why didnt they convert this into a christian site and carve crosses into the stones and shit like that
It’s literally a big pile of rocks.
it probably had been abandoned by like 10k years by the time christ died
>>18543059It was too far out of the way. christians were city slickers that mocked people for being country bumpkins (pagans). By the time the whole populations had been forcibly converted, the fervor for defacing public works had started to cool off.
>>18543059it was reassembled in the not too distant past, so when christianity was a big thing it was just a pile of rocks with a few standing up
>>18543239proof?
>>18543059Idk survivor bias maybe there were thousands of sites like that but jesus weirdoes fucked them upOr maybe the stones were to heavy and too boring for anyone to care.Back then it could also been so unimpressive no one gave a second thought about it maybe they thought some travelers had some fun laying stones over one another
>>18543285The used cranes to re-erect stones, moved them from original positions, and cemented them in place during the 50s IIRC.Part of the highway project designed to drive tourism, which ironically destroyed adjacent sites of importance.Yet more archaeological "reconstruction" or "renovation" work. You see the same thing all over Latin America. Anyways, the story might have been different 1600 YBP.Antiquarian testimonies, that is to say before the 20th century, described and illustrated their original positions.
Christianity arrived in Britain very early, as early as the 1st century, and Britain was one of the few Roman provinces where Christianity wasn't really persecuted at all because local authorities simply didn't care or actively disobeyed directives.
>>18543059They did. The Christians destroyed all of the other sites. They attacked trees for being Pagan. They attacked stones for being Pagan. They even attacked buildings for being Pagan. What you are looking at is just one of the few survivors of the Jewish practice of Tikkun Olam, which means to smash the sites and artifacts of culture of all other people, so only the Jewish god is left.
>>18543059Christians don't do outdoor worship and there's no roof.Interestingly, Bell Beakers and Celts continued to use the site, the monument survived substantial population and surely religious turnover, but it just differed too much from Christian ritual demands for them to incorporate it the way they did to a fair amount of old temples.
>>18543239>>18543464There are depictions from the 14th century. The Duke of Tuscany visited in the 17th century. Yes, some restoration occurred, partly because stones were recorded as having FALLEN in 1797. Virtually all ancient sites have been restored, if only partly.
>>18544194There are unrestored megaliths in other parts of Europe. Why can't paleobritishers make their rocks stand up eternally like other WHG rapist chads?
It was a bunch of shitty old rocks in the middle of nowhere that no one cared about until about 100 years agoIf it had been in the middle of a city or even in a village and the locals had been doing some ooga booga in front of it then yeah Christians would have "appropriated" it
>>18544952It's not like some random pile of rocks it's like a genuine 4D artwork that charts celestial events with precise math, before they even had a system for symbolic math. It's an extremely advanced astronomical ritual site. Not just for the era but any era, and surprisingly most megalithic European sites are like this. Likely it was at the heart of a settlement in different eras and included waterways.The issue is that many times over it was just a pile of rubble. It was just post holes and timber in the mesolithic but even then people were using it to chart celestial events. What makes Stonehenge actually weird is the lack of groups like druids, Romans or medieval populations co-opting it. Likely druids did build all over the site, but Romans did not and those that did rebuilt elements out of timber and etc. rather than stone or brick like the sites on the continent.
>>18545765>with precise math, before they even had a system for symbolic mathIt's not though lolThey weren't figuring shit out by using trig or calculusThey probably didn't even know math operations beyond simple sums and whole fractionsThey just stuck some wood in the ground to mark the extremities of the sun's motion across the sky, over the year, over many yearsLater they replaced the wood with stoneSimple as
Is anyone going to mention that the Normans built one of the most beautiful cathedrals in the world just down the road from Stonehenge?Maybe that could explain why their attention wasn't focused on the nearby pile of rocks. That we can no longer build something as beautiful as Salisbury Cathedral is more embarrassing than the post-Beaker invasion Britons being unable to build henges
The better question is why the Beakers, after massacring the ANF folk who built Stonehenge, rearranged its inner circle of bluestones
>>18545765>>18543879Interesting that the continual usage of Stonehenge confused historians so much that, in the 1960s-1980s, it was commonly accepted that the Paleolithic Hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers were the only people to migrate to Britain until the Romans, and that the Celtic languages arrived by diffusion (?). If it weren't for haploautists being given labs in Germany and Harvard, the idea that the Beakers were a new people reusing the henge might have remained a fringe theory to this day.
