New neighbor for Stonehenge

[Porpoise101]

Article:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/07/438307673/stonehenge-has-a-new-old-neighbor-row-of-huge-stones-found-nearby?ft=nprml&f=1001

Personally I think it's really cool when we find cool archeological discoveries because it brings us that much closer to understanding the lives of our ancestors. This new monument near Stonehenge is cool because it shows how devout those people were.

[Babs]

Pretty damn cool. There's still a lot of mysteries in this world, sometimes I forget we haven't found everything.

[Desuetude]

I hadn't heard about this before this thread and the first thing I thought when I read it was "god fucking damn, even more tourist traffic", don't know what to make of that.

Yeah its pretty cool, I mean, they're just stones but the fact that they're so big and were somehow transported for miles and miles and miles amazes me.

[Emerald Dream]

I think I am just as amazed that we are just finding this, as big as it is...as I am impressed with the row of stones itself. Really cool, and just goes to show that even with all the technology we have - we still haven't discovered everything left for us by people who lived a long time ago.

[Judean Zealot]

I think we pretty consistently underestimate the ancients. I mean, the masses were quite obviously completely deluded but the wise men seemed to have had much more knowledge than we credit them with.

[phuckphace]

I think we pretty consistently underestimate the ancients. I mean, the masses were quite obviously completely deluded but the wise men seemed to have had much more knowledge than we credit them with.

yeah too bad these guys couldn't write and maybe leave us a few dictionaries and chronicles of the hengelords behind (and that one library that burned down but let's not go there, too soon). humans have been anatomically modern for quite a while now - it seems kind of odd that we didn't come up with writing earlier.

[Porpoise101]

Well the explanation for writing is the need to govern effectively right? Most people lived in small groups of hunter gatherers until at least the Neolithic so the most they would ever need would be maybe glyphs or pictures for rituals and lore. We have cave paintings in Lascaux for example, so if you want to call that a type of writing then maybe you could say we have had it for a long time.