Stone Henge
Professor Timothy Darvill challenged the new Stonehenge theory proposed by US scientist Steven Waller in the Guardian yesterday.
Steven Waller proposed after a series of experiments that the positions of the standing stones match patterns in sound waves created by a pair of musical instruments.
Timothy said that while sound played an important role in events at Stonehenge, the monument was probably not designed with acoustics in mind.
“The main structure is a replica in stone of what was normally built in wood,” he said. “They used the same techniques. The positioning of the main components is all about the construction of a framework, a building if you like, as the setting for ritual adventures that included the use of the bluestones brought over from Wales.”
Hello. I posted my theory of Woodhenge/Stonehenge yesterday. i too was heavily influenced by the fact that Woodhenge, if lintelled, could have been a Mark1 version of Stonehenge, and as such there may have been a utilitarian aspect that had been overlooked. I briefly toyed with the idea of a Parsi/Zoroastrian like Tower of Silence, using carrion crows etc to expedite corpse disposal. But on discovering there were huge accumulations of pig bones at nearby Durrington Walls, and the evidence of winter feasting, I suddenly thought of a novel explanation, based on what I call ‘secondary cannibalism’ (invested with lots of ceremony and ritual). Silbury too can be worked into the theory, as well as the bluestone pillars and debitage.
All comments – negative included – are welcome. here or on my own site.