Some of the ancient structures in the world still captivate our imagination and astonish us till this day. Like Stonehenge one of the most recognizable and famous sites in the world. Additionally the Mayan civilization, that immediately reminds you of the prediction of the end of the world. Hence to extend our knowledge about the Stonehenge and the Mayan civilization I am going to talk about their culture, beliefs and their surroundings. The Mayan civilization was able to adapt itself amongst the harsh conditions and was able to live till today. The Mayan civilization was located in Mexico and Central America before the 16th century called Mesoamerica. The Maya lived in 3 separate environments which caused cultural differences. Around 1800B.C. the Maya were agricultural using slash-burn system, and has had several techniques that raised their fields. Their agriculture contains of squashes, beans, cotton and various kinds of fruit trees. In addition the Mayans are advanced in cultural traits like pyramids building, city construction and stone monuments. The Mayan style of art consist of weapons made from parts of animals, also they are famous with pyramids and calendars. Around 250 A.D the Mayan civilization was consistent of 40 cities and each city held a population of 5.000 and 50.000 people. At its peak the Mayan civilization reached 2.000.000. The Maya were very religious people worshiping various Gods related to nature. Like the Gods of the sun, corn, moon and rain. Coming to the Stonehenge, located in Britain which is the most prehistoric monument. The first Stonehenge was built in around 2600 B.C. The stones form a circle about 284 feet in diameter. Construction of the Stonehenge continued from the moment it was built. Two ... ... middle of paper ... ...pagan civilization. This theory has very small evidence to support it and seems to be based more on prejudices of early humans before modern religion than anything else. It seems that the purpose of this structure can only be theorized. The true purpose of Stonehenge seems to be lost to time. In conclusion, I believe the reason for the Mayan civilization to diminish, is overpopulation since they have exhausted their lands and it couldn’t sustain more population. Additionally another cause was their complex traditions of rituals and ceremonies. Finally the harsh environmental condition since they lack water. But Mayans are still alive till this day but located in different locations. The Stonehenge in now considered the most famous sites in the world. Approximately 800.00 tourists visit it every year. It has undergone to several restorations to prevent its collapse.
It is very likely that most people have heard about the Mayan Civilization in one way or another. Whether fictitious or factual, this ancient culture iw idelt recognized. The Mayan people lived from about 250 to 900 CE in Mesoamerica. Which includes modern day Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, and parts of southern Mexico.These people had many remarkable achievements, all of which can fit under the categories of scale, genius effort, and significance. These achievements include an advanced trade system, an amazing understanding of numbers, and the ability to design and build cities that are still mostly standing today. However, their most impressive achievement is their complex calendars.
Stonehenge: a Human Vulva or Temple, or something else…? The content of this project is based on the largest and most complete megalithic structure in Europe, The Stonehenge. It resides in center of the southern England; on the wide spread Salisbury Plains. It is said to be old approximately four thousand years, and it is even considered older than the Great Pyramids of Egypt.
What is Stonehenge? What is known about this monument (such as the date it was created and what the monument might have originally looked like)?
The Maya were an advanced society, rich and full extraordinary architecture with great complexity of patterns and variety of expressions, that flourished in Mesoamerica long before the arrival of the Spanish in the sixteenth century. They were skilled architects, building prodigious cities of primarily of limestone that remain a thousand years after their civilization fell into decline. Greatness and Grandeur was the signature of all Mayan cities, from the terminal pre-classic period and continued until the abandonment of all the city states by the beginning of the ninth century. The Maya built pyramids, temples, palaces, walls, residences and more. The limestone structures, faced with lime stucco, were the hallmark of ancient Maya architecture.
The Mayans were a great powerful group of people that followed what they believed in, build big beautiful temples. The Maya build a big temple inside the big jungle of southern Mexico. The temple is so big that you can see it from high in the sky. You can still see the temple today, but the temple lays in ruins because of the thick jungle that have grown over it. At that temple, they sacrificed people for the gods. If the Mayans had died out because of all the desices the Spanish brought we could have learned more about them.
Stonehenge is one of the most mysterious landmarks in the world. This stone circle is covered with a veil of mystery just waiting to be pulled open, to answer all of our questions. Thread by thread Archeologist work to unravel the mystery of Stonehenge, to discovery where it came from and who built it. Some skeptics don’t believe that there’s anything more Stonehenge than just a few rocks that stand. That’s why Archeologists aren’t going to rest until the truth of Stonehenge is clear.
...e main purpose and design of Stonehenge is thought to be create a horseshoe and circle. Their builders were most probably Beaker people who lived 3,500 years ago. They came and invaded Salisbury Plain. It is possible that Beaker people build Stonehenge because they wanted to create a home for their an-cestors and dead ones. According to archeologists Stonehenge is only part of a monument which is more enormous design. Other part of religious monument could had been a wooden structure.
Stonehenge is a monument that is located in Wiltshire, England. It is one of the most famous monuments in the world, and is meritorious when it comes to the world’s best monuments. Standing tall in Southern England, the Stonehenge is an arrangement of massive stones that form a circular geometry. No one knows who built it, but medieval tales say that it is the work of Merlin the Wizard, during the age of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. As time passed, it is said that the Romans were responsible for the building of Stonehenge. In more recent times, archaeologists have discovered who really might have built Stonehenge. Archaeologists and scientists now believe that Stonehenge was put together more than 4000 years ago, a long time before Medieval England or the Romans. Modern researchers have come to a new hypothesis: Stonehenge was built by people who lived around the time of the ending of the Stone Age. Although scientists and archeologists have come to some conclusions, no one really knows how this monument was erected. Over time the monument has endured some history, and has given humanity time to discover many things about this mysterious monument known as Stonehenge.
In the Central America, most notably the Yucatan Peninsula, are the Maya, a group of people whose polytheistic religion and advanced civilization once flourished (Houston, 43). The Maya reached their peak during the Classic Period from around CE 250 to the ninth century CE when the civilization fell and dispersed (Sharer, 1). Although much has been lost, the gods and goddesses and the religious practices of the Classic Maya give insight into their lives and reveal what was important to this society.
"Collapse: Why Do Civilizations Fall?" Out of the Past. Annenburg/CPB Multimedia. 1998. *http://www.learner.org/exhibits/collapse/mayans.html* (30 Jan. 2001).
Stonehenge, one of England most puzzling structures has historian, researchers and archeologists very unsure of it actually purpose. Whatever Stonehenge is it is a remarkable structure full of mystery and magic. Between 1919 and 1950 was a major breakthrough when archeologist began finding the remains of Stonehenge, Today he remains of Stonehenge can be visited in the fields of Witt shire England, where it has stood for nearly 5000 years. Stonehenge has three major areas starting with the inner circle, a smaller stone semicircle, and a larger more define horseshoe surrounding the two smaller areas. The inner part of Stonehenge dates back more than 5000 years ago. The radius of the inner circle spans 320 feet, the depth of the ditch is 7 feet deep by 20 ft wide. The people who built this circle took the chalk like rock that was produced from digging and built up a bank within the bank there were 56 holes dug named after the scholar John Alburey. At the entrance of the circle there were two stone that were put in place these made sort of an entrance way to the circle as well as two more stone opposite of each other. One of the main stones still standing is called the slaughter stone which is one of the entrance stones. After the building of the inner circle there was evidence that the Neolithic people used it for another 500 years after.
Human began to revolutionize away from hunting and gathering. Human life begin toward agriculture. During this period was where monumental sculpture began. It started with skull restoration. There were now more human painting instead of animal. There was a lot of megalithic found during this time. Megaliths. (Great stone) was using for honoring the death. There were all unique arrangement of megaliths also known as Stonehenge. Stonehenge it was actually a big, ancient calendar designed to keep track of time and important astronomical events. However, it could had been representation of religious shrine. Majority of the Stonehenge pointed to where the sun rise. Could it mean that they believed in higher being and rebirth? The most famous megalithic monument in Europe is Stonehenge on the Salisbury Plain in southern England. A henge is an arrangement of megalithic stones in a circle. Could had been some kind of ritual? Even today we still can guess of all the possibility. Art has millions of meanings, there is no one right
The Stonehenge at Salisbury Plains has been shrouded in mystery even before the time of Christ, but the truth of the matter is that nobody truly knows how this monument came to be. The origins of this monument range from logical theories to totally far fetched science fiction and middle age theories. This site has been around for over 4 millennia, but before the stones were even erected or on British land, it was used as a burial site. Then comes the weird theories, like Merlin from the King Arthur tales using his powers to move all of the stones into their formation or extraterrestrials coming down from outer space and giving knowledge to the ancient people in the area. Aside from these theories that lack any form of logical reasoning, the most widely accepted theory is that the monument was created as a religious shrine for the Druids of the area.
There are some, however, who have speculated as to what the giant stone structure could have been constructed for. Theories such as observatory, burial grounds, temple, and others are much debated among those who care to look into these matters. Among those who do not care to question its existence, Stonehenge is just a large pile of huge stones that happen to make a circle. No matter which side a person might take, there is no definite way to prove what Stonehenge was used for. There is no way to know because there are no written records of the construction of Stonehenge, there are not even depictive carvings on the stones themselves that suggest a purpose to the massive
“Stonehenge is one of the most impressive prehistoric megalithic monuments in the world on account of the sheer size of its megaliths, the sophistication of its concentric plan and architectural design, the shaping of the stones, uniquely using both Wiltshire Sarsen sandstone and Pembroke Bluestone, and the precision with which it was built.