New Theory: Stonehenge's Stones Were Stilts

[Jazzy]

The mysterious origins of Stonehenge now have a new theory to add to the pile. Past speculations have included it being some sort of astronomical calendar, healing place, or Druid temple, and now an art critic and historian in the United Kingdom contends in a new book that the giant stones were really stilts for a raised, circular platform used for ceremonial worship. Citing pharaohs and emperors whose feet weren't allowed to touch the ground, as well as skyward-reaching temples and places of worship, Julian Spalding (who is not an archaeologist) writes in Realisation: From Seeing to Understanding—The Origins of Art that "the people who built Stonehenge would never have performed celestial ceremonies on the lowly earth."

"It’s a totally different theory which has never been put forward before," he tells the Guardian. "We've been looking at Stonehenge the wrong way: from the earth, which is very much a 20th-century viewpoint. We haven't been thinking about what they were thinking about." Spalding's theory comes on the heels of a major discovery last year that the monument was once a complete circle from which stones have since been lost or removed, reports the Inquisitr.

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Thoughts?

 

[DrLeftover]

I think it was a circular series of drive up windows for take out food.

 

[cali]

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Makes sense, @Jazzy


My interpretation is this. It very well might have been a landing site or elevated platform type of airport in a time period that we humans cannot begin to comprehend. I forget now the historically chronological time periods but sometime after the original usage, it was used for a place if worship in which some of the stones were moved to the nearby monument and each year for approximately 500 years there was a ceremonial type of foot travel between the two sites. The major Stonehenge was also used for some type of burial ground since graves were discovered at the foots of several of the large stones. So it's purpose has changed throughout history but it's mystery is simply amazing

 

[cali]

I think it was a circular series of drive up windows for take out food.

I'll have fries with that please