What is Stonehenge? Tom Holland interviews archaeologist Professor Mike Parker Pearson

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What is Stonehenge? Tom Holland interviews archaeologist Professor Mike Parker Pearson

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Numerous archaeologists, including many in ICOMOS who advise UNESCO, are against the A303 road proposals. One of them is Professor Mike Parker Pearson, who agreed to give us his views about the proposal. Professor Parker Pearson is one of the world's leading experts on Stonehenge, and Professor of British Later Prehistory at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. This video is the first of three where Professor Parker Pearson starts off by describing the Stone Circle's unique features and possible functions. The Stonehenge road scheme is subject to a legal appeal. Please donate to the legal challenge if you can here: www.crowdjusti... Thank you.

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@timkbirchico8542 Ай бұрын

up until 1984 on every summer solstice I and many others had free access to the stones. Great memories of being a part of the heritage of Stonehenge. Then Operation Stonehenge. And now this. Good luck with the campaign.

@user-dd37wj03 Ай бұрын

Stonehenge was made with huge amounts of planning and co-operation amongst a large amount of people, possibly from many areas of Britain. It was made to withstand whatever the weather threw at it down the years and is fashioned for people to have whatever events or ceremonies they believed were important. People still go there and have gatherings, with respect for those who built it or whose remains are buried there or just to sit and wonder. The contempt those leaders have, who plan and support the road system, is for us the people.

@1258-Eckhart Ай бұрын

I don't believe that the road planners don't respect the historic status of this site. How can they not? It's just incredible.

@user-dd37wj03 Ай бұрын

@@1258-Eckhart Money. Also, I've heard the area described as 'A load of old stones that will disappear eventually anyway.'

@michaelmcnally2331 15 күн бұрын

What you need to do is has already been pointed out is to have the drivers in cars stop rubbernecking at the stones. When you look on traffic maps then literally the red for stuck traffic meets in each direction where drivers have to stop looking out the windscreen. After which somehow miraculously they can speed back up. If people didn't slow down to look at the stones whilst driving down a single carriageway road then the existing road could cope with the traffic levels and wouldn't need to do anything with the roads.

@derek68able Ай бұрын

CREATING THIS ROAD SYSTEM ,ON THIS UNIQUE SITE, SHOWS THE CONTEMPT OUR LEADERS HAVE FOR NATURE AND HISTORY.

@Autorange888 Ай бұрын

History? Its pre-historic. I don't accept those decision makers as 'our leaders', they are thick in the head.

@db1418 Ай бұрын

.....A place to curse as you get stuck behind or crash into rubberneckers.

@jonathanross812 Ай бұрын

It is a latter day town square....or maybe a precinct.

@HenryWilson-n1d Ай бұрын

Surely the tunnel is better than what we currently have? We'll have less pollution, less of an eyesore when visiting the stones, be returning the environment closer to what it was when the stones were put there by our ancestors, restoring natural habitats for local wildlife, and improve traffic in the area. The entrance and exit are a mile away from the stones so that's not going to be a problem, there's hundreds of formally educated archaeologists working on it (not just some random academics in irrelevant subjects) and they've got years to go through it all. Also funding, Archaeology is incredibly underfunded - A dig like this isn't going to come around often.

@davidgriffin8958 Ай бұрын

What is Stonehenge? A Neolithic HS2

@jonnyhendrixson Ай бұрын

The heel stone is a mudfossil

@kerryburns-k8i Ай бұрын

Whoever built Stonehenge was no simple hunter--gatherer. They had knowledge of mathematics, astronomy, and a handy way with big stones over miles of rough ground. I don´t think they lived in huts of sticks and mud. Fast forward 3,000 years, and the Romans found a load of barbarians. An interesting interval shunned by academe. So don´t tell me you have the least scintilla of a clue about Stonehenge professor, because you don´t.

@Autorange888 Ай бұрын

The people who built Stonehenge had a sedentary life style with stocks of cattle, people arrived from far and wide at festivals with plenty of meat. Scara Brae is a Neolithic village on Orkney, it was stone built, but more simple housing is not to be shunned, the Celts inhabited round houses. Who says the Neolithic people, well versed in geometry and astronomy, and used healing plants, were barbarians? The Romans were folk with rotten morals who called every non-Roman a barbarian, but they enlisted them into their legions anyway. Barbarians? On the forum of Rome the Romans buried Gallic couples alive.

@kerryburns-k8i Ай бұрын

@@Autorange888 So sedentary cattle farmers developed ways of transporting megaliths weighing many tons, hundreds of miles over rough ground, to hoist them in the air onto previously erected stone pillars -- all to an astronomically preordained orientation ... I´m trying, really I am ...

@Autorange888 Ай бұрын

@@kerryburns-k8i Stonehenge was possibly governed by a dynasty of king-priests. A sendentary life style made possible the construction of great monuments. On Orkney is Scara Brae, the houses are of stone, with beds and dressers, central kerbed hearths, these are the oldest standing houses in north-west Europe, older than the pyramids.

@kerryburns-k8i Ай бұрын

@@Autorange888 As you please.