Archaeologists search for information about how Stonehenge was built and what that can tell us about the people who built it.Archaeologists search for information about how Stonehenge was built and what that can tell us about the people who built it.Archaeologists search for information about how Stonehenge was built and what that can tell us about the people who built it.
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Too much hype and too little evidence
This is a truly appalling documentary packed with speculation and based on the flimsiest of evidence. Alice Roberts, in spite of her academic background, proves to be the most gullible of presenters. Almost every assumption in the documentary involved vast "interpretative inflation", as was pointed out by some of us while the digs at Waun Mawn were going on. Sadly, since this programme has been shown several times, many thousands of viewers have simply been carried away on a wild goose chase.
The so-called bluestone quarries do not make any sense at all, and there are NO monoliths at Stonehenge made of rhyolite from Rhosyfelin. The evidence of quarrying is hotly disputed, and earth scientists are quite convinced that all of the so-called quarrying traces are natural features. Not a single stone at Stonehenge has been precisely provenanced, in spite of the claims made in this programme. The assumptions about sockets and missing stones made by Prof Parker Pearson were so dodgy that they have been criticised and questioned by all sorts of people including fellow archaeologists Darvill and Pitts. The "alignment" speculations were wildly inaccurate. Stone 62 at Stonehenge came from the far east of Preseli and has nothing to do with Waun Mawn. The monoliths and other scattered rocks at Waun Mawn are all locally derived and have no known matches with Stonehenge. The radiocarbon and other dates tell us nothing about stone circles or Stonehenge. There were no control digs. The presumed circumference of a "giant circle" was never adequately supported by evidence. There is nothing at all at Waun Mawn to demonstrate any link with Stonehenge, and the proto-Stonehenge and "lost circle" propositions are shown to be fantasies. Two recently-published research papers (June 2022) have shown that "proto-Stonehenge" and the "lost circle" are simply fantasies. This documentary, selling dross as if it was gold, should never have been made or transmitted.
The so-called bluestone quarries do not make any sense at all, and there are NO monoliths at Stonehenge made of rhyolite from Rhosyfelin. The evidence of quarrying is hotly disputed, and earth scientists are quite convinced that all of the so-called quarrying traces are natural features. Not a single stone at Stonehenge has been precisely provenanced, in spite of the claims made in this programme. The assumptions about sockets and missing stones made by Prof Parker Pearson were so dodgy that they have been criticised and questioned by all sorts of people including fellow archaeologists Darvill and Pitts. The "alignment" speculations were wildly inaccurate. Stone 62 at Stonehenge came from the far east of Preseli and has nothing to do with Waun Mawn. The monoliths and other scattered rocks at Waun Mawn are all locally derived and have no known matches with Stonehenge. The radiocarbon and other dates tell us nothing about stone circles or Stonehenge. There were no control digs. The presumed circumference of a "giant circle" was never adequately supported by evidence. There is nothing at all at Waun Mawn to demonstrate any link with Stonehenge, and the proto-Stonehenge and "lost circle" propositions are shown to be fantasies. Two recently-published research papers (June 2022) have shown that "proto-Stonehenge" and the "lost circle" are simply fantasies. This documentary, selling dross as if it was gold, should never have been made or transmitted.
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- brianjohn-83250
- Aug 26, 2022
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By what name was Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed (2021) officially released in Canada in English?
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