Secrets of Stonehenge FULL SPECIAL | NOVA | PBS America
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- Опубліковано 13 лис 2022
- Investigations about Stonehenge have kicked off a dramatic new era of discovery and debate over who built Stonehenge, how, and for what purpose? Granted exclusive access to the dig site at Bluestonehenge, a prehistoric stone-circle monument recently discovered about a mile from Stonehenge, NOVA cameras join a new generation of researchers finding important clues to this enduring mystery.
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I went there in 1965 when it was not fenced off - magical to walk under/around the stones!
One of the best Stonehenge documentary's I've watched, thanks for posting.
15:00 Or they just could be male sacrifices!
22:30 HILARIOUS using the wrong type of wood! What a pointless experiment!
So this explains all the rock balls that dont exist! LOL They could just do it with trees laid down for support and logs for rollers!
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Stonehenge is outside my city, gathering with so many on Summer Solstice nights/mornings are the best!
Never tire of going to the henge's all around Wiltshire
I visited stonehenge in 2019 & it's honestly difficult to describe the feelings I had while I was there. I was working not far away & decided to take a drive to it on a beautiful summers day. I was by myself but wasn't alone as there was a lot of people there. I stayed until the site closed & the visitors had left. There's a tack that runs parallel to the site called "The drove" where lots of new age hippies & general free spirits camp. I spoke with many as they were so friendly & spiritual. I mentioned at the time to the 1st people I spoke to, I said I don't know if its the beautiful weather or the friendly people around. But the feelings of Joy & that I was visiting a very special place will remain with me for the rest of my life. I was so taken I was constantly on the phone to my wife & kids. They were all jealous & I've promised ill take them this summer. I've got a lot of photo's but like I said seeing this place in a video or in photos, is honestly irrelevant. You have to visit the place if possible. It's surreal, spiritual, an amazing place. People who work on the site deserve a lot of credit & I love hearing the different theories. The truth be known there's no written records of its construction & we are clueless to what it really was & what it meant. Too many theories of any mysterious ancient buildings are labelled as tombs or sacrifice places of worship. It's always the same thing. I personally believe we need to start looking at the places from a totally different point of view. We in our arrogance always try & fit narratives to cultures & places from our views of things. It's what we think they should be like. It's ridiculous the cultures & people's who built these structures were nothing like us. We couldn't be more different so how the hell can we look at these places like they were created by an older version of us?
@@shemnetto4128 You have been brainwashed.
@@shemnetto4128 Do tell me what all that "very misinterpreted"
bible info has to do with Daveyro's comment OR Stonehenge??
We always look at it with a modern perspective and I think you are right. The Victorian Empire perceived everything as empire building. I’m sure this continues. Hope you made it with the family.
I really enjoyed that , thank you to everyone involved. I went there as a child, in those days people didn’t do such foolish things as to spray paint monuments, one could walk amongst the stones and touch them, I remember it well. It is a shame little children cannot do that today.
I was there in December 1967. It was a cold day but we spent hours there.
August 1975 as a teenager. I remember touching the stones and feeling amazed.
I also remember when it was open, no fences or gates
most ruins around the world used to be free to climb and touch, but vandalism and theft have ruined that! It's a shame like you say
@@bikinggal1 it is a shame the people leave their manners at home.
Amazing how any ancient artefacts you have to dig to discover them. Yet stone henge is sat perfectly on top of a freshly mowed field.
no shit
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Not to mention how clean the found pieces are... always 😮
One of my bucket list to see this places
I’ve driven past it quite a few times. It’s so easy to miss.
Yeah it looks it!
Interest - is the mother of research - inner and outer dimensions - included.
Fare thee well.
Mike Parker Pearson (the big bear) is the most wonderful guy, his knowledge is amazing and his discoveries through patience and diligence awe inspiring. No ego no plumped up 'hey look at me' just a good accademic mind and intense research. Thanks Mike can watch you all day. Have watched all these expert archaeologists over the years on Time Team and many other BBC programmes revealing to us the mysteries of our past.
your comment says it . that god will come down to earth .just proves that he was an ALIEN..WHY HE HAS DONE FK ALL.WERE WAS HE WHEN THE JEWS WERE GASED.& pedos rape n kill children...NOWERE HES NOT REAL IN THE SENCE U BELEAVING IN.ALIENS MADE HUMANS FROM APES .GENE SPLICING,and the the proof their is why is their still ape/monkey. still on eath they would have died off once humans evolved Ie (to make someone change or something change & develop gradually ...and none of them have giving birth to other humans ever since we appeared on earth. and humans have 3 more genes than them mmm were did the 3 genes come from
Guess the bible thumper dont like the truth.i dont see their comment i repled to
"Fun" fact - they have been moved around recently.............
Yup he's a complete bore.
This is for Parker Pearson, Andrew Young, Bruce Bradley, Mike Pitts and the the teams involved. Oh, and the videographer team.
Just my two bits worth on how the stones were moved. I would look into the elevation of the river bed compared to the entrance or the end of the channel. If my suspicion is correct they also used buoyancy to transport the stones, as well as the fir/oak channels that you just used as guide rails, complete with the 75mm round ball stones. The round ditch was also filled with water to facilitate positioning before erecting them. But I'm a cabinet maker. Just something to chew on. Great documentary.
I would also like to interject my take on the Summer and Winter solstices, but relative to the alignment of the great Pyramid. With polished limestone on each face, this would reflect our Suns' light in a triangular shape at a specific angle and a specific location into space. Much like a lighthouse would. Again, Thanks for the Great documentary.
Thank you for this great documentary. Hope to see a few more like this.
Despite the excess of adverts - although by today's sorry standards these are relatively few and mercifully brief - this is a good narrative, well spoken and thoughtfully researched giving a good informative and comprehensive scientific account of this famously enigmatic monument's origins. PBS mostly does a very good job... no hype, no myopic traditions aired here. Congratulations and thanks.
I love Nova for exactly this kind of well-researched but still accessible material. While I do enjoy deeper university lectures about such subjects they can sometimes be a bit dry, so it's also very nice to have something more easy-going like this here. Great stuff.
I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of this program. fascinating insights and discoveries, thank you for producing and a huge thanks to all the researchers and students that made this effort work!
I drive past here on a regular basis to get my food shop it’s insane to think people travel all over the world to see these rocks
I think it's the power energy of the ancient past that these monoliths represent, that makes people travel the World to stood in front of...IN AWE.
Typo error. Stand in front of.
Lol yeah it is,I grew up near stone henge and still live near by,I remember when the uni went they let us watch them doing the experiments
Ya, I came from the other side of the world in 2011-2012 just to see these rocks. The computer screensavers really made me want to see that place.
@@phoenixkb134 Are you an energy seeker? Got the answer for you: EVERYTHING IS FORMED OF ENERGY.
Well, for a American production that was well done I thought! Much of the footage has been on UK TV off and on but it was well presented here as a whole :) ……thank you.
Adverts every few minutes. I'm afraid I've given up with this. Sadly there's far too many adverts on UA-cam these days.
Yes, it spoils every single program!!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Hey come back there are no ads now.
If you have VPN, just go to another country. I’m in Albany now. no advertising at all. But I also like to go to other countries to watch their advertisements. In most countries there is less than in the USA. Greetings from The Netherlands
UA-cam Vanced is still alive for mobile. No ads at all.
Pay for UA-cam. I have Premium and there are no adds 😊
By not skipping adverts is my way of saying thank you for sharing this great research for us.
I visited Stonehenge way back in 2012 and it was really monumental, thinking it was made around 3000 BC. I feel privileged to have seen these stones.
In the late 19th century Stonehenge was opened as a type of quarry where the landowner hired hammers and chisels to paying guests to break and tranport away as much as they required at a price. The site was finally prototected, but a huge amount has been broken up and carried away and lost. Access to the monumement was, in the 50s fully accessible and as children we played on the stones, thinking it a very magical and mysterious place.
I went to Stonehenge as a kid in the 70’s. We were the only people there. Climbed on the stones, jumped off, messed around and went home. I drive past today and there’s hundreds of people kept away from the stones moving in a circle around it. I think, where the hell do they all come from ? What made them all suddenly interested in these stones? Nobody gave a dam when I was little 😂😂
This was awesome
nice story , i really loved it
EXCELLENT DOCUMENTARY VERY GOOD CHEERS
Stonehenge may also be part of the ancient beliefs of holed stones having healing properties. A form of a healing centre for the sick. Holed stones were often used by ancient people with ailments to pass through the hole of any large stone, believing they would be healed like a rebirth. Comparing it to the natural birth of an infant. Much like entrances of ancient churches of Ireland, Scotland and other places that were considered obscene because of symbolic carvings that have long since been removed.
Very interesting indeed 👌
Wow I love this kind of places 🥰😍😍😍
Good documentary, with fairly plausible definitions and interpretations, evolving to shape the evidence. Pitts and Pearson are like the Neolithic chieftains of Stonehenge archaeology.
The plaque is a gift from the past🤯
Winter in Britain, very little to do 🤔 I've often wondered if the stones were moved when the ground was frozen 🤔 water onto ice would enable a smooth surface for dragging with alot less effort ❄️🥶💪
used to able to walk among the stones when i was a boy in england
Yeh my dad took me many times don’t think you could do the today👍
Refreshing
Magical , been in Stonehenge around 10 years ago , lucky me I live in London 😁
Here in south korea you can find also Stonehenge it composed of huge scattered stones with a giant flat stone believed to be the altar .Koreans believed it's a cemetery during stone age.
i learnt this at school
so i wanted to learn more
amazing
If PBS was funded, like the BBC in the UK, it would be the best Public Broadcasting Service in the world!
Beautiful🎉
Thanks for 'NO WARNING' of flashing images .. The old movie effect strobes so needed to turn away.
Indeed, #Stonehenge is a great marvelous ancient monument from Archaeologist, Astrologist, Anthropologist, Mystics, Civil Engineers, Druids, Astronomist, Masons, Theologist, Philosophers, Architects and Gnostics . . .
The question is what the hell is it?
@@mrdarren1045 It certainly is not hell.
@@Foxglove963 you're probably right
😂 All those people to build it but you/we still don't know what it is.
There’s even earlier structures at the site, three very large pits in a line which possibly held up wooden poles. If you ever visit the site, look for the three large circles painted in the parking lot. People might not even notice if they don’t know to look for them.
Car park please, old fruit.
We use the Queen's English here you know...
I shall look for those the next time that I drive past there.
Thank you.
@@shiveringsand “Old fruit?” I’ll have to remember that one 😂.
Stonehenge looks great would like to go there one day as any one seen the mini Stonehenge in Masham ripon North Yorkshire its a nice little place
Nice documentary
Outstanding - very informative and engaging
The builders of Stonehenge had only one goal to make people proud of their achievement for the rest of the world.
The ancient people are really something,, thanks God their craftmanship lasted a century.. Imagine the stones are so heavy
Best Stonehenge doco I have yet 2 see, could they not lay all the bone fragments out and scan them then let the computer software reconstruct the fragments ?
no
WOW AMAZING DOCUMENTARY GUYS 😊 THAT BALL BARING TRANSPORT TECHNIQUE BLEW MY MIND. KIND REGARDS BEN FROM NZ
I still like the Ball-bearing method of transport, no matter what the mod Archeologists say. I think it's possible, and was the precursor to the wheel for that society
Some rather old footage - that road no longer runs so close by to the monument it was buried about 10 years ago. More up-to-date research has revealed that there were 100s of barrows/tumuli and henges scattered all around the site surrounding Stonehenge.
It is in this area that 300 kings and chieftains were murdered in a peace conference that is remembered as 'the night of the long knives'. Their burial sight is in the surrounding area of Stonehenge.
There was hardly 300 Kings. More like 300 nobles with a handful of royalty.
[ facepalms ]
@@joa8227 it's real title is the treason of the long knives
23:10 Cheating!
No! Not allowed!!! So the theory becomes dismissed instantly! How did they get the stones on the platform? Let alone without crushing/breaking the platform?
Ramp. No lifting. Simple machines and Oxen or animal power. The team only used two runners, where they could have used 4 for the distribution of weight.
If only we could draw on here...I still think it's possible. God forbid a person to use their imagination!
How interesting to view the Stone Age as communal and before humans got wrapped up with personal wealth
Loved the photo bombing goat.
Interesting - but although the stone bearings are plausible the oak track would be difficult without machining...
I was fortunate to be amongst the 10 to 50 thousand freaks , mystics , punks , day trippers , acid trippers , lost soccer supporters etc whom enjoyed the annual Summer Solstice Free Festival which was held over about week since the early 1970s until its prevention by Mrs Thatchers’ orders in 1985. Fantastic .
It puzzles me how folks in those days whom apparently only lived in tribes or family groups managed such a long - distance logistical feat such as this . ( the organisation & construction of the henge - not the festival ) For a race of folk whom lived in mud huts they certainly had some nifty techniques when construction of massive stone monoliths from quarries across the sea or 100 miles beyond the mountains became necessary . Maybe they combined smoke signals with herds of diplodocus 😁❤️🐢
They built something that had never been built before, except for the Cromeleque dos Almendres in Portugal which was 2000 years old when this was built.
Stonehenge is far older than we are being told, and the site was occupied by other people of a later age.
Interesting
So they brought all them giant stones from wales, 150 miles away? that's mind blowing. it would be nice if it was reconstructed back to how it used to be.
Even in our place, there are stone a giant stone that is just impossible for human being to carry . What we heard is that, there's some supernatural, some kind of power which help them carry them.
I visited there in Feb 2023 , Heard the story about Stonehenge is very embarrassing..I am really enjoyed
Bones were reburied. Very good. Let the dead rest in peace.
This is certainly one opinion. Whether it carries weight or not is a long conversation. And one of many to be had today regarding the many opinions of experts.
Is this a rerun? I saw another doc featuring the same head archeologist who revealed that the blue stones had been part of a stone circle in Wales and that they were moved when the people moved to where they are now.
TimeTeam did a special episode with the same man, very similar to this.
No, it's more information added on. Last time the main Archeologist only had theories about the surrounding areas of Stonehenge. Now they have proof.
UP in Scotland they used Kelp to move their stones for circles
And they are older than stone henge
@@stewartjones2370 Amazing to think that stone monoliths started way north of stone henge
I seen a documentary where they dug Stonehenge up and moved the stones along time ago
I have heard that these two circles are both part of a super structure - as a ring of post holes have been found encircling both henges....more to come I hope.
Replicas are based on physical theories and they didn't consider the mental capabilities that were used backed then. Power of the mind.
Huge logs were placed on top of the lintels in such a way so as to build/ create a wigwam or yuart. It was a shelter for giant people of the past!
What I find frustrating is that nobody appears to question why the lintels had tongue and grooves to fit together and ball and sockets to fit on the up rights. These would serve to lock the whole structure together but why? .. The only reason I can think of is that the uprights were freestanding at the time the lintels were placed on top this would then hold the uprights in place while the bases were secured so keeping the whole structure's shape exactly. The only way to place the lintels on top like this is to lower them and yes I know "Imposable they didn't have that technology" but look at Stonehenge everything about it goes against technology of the time and so must have been the construction methods used. If you still think the uprights were stood and secured first then the lintels would not need tongue and grooves and ball and sockets to stay in place look at other ancient structures around the would that still stand today where stone is just placed on top of stone. Plus it would have made construction far simpler. However you look at it the tongue and grooves and ball and sockets are so radical for the time their importance is being grossly undervalued.
How dare those Neolithic people think in modern terms! The shame!!!🤣🤣😁🍻
Stonehenge, the last circle revealed
For more information,,, visit of the detectif astral from Indonesia,,, they allready exploration from other dimension about the stonehenge story
Its ritual importance is related to the fact that Stonehenge was located where the River Avon meets the sea. The sea level was once at about 90 meters. They demarked the shoreline in a peculiar way that allows you to see it very clearly in satellite images. Once you see it, you will not believe your eyes. There is not a single inch of this land which is not formed by human hands, there are massive harbors and cities. They must have had a fleet of thousands of ships. All those scattered stones make sense when you see where they are in relation to the water. All the islands where densely populated.
Could you date all this research please?
Ball Bearings: Russia's Thunder Stone move!
A sphere on a plane surface is a point load.
I'd imagine they would wait for the ice to form before they moved boulders
Theories!!!
#Fact⬆️
It's just a thought but I remember seeing a documentary about an excavation on a Norfolk beach where they found a neolithic wooden structure in the form of a circle and the centre was a tree that had been turned upside down and the roots must have formed a canopy.
Could the 'Woodhenge' have the same feature and instead of wooden posts have trees embedded upside down their roots as a canopy? It certainly would have looked far more impressive than wooden posts and it probably could have some ritual significance?
If I recall properly, they found the remains of a woodhenge near Stonehenge. It also has an alignment with the sun.
Yyggdrasil...the Norse tree that connects all realms...
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@@Eowyn3Pride l0l thats just myth
@Eowyn's Pride how the fig do you pronounce that?
Maybe they moved the stones via the water as it joins up with the river and there was a trench dug. Also thought Stonehenge itself may have been used as a funeral pyre at one point. Perhaps when the ground was frozen they stored their dead there, and when it thawed they could bury them, as it seems even after being cremated they were still buried.
What people don't realise is that this entire structure is not how it originally stood untouched. It was taken down and put back in 1958, repairs made with concrete and steal to hold up the stones.
Thanks for sharing ❤ stay blessed you all the team who are working such unique work. Great to watch. I am a Social Science Teacher and I like your research work.
But how do they make the stones and from where?
Nice archaeological try to "unravel" the ancient history of magnificent feats of human ingenuity, but ends just in unresolved hypothesis and speculations!
"WE SPECULATE" aka "WE GUESS" as we are not thinking they are flucking with our minds. I am amazed the Romans did not take it apart.
For what purpose? The Romans had a policy of not getting involved in religious matters. The exception they made was the druids cause they didn't like their practice of human sacrifice
Stonehenge should be moves to Limpopo South Africa. Maybe rebuilt at the entrance of a big Casino.
A landing pad for space ships
So close to the real motives..... the birth of metal age.... the start of the road to the modern era...🤨✌️
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Isn't there lay lines under stonehinge ?
Scarab beetle..😂
I keep feeling like there was a roof on it, like made of straw or something. Quite interesting doc.
Yes, I keep thinking that also. A great thatched roof or something...a church or hall or temple. It would make the sunlight inside more dramatic
Stonehenge is a 4 dimension portal the ancient build for their dead to cross over
I live a mile away from Stonehendge and never actually visited the stones. Sometimes, I feel a bit disrespectful given people travel the globe just to see them!! 😂😂
If Stonehenge builders were so ingenious engineers, why didn't they just cut the large stones in the quarry into carriable little ones, transport them, then rebuild them on site? This isn't even engineering, it's simply common sense.
There are bodies deep down under the center of the monument about 20 feet
This is all years out of date now. The first to stones were natural and aligned.
Who built it? How was it built? And Hawaii … 😂😂😂. I always chuckle when I hear the different ways people (want to perfectly) say the word, “why”
Largely erected in Wales and then moved to its current site years later. An article in the national press said teeth found nearby also show by dendrology that the human they belonged to came from the West Wales area. It suggests a common Brythonic Cymric language, the forerunner of modern Welsh, was used all over Britain. It is interesting to note that by the time of the Roman invasion, the south Wales tribe the Silures were regarded as the shock troops of Britain, the toughest fighters in the land. They fought the Romans for thirty years, carrying on warfare even after the capture of their leader, Caradoc, for a decade. Perhaps the human remains came from the royal lineage of the Silures and other notable British tribes.
You are confused. The large sarsen stones came from Wiltshire, the so called smaller blue stones came from the Prescelly (Preseli) mountains in Wales.
No confusion here. As I said, it was largely erected in Wales, not far from the Prescelly mountains. It was removed from there years later and re erected in its current position. Key blue stones have been shown to exactly fit the holes left in Wales. Sandstone sarsens came from nearby in Wiltshire.
The explanation for the Blue stones is very interesting. Indian hill tribe 'Irula' put one stone collected from the river in their sacred place on behalf of the dead ones
Alô! Permitam legendas traduzidas ao PT-BR. Agradecerei caso aconteça.
It's known that Stonehenge began as a wooden henge, and was modified a few times over the coming millennia, as opposed to starting with the Blue Stones. Also, the Sarsens are not Local Sandstone, they were rocks deposited by Glaciers about 15 to 20 miles north.
I thought woodhenge was a different site near to stonehenge
@@squirrel7t7 Yes, it is a separate site. Stonehenge began as a wooden henge too
@@oldieman730 what’s your source? Because right now it’s all guess work
@@HERBO_17 A variety of UA-cam videos by historians and archaeologists.. about 2 years ago.
That's total nonsense. You believe glaciers formed rectangular sarsens all of the same length.The place where the sarsens were transported from has been found, (yes, there's literal proof!) the stones were smoothed and fitted with tendons and put upright. Or do you think the glaciers put the stones in a circle? And why is it a circle? Think about it!