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Stonehenge

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             southern entrance. It appears as if there was a thin corridor leading into a longer area. This .
             represents a classic architectual device used to make people feel as if they are going through a .
             confined space to get to a bigger, more sacred place. .
             There is much more to discover at Stonehenge than is known today. A core team .
             consisting of archaeologists, chemists, physicists, statiticians, and animal bone specialists has .
             been put together for new studies on Stonehenge. The goals of the core team include the .
             provision of a series of "real" dates for each major phase and the elucidation of the chronology of .
             major events. Also included are the assigning of specific features to each phase. .
             Dating systems of the modern use are of a new technological era. The most accurate up to .
             date systems are radio-carbon dating. This is how it works. All living things contain carbon. The .
             isotope C14 is absorbed by all living things and also decays upon death. The technique of radio-.
             carbon dating measure the amount of C14 within an object. Radio-carbon dating first developed .
             in the 1940's. It was then assumed that C14 decayed at a constant rate. In reality it seems the .
             difference between "true" dates and uncorrected radio-carbon dates ay even differ as much as a .
             thousand years. There is another technique that can be used to "modify" the dates. By counting .
             the annual rings of growth on a tree it is possible to count back to arrive at a specific date. This .
             technique is called dendrochronology. By comparing the tree ring series with the amount of C14 .
             in the materials has provided a means of recalibrating radio-carbon dates. Each process includes .
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             collagen is then purified by a process called gelatinization and n exchange. Last combustion and .
             C14 counting. All or the majority of the material will be lost.


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1. Stonehenge

... more closely, it is a structure of great depth and mystery. Many theories exist concerning how it was built and what its purpose was. Some say Stonehenge was a place the Druids used for religious sacrifice, but others say it was used as a temple of the sun, Pagan Cathedral, holy sanctuary, clock ... one half of the original stone pillars are missing today. All of the joints that join the stone pillars together are dry stone joints. At Stonehenge there are five different types of stone circles. The five types are: outer sarsen circle, outer bluestone circles, inner sarsen trilithons, inne...

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2. Stonehenge

... . Their access to such luxuries can perhaps be attributed to their great international barters who probably traded with people from the Mediterranean Sea area. They built the final phase of Stonehenge, and brought about many cultural changes to the monument such as giving the monument visual magnificence, through artistic designs portraying the afterlife, and more astronomical precision. It is important to ... entrance. The Avenue which is made up of a pair of straight, long, and parallel trenches was also said by many to have been part of this second phase of Stonehenge as well. Stonehe...

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3. Stonehenge: An Ancient Ruin or an Architectural Masterpeice?

... used as a religious center as well as an astronomical observatory. Famous astronomer, Carl Sagan believes that "somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known" (Sagan 1). Likewise, it remains a mystery at Stonehenge how such massive stones could have been moved from the quarry at north Wiltshire by a supposedly archaic people. Some archeologists believed that these primitive people used pulleys to rearrange the ... B.C. This was virtually a millennium prior to the start of Celtic civilization. Consequently, there is no historical 3 Verification that the Druids were or were not im...

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4. Stonehenge

... miles south-southwest of London. This location is found on the Salisbury Plain 8 miles north of the city of Salisbury. The English Channel is located 30 miles west of Stonehenge. The Druids built Stonehenge. The Druids were a group of Celtic priests, medicine people, lawgivers, and judges. These people were from isolated tribes scattered throughout the fields and forests of southern England. The ... Druids herded animals and farmed for a living. Flint axes, deer antlers, and hammer stones are some of the tools used in their daily lives. The stones that make up Stonehenge are called sars...

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5. stonehenge

... miles south-southwest of London. This location is found on the Salisbury Plain 8 miles north of the city of Salisbury. The English Channel is located 30 miles west of Stonehenge. The Druids built Stonehenge. The Druids were a group of Celtic priests, medicine people, lawgivers, and judges. These people were from isolated tribes scattered throughout the fields and forests of southern England. The ... Druids herded animals and farmed for a living. Flint axes, deer antlers, and hammer stones are some of the tools used in their daily lives. The stones that make up Stonehenge are called sars...

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6. Stonehenge--An Ancient and Modern Marvel

... 000 years before the Celts had even arrived and was disproved by archaeologists. The legend of King Arthur provides another story of the construction of Stonehenge (Stonehenge 2). In the fifth century there had been a massacre of 300 British noblemen by the Saxon leader Hengest. The King wanted to create ... to debate theories on its construction and purpose, the only thing that can be said for certain is a description of what still exists today. Stonehenge was constructed in three phases over a 2,000-year period between 3000 BCE and 1400 BCE. Erosion, time, and human invasion have worn ...

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7. Stonehenge: Neolithic PC

... ancestors. Was it a temple to a god? Maybe it was a site of gruesome Druid sacrifices? The answer to these questions is no. Stonehenge was a computer. Stonehenge is generally regarded to have three phases of construction, the first occurring around 2000 B.C. About this time, people from the surrounding area dug a ... task of moving the sarsens . . . would have kept a thousand men busy for seven full years- (Hawkins 66). After they arrived at the Stonehenge site, the sarsens were shaped and polished. They were than placed in the same locations as the previous stones, but in a very differen...

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8. Stonehenge: Why was it built.

... stones were moved to the current site and placed into position by Merlin, a wizard. Legend says that Aurelius, Arthur's uncle had Merlin construct Stonehenge as a monument to his soldiers that died in the battle against the Saxons. One of the more common and believable theories was that Druids built ... the 19-year cycle of the moon and its phases as it circles around earth. All in all nobody knows for sure exactly why or even how Stonehenge was built. It has been studied, tested and recorded many times and still there are no definite answers. Weather the theory is Devil Worship or the ....

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9. Stonehenge Hawkins Hypothesis

... circular design on an open plain. The stones, individually weighing about forty tons, have not naturally taken their erect form. What has bewildered many individuals is how and why Stonehenge was built. Throughout the years, many people have constructed answers popular to their own beliefs regarding the history of these stones (Lynch Swanzey and Coakley, 72). Nearby dwellers are ... who have offered an explanation to the site. Their reports vary because of traditional beliefs or rumors -- more specifically, folktales. "Subsequent generations have offered answers appropriate to their ow...

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