What were the Giant Stonehenge Pits Used For? Animal Traps? | Ancient Architects
发布时间 2021-11-24 19:00:32 来源
摘要
In June 2020, it was announced that the largest prehistoric site in Britain had been discovered, and it was located right next to Stonehenge.
The was my video on the discovery: https://youtu.be/yrTUUzE0STY but recently there have been new developments that show that the feature, a 1.2-mile wide ring of deep prehistoric pits, is beyond doubt, a man-made feature of the landscape.
So why the doubt anyway? Well, one archaeologist referred to the pits as blobs on the ground and said that linking them to Stonehenge was entirely hypothetical. Another archaeologist said they were merely natural hollows.
The latest scientific work, which includes remote sensing technology, has looked at 9 of the pits identified and experts note they are all the same, which wouldn’t be the case if they were natural. Sinkholes for example would all be different sizes. Instead, each pit is 10 metres across and 5 metres deep and experts believe they were dug by the same people who created Stonehenge.
But why were these pits dug? Some say they were boundary markers, others say they were dug for human waste and Andrew Collins and Rodney Hale have looked at the idea they are sound resonators.
I suspect there is a more basic explanation and I actually think they were dug to trap animals specifically the mighty aurochs, which we know were feasted on at Durrington Walls, which marks the centre of the circle of pits. Watch this video to learn more.
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Sources:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/nov/23/new-tests-show-neolithic-pits-near-stonehenge-were-humanmade
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/durrington-walls-0013949
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