What's up with Stonehenges all across Europe?They are in Russia, Ukraine, Germany and Norway, and the British isles.
from what I understand it was a form of protection. They were a demonstration of the working men's strength and organization in the community. A village with big, well organized stone sculptures is less likely to be attacked.
>>18431204I'm reading a book called "Pagan Britain" right now and it talks a lot about Neolithic culture. Tl;dr is it's complicated and we can kind of only guess. A lot are connected to the cycles of the sun or the moon.
>>18431259Ronald "Tom Bombadil" Hutton is an OG. I like this time in Europe. Late prehistory: 6000 bc to early middle ages in the northern parts. I imagine all the heroes and kings that rose and fell, the languages spoken and the gods worshipped. It's like the barrow-downs from LOTR but IRL. Also Jethro Tull songs.From what I understand megalithic culture spread up the atlantic from the Iberian peninsula, which I think is funny because I don't associate these with a mediterranean climate. The oldest one we know of is the almendres cromlech in Portugal from 6000 BC.It seems like a religious tradition spread with them. there were a few phases. First the long barrow tradition, then the monolith and cromlech tradition, then the individual barrow tradition that spread with Indo-European steppenigging
>>18431247Stonehenge has been aligned with summer solstice and winter solstice I am sure with some measurements between the two solstaces the equinoxes can be found and marked tooIf I owned some land in the desert with plenty of rocks I would buy some Portland cement and use some rock to build my own smaller Stonehenge calendar just for educational purposes
>>18431247It's a moggy mog world. Likely it was that, in regions where there was dispute over territory with less capable builders, like nomadic hunters. >>18431305Some engineer or construction worker in like Michigan or something in the US did this.
>>18431310My favoritehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CarhengeOthershttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge_replicas_and_derivatives
>>18431204They're neat.
>>18431296The boomer lady who sold me the book said that she liked him. It's pretty remarkable that in the Neolithic they were barely one step above cavemen without writing and yet still had pan-European trends and fashions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorset_CursusOr things like this. Thousands upon thousands of hours spent doing things that we can't figure out a discernible reason for. Vgh...
>>18431204It would be an interesting project to build a modern precise solstaces & equinoxes aligned Stonehenge style calendar and right beside it a solar sundial clock
>>18431779>barely one step above cavemen
What's stopping you from getting the boys together of a saturday and building a sick stone circle? We need to RETVRN
>>18431247This sounds like bullshit a sheltered graduate student would come up with.
>>18432109I'd add the megacities (some with 20k-40k inhabitants) of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture in the region of Romania and Ukraine to the great achievements of Neolithic people. This northern prong of EEF expansion (1km/year overland for a couple of thousand years until they reached the Atlantic) didn't build quite as many henges as the faster-speading Mediterranean route's island-hopping coastal farmers that eventually populated Britain, but they did reach an impressive population density on the lower reaches of the Dniester until the Neolithic demographic collapse.
>>18431204>>18431247>>18431259Northern Europes equivalent to the Nile Delta doesn't exist anymore, and the "upper" parts of this old river is a disappointing pile of gravel whose only notable still-standing plausible geographic feature is the sand-bank closing off kaliningrad.Doggerbank was this rivers equivalent to the Nile's elephantine island
