Stonehenge under scrutiny
The megalithic sites such as Stonehenge invoke a completely different time-line . People have been building, developing and using the structure for about 2,500 years. This is 1000 years longer than the written history of our civilization. They have buried their ancestors around for about 2000 year. Our oldest cemeteries are no older than 200 years . Our oldest buildings survive less than 500 years. What does it mean? Are we the superior ones to those ' primitives '? Of course, we are simply different, based on the ever-changing demands of the economy. We pay less attention to the flow of time as the ancients did, as well. We don't need it as much, operating on a completely different mindset. Stonehenge built begun almost 5,000 years ago with a ditch and earth bank. Next was the circle of bluestones , that one hardly notices because they seem like a cripple from the big megaliths. The bluestones were brought from the Preseli hills in west Wales. The big sarsen stones th