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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts) Fri Jun 22, 2012, 01:18 PM Jun 2012

Stonehenge 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

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Stonehenge was built to unify Britain, researchers conclude (Original Post) dipsydoodle Jun 2012 OP

Oh my goodness, they have no f'ing idea. No one knows, no one ever will. Lionessa Jun 2012 #1

Yup. aquart Jun 2012 #2

Too hot to type ashling Jun 2012 #8

Seems more like conjecture than theory FiveGoodMen Jun 2012 #4

totally acceptable and better-than-my term. Lionessa Jun 2012 #9

I only bring that up because of the ongoing arguments over evolution FiveGoodMen Jun 2012 #11

Nobody cares. bluedigger Jun 2012 #3

It remains a mystery pokerfan Jun 2012 #5

Its thought to have been built dipsydoodle Jun 2012 #6

18" FiveGoodMen Jun 2012 #10

Best production value pokerfan Jun 2012 #12

Stonehenge was before the Celtic peoples arives in Britain. Odin2005 Jun 2012 #14

obvious cover up Champion Jack Jun 2012 #7

As long as they're just going to make it up, I find the Merlin stories more entertaining. Vidar Jun 2012 #13

Lionessa

(3,894 posts)

1. Oh my goodness, they have no f'ing idea. No one knows, no one ever will.

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Fri Jun 22, 2012, 01:36 PM

Jun 2012

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.

aquart

(69,014 posts)

2. Yup.

Reply to Lionessa (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 22, 2012, 01:38 PM

Jun 2012

Glad you said it first. Too hot to type.

ashling

(25,771 posts)

8. Too hot to type

Reply to aquart (Reply #2)

Fri Jun 22, 2012, 02:34 PM

Jun 2012

but BBC found the story too hot not to hype

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)

4. Seems more like conjecture than theory

Reply to Lionessa (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 22, 2012, 01:46 PM

Jun 2012

Lionessa

(3,894 posts)

9. totally acceptable and better-than-my term.

Reply to FiveGoodMen (Reply #4)

Fri Jun 22, 2012, 03:34 PM

Jun 2012

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)

11. I only bring that up because of the ongoing arguments over evolution

Reply to Lionessa (Reply #9)

Fri Jun 22, 2012, 03:50 PM

Jun 2012

"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)

3. Nobody cares.

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Fri Jun 22, 2012, 01:41 PM

Jun 2012

Gobekli Tepe is more interesting anyways.

pokerfan

(27,677 posts)

5. It remains a mystery

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Fri Jun 22, 2012, 02:08 PM

Jun 2012

"In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, lived a strange race of people - the druids. No one knows who they were, or what they were doing, but their legacy remains, hewn into the living rock - of Stonehenge."