The key to working out Stonehenge’s actual purpose, according to Colin Berry, is understanding the relationship between Britain’s indigenous inhabitants and the monument’s builders, who arrived from across the Mediterranean millennia ago.
The discovery of the remains of an ancient stone circle in Wales has led some scientists to believe Stonehenge – outside Salisbury – was originally built there, with notable archaeologist Prof. Mike Parker Pearson theorising that the stones that comprised that structure as we know it today were brought as cultural “crown jewels” by people travelling east. However, a retired scientist and academic named Colin Berry suggests Stone Henge was built for a different purpose, the Daily Express reports.
According to the newspaper, Berry complained about how “thinking has remained not just influenced, not just dominated, but ensnared by William Stukeley’s solstice orientation celebration idea in 1740,” which resulted in “rival theories” gaining relatively little attention.
Noting how his own hypothesis is “absurdly simple yet gets scarcely any mention,” Berry reportedly argued that the key to understanding Stonehenge’s lies in the fact that the monument’s ancient builders descended from Anatolia and had to contend with Britain’s indigenous inhabitants when they arrived on the island thousands of years ago.
The scholar suggested that the original Stonehenge, along with nearby “precursor sites,” was designed to “provide an immediate refuge for farmers working away from home against enemy arrows raining down in spasmodic and surprise attack.”
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