Drought Has Revealed Spain's Long-Submerged 'Stonehenge'

Re:Drought Has Revealed Spain's Long-Submerged 'Stonehenge' by dalbasal on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @06:02AM (#20938223)

Wow!

I have to say, I am totally with the zeitgeist in terms of recent interest in the early neolithic and late paleolithic. These are fascinating to me. It's particularly fascinating how widespread (both time and place) the motifs are, structural and functional/symbolic. Celestial-solar calendars. There are similarities to British henges and Irish granges. I'm sure there are (the

BTB...Are they really going to re-submerge this site (or move it)?!! It seems insane.

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Re:Drought Has Revealed Spain's Long-Submerged 'Stonehenge' by arethuza on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @06:38AM (#20938490)

I think the similarly to henges might be a coincidence as the rings of stones in this case were the inner and outer walls of a construction that was originally covered with a mound of soil (so more like chambered tombs like Maes Howe).

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Re:Drought Has Revealed Spain's Long-Submerged 'Stonehenge' by hutzlibu on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @06:53AM (#20938591)

I didn't know the interest in neolithic is also a Zeitgeist phenomen. I mean, I am interested and my circle of people, but is it really more widespread?

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Re:Drought Has Revealed Spain's Long-Submerged 'Stonehenge' by dalbasal on Friday September 13, 2019 @07:33AM (#20961127)

..maybe not lady gaga level zeitgeist.. nonfiction book sales and such.

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Re:Drought Has Revealed Spain's Long-Submerged 'Stonehenge' by hutzlibu on Friday September 13, 2019 @11:52AM (#20963205)

Do you maybe have some recommendations about good books on the topic?

(english or german)

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