Prof. Mike Parker Pearson | The New Archaeology of Stonehenge | Megalithomania 2021

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[geraldinehunter]

Love this ! We need to really support the folks that put these fabulous historical doc's out. MegalithomaniaUK; History Time; Pete Kelly; etc. There's so many now that inform us of the the questions of our past. Thank you to all ! Love these so much!

[crasslee]

This is the best thing I've watched in quite a long time. It has really expanded and focused my understanding of the Stonehenge ritual landscape. Thank you so very much Professor Parker Pearson.

[rtk]

Cheddar man was 'black'....maybe 'dark skinned' would be a better description as 'black' has too many modern political connotations as the comment section shows. Great work Megalithomania as always.

[martyheresniak]

Thank you so much for this. I had heard bits and pieces of some of the ancillary sites, but this puts it all together both in space and time. Now I understand better. I have to rewatch this to get it all in order in my mind. THANKS.

[robw]

Mike thanks so much for this. I volunteer at Stonehenge in the Exhibition Centre. Videos such as this arm me with excellent information I can use to enhance visitors understanding of the history of SH.

[gotMylky]

Fascinating stuff! What a well put together presentation, excellent speaker!

[gerhardheydrich]

I recently read that the 'black' mesolithic theory has now been rejected by geneticists.

[shian]

Cheddar man wasn't 'black', go read the latest research on that.

[simonkeyse]

Even through the haze of a bottle of wine this presentation was fascinating to the very end. Thank you.

[ThunderboltWisdom]

We can match exactly where the bluestones came from in Wales and exactly which one of the Aubrey holes a particular stone stood in. And all about those half million bones. Pretty impressive archaeology. 👍

[BotanyDegreePilkerton]

I was at Stonehenge 2006 Summer Solstice, with chums, I loved it.
There are lots of rules, you can't take a deck chair, you have to sit on a tarp or picnic blanket, and no musical instruments are allowed, only tom-toms.
And you have to be fit, the walk from the carpark is quite the hike.
Cops check inside your bags.

[susanleslie]

Such an interesting presentation - thank you!!

[phi-life-cipher]

I spend every solstice, winter and summer, at previously Stonehenge before it was ruined, and now Avebury and west Kennet. Feels like home. Fascinating literally was hanging on every word. I’m English but all my ancestry is Abergavenny 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌍

[eidrith]

To lift the stones at 1:03:5 could they have made several winches by winding ropes around a beam of some kind. There would have to be a number of ropes for safety in the likely case that one broke. No a days steel cables would be used.

[meatloafandme]

Again thank you megalithomaniauk brilliant really am enjoying this, so fascinating love how Prof Mike explains, could listen to this for hours. X

[Twitch]

This optical luminescent thingy bakes my noodle. How someone worked out that light is trapped in quartz and it can be dated!! Nobel prize to her or him for this

[odalisque]

just had a stunning (to me) thought at around 108. it sometimes takes fresh eyes to see the obvious: "stones are ancestors", an African traditional monument. Many (all?) of these cultures would have been oral cultures, these stones being "touchstones" to ancestral history, perhaps. The thought is : when and from where did we derive our tradition of tombstones? we still do it, we still even cremate and bury ashes beneath tombstones, not just burials in coffins. The one continuous pattern is marking graves with standing stones. Maybe someone can illuminate?

As to the naysayers, it seems that the hair-trigger doubters are the vestigial remains of the christian culture, always looking to doubt the process of scientific research and the serious quest for all our origins. Of course there will be mis steps and blind alleys, but it is scientific method, not dogmatic certainty, that requires us to be self correcting, not in the moment but in the process of further research. The arm chair "experts" who have never spent a minute on their knees painstakingly extracting samples and developing theories, are the descendants of men who screamed heretic at Galileo, rather than the conspiratorial skeptics they imagine themselves to be.

The calm decency in the voice of the presenter tells me that he would be the first to consider a solid contrary hypothesis should one arise, but its highly unlikely one could be found in the comment sections of most youtube videos. Thank you so much for yet another deeply researched and fascinating video.

[Tobi-xszy]

Wow, what a lecture, what great results.

[Mrcool]

Hands down one of my fav speakers/ archeologist/ Prof/ bad ass dude

[jackparsons]

Listening to Prof. Mike Parker Pearson speak is like listening to an entire species of humans soon to go extinct.