Stonehenge - A Prehistoric Enigma

Stonehenge, perhaps the most famous prehistoric monuments of Britain, remains a mystery to this day. We know that this is a huge, complex stone structure is a religious center, but what really took place in the here and exactly what the participants believe that will probably never understand, and we know it began in the Neolithic period, about 2950BC, and went on to serve here for almost 15 centuries, until about 1500BC.

This famous stone circle standing tall on Salisbury Plain, His Holiness is disturbed now a rush of traffic. It was built in stages, starting with a circular bank and ditch, with cattle skulls buried in ulazu.Prvi stones were not erected until about 2500BC (the bluestones were brought all the Presely mountains in Wales), a complex monument that now we see the end result of several phases of construction , culminating in the Bronze Age period.

its various ditches, pits and stones suggests that Stonehenge was built first in the awareness phase of the moon, and later a solar event, so some people have theorized that Stonehenge was built as a major astronomical observatory, or kaokalkulator. Today most archaeologists believe that this was not the primary purpose of Stonehenge, but it was the center, where many people gathered at the ceremony and to celebrate their ancestors. All around him there are hundreds of barrows (burial mounds) - we can see examples of these paintings in the Victorian Picture Library, one of which shows a Neolithic long barrow in the foreground, as well as various types of Bronze Age Barrows circle.