Stanton Drew Stone Circles The site I am studying is the Stanton Drew stone circles. These are located North East of the village see figures one and two. Stanton Drew is in the South West of Britain around 6 miles south of Bristol. The stones survived from a Neolithic period carbon dated to around 4,000 years ago. The site consists of three stone circles: The Grand Circle, The North East Circle and The South East Circle which is inaccessible as it is in a private garden. There are other features including The Cove and Hautville's Quoit see figure 2. The Great circle consists of 28 stones though it looks like there could have been at least 30 originally. These stones don't have a pattern to where they are placed as shown in diagram 3. The Diameter from North to South is around 115m and slightly less from East to west. The average distance between the stones (along a straight line) was 7.4m and the average height of the stones (the four remaining standing) was 2.47m. The Stones themselves seem to be from Dundry, 3 miles north as the same stone is found there, oolite or from local sources and made of Conglomerate. The stones are believed to represent male and female genitilier although as you can see from the photos they can hardly be recognised as 2 different types and it is doubtful the stones themselves were meant to represent this, however the site as a whole may represent fertility due to the nearness of the river and there being a connection with death, due to the bones found in the site there is a strong possibility that birth and life have a connection with the site. An Avenue extends from the Grand Circle heading do... ... middle of paper ... ...er. On balance the evidence suggests that the sight was not built purely for religious reasons. The evidence suggests that the Stone Circles have multiple uses. Theses include evidence of sacrifices and rituals. The stone circles also seem to have practical uses from information on farming about when to harvest and other times of farming significance to fertility and information on when to try and have children in order to increase the likelihood of survival. Other unjustified uses of the stones would be to impress neighbouring tribes and general socialisation is quite likely. Overall it seems that the site was built partly for religious and partly for other reasons and so based on the evidence the answer is most likely no the site was not built for purely religious reasons but for many different varied reasons.
Terrance Hayes “How to Be Drawn” gives his perceptions in on race, culture, family, art, and issues that he had experienced in his life in three parts of the book. Hayes not only describes the struggles of racism for African American men, but he also talks about how we all as one view ourselves and how we believe others view us. The themes that were mostly discussed in this book was race and self. The author tells his story in his poems about the struggles of him being invisible and visible as an African American. There is a great amount of questions that are being asked about how we understand things? How we process memories? Hayes was incredibly creative when creating this book of poems by showing inventive ways to tell his stories by showing
Their innermost position explained with the need of protection that comes from the mother/father like structures right behind them really does reflect a family atmosphere. We saw the parents and the child in the middle, and all this can imply that the motive of birth hides behind these enormous stones. They [Perks and Bailey] openly negate the theory of Stonehenge site being a burial site, since there is very little evidence of death. However, the comparison to the motive of birth still stands its point. If one look closely at the structure of human vulva and the structure of Stonehenge from a bird perspective, one can easily notice a lot of resemblance points.
However, that meaning is not always known. It is believed that Stonehenge was most likely made to bring people of a community together as well as to mark a place where individuals could gather to perform rituals, although many theories about why it was built and the purpose it serves exist. For example, recent studies show that the monument may mark the graveyard of a ruling dynasty. There is evidence of over 200 cremated human remains that have been buried at the site within a period of 500 years. Some evidence suggests the site may have been a piece in a larger series of structures used for funerary rituals. The only thing that is knows for sure “is that Stonehenge held meaning for the Neolithic community that built it”
A prehistoric archaeologist’s goal, as per Scupin and DeCorse (2013:5), is to decipher the beliefs and mindset of past societies, particularly early inhabitants of Europe and America, through their material culture, such as the cave art found in Lascaux. This cave, located in southern France, contains what is believed to be one of the oldest artistic representations of wild animals and art; it has captured the interest of numerous scientists, philosophers and historians, all of whom wish to make sense of these enigmatic images (Lippit 2002:20). With the multitude of minds working to decode these images, it comes as no surprise that there are a variety of unique interpretations of these paintings today. Most explanations are formulated through the extrapolation of an analysis conducted upon a specific scene within the larger picture, and seek to understand the ethos of the species painting it. More specifically, the study of the ‘accident scene’ has led to two prominent explanations, which state that these paintings depict the challenges of life, or have religious significance to healing or the hunt. However, both articles indirectly agree that these paintings represent the beginning of humanity’s self-awareness.
In this ancient place there were all different kinds of remnants from what looked to be a permanent settlement, which led us to believe that it was formed in the Neolithic period. Scientists also believe from the skull fragments found that the Cro-Magnons were the hominid type that inhabited the area. Some of the fossils found helped to prove that the settlement was immobile because the fossilized plants were apparently in a specific arrangement, showing that they were planted purposefully. Some of the cotton grown in this area was apparently used to make woven cloth. Remnants of corn meal were used to make some of the mortar for their establishments, along with mud and sand. They also made their bricks, which were much larger than today’s, from mud. Some of the teeth from the Cro-Magnons were found to be stained. They were thought to be from the coffee ingested due to the high amounts of caffeine deposits in the bones.
Not too far away from the town of Montignac, in the western Massif Central and Northern Pyrenees, the cave of Lascaux was discovered. Four teenage boys and their dog discovered it. The four boys, Marcel Ravidat, Jacques Marsal, Georges Agnel and Simon Coenccus, were out on an expedition, but they found more than they bargained for that day. Their dog wandered away and they searched for him. In the process, the four boys discovered a cave that had been right below their feet for the past 17,000 years. They were not able to venture down into the 250-meter deep cave on the first day so they came back the next day prepared to enter the cave. When the boys first wiggled their way down into the cave they did not find anything. It was not until they reached an oval room that they first discovered paintings on the walls. These boys had uncovered paintings dating back to the Aurignacian (30,000-18,000 B.C.E.) (Laming, 34-41) and Magdalenian (15,000-10,000 B.C.E.) periods. It is believed that many of the paintings found in Lascaux were created between 16,000 and 14,000 B.C.E. The boys could no longer keep this cave a secret, so they told one of their teachers, Monsieur Laval. After accompanying the boys down to the cave, M. Laval started alerting historians to this new discovery. Within five days three historians were already on their way to visit the site. On September 17, 1940 three experts on Paleolithic art, Abbé Breuil, Dr. Cheynier and Abbé Bouyssonnie, crawled down into the cave; it was at this point the cave became authenticated.
Crop circles were so popular that they even made a movie called “Signs”! In the 1980’s the crop circles had been appearing and when this happened Colin Andrews want to investigate why. Victims of crop circles ask the same questions. Most Scientist believe that crop circles are made by man.First, in the 1980’s the crop circles had been appearing and when this happened Colin Andrews want to investigate why. In the 1980’s Colin Andrews started to investigate crop circles. He wanted to find the reasons. Others said it existed due to simple and more realistic reasons. He thought it had to be more scientific reasons like aliens. While Colon drove to a meeting he looked. What he saw transpire to be a cross that existed of circles in a field. When an investigation group started
Stonehenge took almost one thousand five hundred years to build. According to claims by anthropology.msu.edu, “The construction of Stonehenge began with the outer ring which consisted of sarsen sandstone slabs excavated from local quarries in England’s Salisbury Plain, while the inner ring was being built with smaller Bluestone rocks that scientists have tracked back to the Preseli Hills in Wales, nearly two-hundred miles away from the construction site of Stonehenge”(Stonehenge: the Ancient Alien Theory). Therefore, researchers have been questioning how those neolithic people were able to move four tons worth of boulders over such a great distance, especially considering that this monument was constructed around five thousand years ago. Von Däniken and other theorists believe that the aliens were involved in the construction of Stonehenge, and many other pieces of history as
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When you analysis The Allegory Cave Theory it shows that most people can only speak from their perspective and also how we learn and process information into our minds. Some individual minds are prone to violence because they are exposed to more aggressive behavior. The individuals who are mostly prone to violent behavior, are individuals who learned to express their emotions through violence. When someone is dealing with unstable emotions they have different ways to express them, and for someone who has a violent background is most likely to display their emotions in an aggressive and violent manner. In The cave theory Plato wanted us to understand that some people react to what they know, with the prisoner’s heads being only faced towards
As the multi-faceted, incredibly talented, and absurdly wise, W. Clement Stone so truthfully put it, “to every disadvantage, there is a corresponding advantage.” A saying so simple, so universally applicable, that every individual set on this Earth can truly understand, and more importantly, internalize in such a way that makes it unique to each adversity the universe presents to each soul.
This development is embraced just if the stone is effectively accessible in the close-by regions. The stones are amassed fit as a fiddle of the dike and the voids are somewhat loaded with earth and stone-chips. The side slant on the water side is ensured by pitching.
One of the most famous and mystic monuments of all times sits on Salisbury plains in England. Isolated out in the middle of an open area, built before there was a written language the monument Stonehenge challenges our minds and imaginations. With over half a million visitors each year, debates are brought to life and the mysteries and speculations that surround Stonehenge. Built in early B.C. it took four stages over multiple years and decades to complete. The first stage was a series of ditches that formed multiple circles and dirt was piled on these ditches to make massive mounds. The second, third, and fourth stages were all completed by different circles of people. These people all brought different stones from across all areas of the
Even if they do live a similar lifestyle to their ancestors, contact with agricultural societies or the natural evolution of society over time contaminates a perfect look into the past (46). However, recent written accounts combined with archeological findings can allow more interpretations to be made about the past. One such finding is the Lascaux rock art depicting what appears to be a male figure laying in front of a wounded bison and a rhinoceros with three dots beneath its tail (52). While the exact meaning of this art is debated, it does allow some insight into the era. Its narrative like composition leads some scholars to believe this to be early evidence of a written story (53). This also sets a theme for the art of the era. Indeed, much of the art of the Paleolithic peoples adhered to set of aesthetic conventions (52). These conventions indicate a long standing social order (52). In the Neolithic era, many new art innovations evolved from the new agricultural economy (53). This allows scholars to identify a change in social order between these two eras. Realistic figurines, pottery, basket weaving, and advancements in architecture were some of the trademarks of the Neolithic era. For example, the Catalhuyuk figurine and Stonehenge demonstrate this era’s rise of complexity in art, tools, and architecture (53, 57). While some of these anthropological and
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