tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370608702108183652.post9161475619095531117..comments2024-01-05T08:35:19.028+00:00Comments on Landscape Perceptions: Winter solsticeUlla Rajalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00851995797806801636noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370608702108183652.post-36776772309150524842011-12-23T14:35:31.252+00:002011-12-23T14:35:31.252+00:00Hi Ulla,
I was teasing a bit about the Celtic, an...Hi Ulla, <br />I was teasing a bit about the Celtic, and certainly if they had colour photography . . . but there is an important point here; modern approaches to archaeology that project beliefs conceived in the C20th onto people of the Neolithic and Bronze Age, - risk being about as valid as modern Paganism and its conceptions about the monument.<br />One has to ask who is picking up vibes from the stones?<br />Apart from a few basic alignments which are common throughout Neolithic and BA Eurasia, none of this stuff is implicit in the evidence. <br />Both are faith based approaches, as neither the modern druid or the professor, have any real evidence, both imagine the past through the eyes of people who left no records, and are simply projecting their own beliefs onto a blank canvas. <br />[This is not good for professional archaeologists like myself, if I tell you it was a building, it is because I can demonstrate that to be true].<br />The reason I am pushing your button on this is because I think you are in danger of romanticizing the past - how do you plead?Geoff Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01111820035762957610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370608702108183652.post-39270396307074432712011-12-23T11:00:39.467+00:002011-12-23T11:00:39.467+00:00I refer to 'Celtic' as has been done by so...I refer to 'Celtic' as has been done by some modern pagans describing their religious calendar.Ulla Rajalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00851995797806801636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370608702108183652.post-35028102592661513652011-12-22T09:12:33.704+00:002011-12-22T09:12:33.704+00:00Season's greetings.
While the Solstice may be ...Season's greetings.<br />While the Solstice may be a significant event in most religious calendars,and may be reflected in alignment of structures, it has to be remembered that Stonehenge was a building, just like Woodhenge, although the latter was domestic. <br />The sarsens were raised as a 'load bearing wall' to carry the weight of the roof of the building along with the trilithons. This building contained the bluestones.<br />While MPP may be an expert on how people we have never met perceived landscapes we have have never seen, like most post-processualists, he is structurally illiterate, and incapable of understanding such structures on a rational basis.<br />This phase of the structure predates the 'Celtic' period by at least a thousand years, although Stonehenge would have been a ruin by this stage.Geoff Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01111820035762957610noreply@blogger.com