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Before Stonehenge: Whispers of sanctity from 9,000 years ago

A new study sheds light on the environmental conditions at Stonehenge at the dawn of humanity in Britain, on signs of cultural mixing – and one has to wonder about those weird pink rocks

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Stonehenge Plaques Hold Secret Cultural Data, Says New Study

A new chalk Stonehenge plaque study, using high tech, has rewritten art historians’ views of two-dimensional Neolithic art and the motivations behind it.

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Archaeology: Designs on Stonehenge s chalk plaques depict real objects and NOT abstract patterns

Considered among the most spectacular examples of Prehistoric British engraved chalk, the four plaques were found within three miles of each other in the Stonehenge Area from 1968-2017.

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The Guardian, 2016

1611. King James I investigated Stonehenge to see The stone which the builders refused. King James Version, 1611 1616. Doctor William Harvey, Gilbert North, and Inigo Jones find horns of stags and oxen, coals, charcoals, batter-dashers, heads of arrows, pieces of rusted armour, rotten bones, thuribulum (censer) pottery, and a large nail. Long, William, 1876, Stonehenge and its Barrows. The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, Volume 16 1620. George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, dug a large hole in the ground at the center of Stonehenge looking for buried treasure. (Diary) 1633-52. Inigo Jones conducted the first scientific surveys of Stonehenge. Jones, I, and Webb, J, 1655, The most notable antiquity of Great Britain vulgarly called Stone-Heng on Salisbury plain. London: J Flesher for D Pakeman and L Chapman

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Rare evidence of habitation in Scotland s Cairngorms after end of last Ice Age -- Secret History -- Sott net

These include on the mountain Ben Lawers in Perthshire and at locations in Lanarkshire and Dumfries. © CC Eric Gaba, NordNordWest, Uwe Dedering Map showing the location of CairngormsEvidence for those who lived in Scotland after the end of the last Ice Age about 10,000 years ago can be hard to find, say archaeologists. The population at the time was low and the communities of hunter-gatherers were mobile, moving around and living off the land . They did not build permanent monuments and their homes were usually temporary. © Upper Dee Tributaries Project Stone tools were among the finds made by the team What traces of their lives that can be found often amounts to a handful of tiny stone tools, such as flints, and discoloured soil that hint at an ancient hearth or the stance of a shelter .

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