our ancestors thought. Guessing is okay, I suppose. But I would love to KNOW.
I hate it when "experts" declare "they did X because they believed Y" - how do they know what ancient peoples believed, or how they thought, or how they saw their world and their place in it?
Answer, they don't. They're just guessing, same as the rest of us.
@Milton Hackett - why wouldn't they tell us the truth?
@Milton Hackett - nope.
@Milton Hackett Wows what an awesome way of convincing some one you weren't just talking out of your ass..
Veronica Cawelti. Shamanism and respecting ancestral spirits, beliefs destroyed by the enforced introduction of christianity. The builders of the Neolithic monuments designed these with inbuilt astronomical orientations, the observation of key dates in the annual cycle was already practised in the ice age. Much is KNOWN about stone circles, have a look at recent research?
yet another fantastic video, great job mate.
Just a thought, could they have moved the stones only in the winter, over ice and snow? Sleds were used then, and it would have freed up time for crops n summer. Just a thought.
Hello Pete:
Perhaps these were mining pits for copper, aligned in a manner in keeping with contemporary superstitions about where the mineral could be found. ?
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Very interesting and thought-provoking.
Thank you for your videos, I enjoy them so much! I have learned much from you.
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I can't help but look at the aerial views of the sites (highlighted in red and white colors) and think about the Large Hadron Collider. Given the piezoelectric effects existence, could those people living in 4000 - 3000BC have developed some primitive form of accelerator and, given one of the theories of what the LHC can accomplish is the opening of door ways to other dimensions, could this have been a source for the mythology surrounding Stonehenge's use as some form of "Star Gate" for space of inter-dimensional travel?
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Hi there Pete great stuff once again! If you could i'm left wondering about two things:
1- Were these shafts like actual wooden or stone posts? if so, do you think the stones were just removed? or were these just holes of cylindrical shape to start with?
2- Why do you think these animals predate those who buried them by generations?
Cheers mate
So back in the day we used to go on school trips to Stone Henge, play on them and eat our pack lunches of them. Two years ago I went back to the UK with my wife and guess what? We had to stand behind a perimeter fence. I wish she had an opportunity to get closer to them.
Looks like they found the ancient Particle accelerator and landing strip...
Yep, beam me up, Scotty!!!!
Aliens! No other explination
Wow
@@iBlagg8 Giants did exist.
Ppl forget that.
I live with in Milton Keynes and a lot of roads , houses or offices share names from Salisbury and the surrounding areas. When I first visited Salisbury I had a feeling of “coming home” . I was wondering is there a link between Milton Keynes and Salisbury?
Thank you so much for sharing ✌💖
No footage from this shafts ? That's why I came here in the first place ...
This contradicts a lot of what others have said.
The video said that they were discovered by radar...that doesn’t require much actual digging to learn about the structure
They were just discovered somewhat recently, I don't think anybody has dug into them yet. Unfortunately with covid still going on, it's probably not a priority. I'm so excited to see what's in them
Its not at stonehenge, its around durrington walls a few miles upstream on the avon.
That whole area is now known to be on a huge sacred landscape. I was there in the summer of 1967 before much of it had been discovered.
Wish I could see these people face to face and talk to them. Wonder what language they spoke, what they looked like, what they thought.
Is there connectivity to Gobekli Tepe under this hypothesis?
Timing is impeccable.... know who built these structures!
Cool video. Very interesting.
The map shows it took over 5,000 years for Anatolians, their descendants or their culture to even reach Northern France yet the video gives the impression they just turned up one day in Britain and started building henges.
Have they identified the source of the limestone and earth used to construct silbury Hill. Big hole somewhere?
Near Marlborough
Great team work
2:39 What do you mean by "These people?"
Mesolithics ones
Great video, thanks
when you show "the entire stonehenge map" at 49 seconds, it looks like a giant star/constellation map........................................just sayin...lol...........................................many love, much props
oh, and, awesome channel........glad i found you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So fascinating thank you
Thank you for this upload, excellent as always. I wonder what the late great Aubrey Burl would make of this new discovery?
5:24 looks like star constellations to me, albeit might of been seen, interpreted and named differently to them but none the less they are there. On left under the large "The Cursus" you can clearly see the little dipper.
As above so below a common theme in ancient monoliths e.g. pyramids of giza
Any possibility that these mysteriously huge shafts had a merely prosaic use as water storage for agricultural irrigation or for flood control?
Wow 🤩
Great video but couldn't watch to the end because there were too many adverts.
So you enjoyed a piece of free content and then complain because the creator attempted to recoup some of his lost time and energy? Fascinating. Curiously, do you want videos like this to exist?
Do this: scroll all the way to the end, let it play out and then replay... there, watch again with no ads...
Did I miss this in your presentation? What's the diameter of the Durrington Shafts circle? It's hard to tell from the plots presented, but it looks like about a mile and a half.
Fascinating, thank you for sharing.
The most positive thing I can say about this video is the the word *_"maybe"_* is used a lot.
No one can know for sure what was going on and what people were thinking in prehistoric times. I suggest for each and everyone to consider the facts only and think for them selves about why and how. The more facts you gather from various locations *_and sources,_* the closer to reality you're likely to get, and remember that any explanation given is just someones interpretation of the evidence at hand
When history, geometry, and mystery all meet.
I believe they are inverted silo's for grain, just a hunch. Stonehenge was probably a commune, a palisade for protection.
I just heard something about this recent find coincidentally..... Thanks for explaining it very well.......
Why you think it is a coincidence?
Oh for a time machine! What an amazing place
i'm excited.thank you.
Dr. Lokye and team life changing
Just occurred to me that while we think of this being done by a people, they must have had ingenuous individuals with an intellectual hierarchy and transfer of knowledge.
Thanks ,so interesting there’s so much more and I think there is even bigger things to discover definitely I think this is only just the ,
Tip of the things that is already known to date .
Thank you for covering this amazing historical moment with us all and please keep up all your heard work as there’s so much out here for us to learn about past centuries that we really have no idea about as three always something different turning up as times go on and there’s been so much hidden history that only over these last few year’s that more facts have proven that most historians believe everything that we think we new is actually very different to what actually happened ,with all the technology today things are beginning to be unveiled .
Nice presentation.
You gotta take a drink every time he says "Perhaps". :-)
What year did they restore Stonehenge? I’m pretty sure a number of stones were not standing 100 years ago....
Luke Bogacik They were standing pretty much as they are now 100 years ago, if you go on English heritages own site you can see a foto from 1906, taken from a balloon and it is pretty much as it is now. There was a large campaign of excavation, stabilisation and to erect a few fallen stones to their original position in 1950 and 1964.
Well now I feel I should go dig something up .thanks great story
Mr.moore thank you for share.... sir
Whereas Salisbury Plain certainly is impressive, my opinion is that the Orkney Islands is the most impressive site in Britain.
It was a place of worship and it was a holly site dedicated to the stars.
Incredible
Was there in 2012 so interested in history. Pity they could not record in those days.
Pete please do something about Zealandia!
Has this area been scanned? Consider its timescale ?,must be underground ruins?
How did they know that skeleton was a coppersmith? Btw these are really interesting, where can I read more?
It has been shown by DNA analysis that the "wave" of farmers displacing hunter-gatherers is not accurate. What traveled was the idea of farming, not the people. See Bryan Sykes's work on this.
It proved brits are on average 18% middle eastern.
@@_robustus_ any white person with dark hair or eyes has some middle eastern in them. that is where the trait comes from
So even after a year or so after first watching this. I think that this needs said. Excellent documentary presentation btw. So after first hearing the news of the 1901, 1919 and 1958 rebuilds of the Stonehenge site for “apparent excavation” were altered and repositioned over the top of back filled concrete. Which ended up filling many of these shafts mentioned here. That’s the “modern development” - just shows what we are told and what we are not. I have the same views on the sphynx excavations. I’ll link the aforementioned vids below
1919 rebuild (incorrectly labelled) ruclips.net/video/HlRsgG2yoZw/видео.html
A closer look at the rebuild
ruclips.net/video/IzTTaGfkY6s/видео.html
There were more “development plans” for a tunnel leading right through the site that’s now been cancelled again because of public outcry but I think it was all another reuse for potentially another scavenger hunt of the site - but it worked in their favour anyway because if you search for Stonehenge tunnels now all you get is a sea of results about news on the motorway they were wanting to plan instead of videos like this exposing what is so much closer to the truth than we have previously been told
Great to realise there's so much to learn. Don't really have the lie of the land in the UK - is this stuff connected with the Uffington White horses or am I way off
Wonderful, really interesting.
Amazing.
Pete, Did this channel used to be called “Archaeology News”?
No