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Related: About this forumStonehenge was built to unify Britain, researchers conclude
Building Stonehenge was a way to unify the people of Stone Age Britain, researchers have concluded.
Teams working on the Stonehenge Riverside Project believe the circle was built after a long period of conflict between east and west Britain.
Researchers also believe the stones, from southern England and west Wales, symbolize different communities.
Prof Mike Parker Pearson said building Stonehenge required everyone "to pull together" in "an act of unification".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-18550513
Lionessa
(3,894 posts)It's a theory, but to say, "Stonehedge was built," instead of "Stonehedge may have been built," is just stupid.
PS not saying OP author is stupid, the article, the idea of such certainty is stupid.
Glad you said it first. Too hot to type.
ashling
(25,771 posts)but BBC found the story too hot not to hype
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Lionessa
(3,894 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)"It's just a theory" always needs the rebuttal about what a theory is and how that's more than just a guess.
This thread, it seems to me, is about something that's just a guess.
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)Gobekli Tepe is more interesting anyways.
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)by a tribe which suddenly for unknown reasons abandoned their settlement in the Orkneys and moved south.
" = feet, right?
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)ever on stage!
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Champion Jack
(5,378 posts)everyone knows it was built by space aliens