Stonehenge: The Original University

by Neil L. Thomas

Stonehenge the Original University is about archaeology and anthropology, not the prosaic kind about bits of broken pottery and primitive savages clothed in fur skins, it is about people given the gift of imagination and creative thought. History is history, prehistory is often thought of as the time when writing was unknown; a simplistic attitude by those who have not learnt to read the story, an attitude that belittles our forebear’s skills forming a record in a readable form. “Stonehenge the Original University ” concerns the sea-linked peoples of prehistoric Brython and north-west Europe whose “Old People” are seen to have thought about life and its problems more than five thousand years ago. They created artefacts and monuments in their own time, memorials made so we could understand their thinking and demonstrated mathematical skills combined with astronomical knowledge. Every part of Stonehenge; the sarsen columns and bluestone pillars, the numbers and spacings, the Avenue, all are accounted for in terms of ten progressive arithmetic number series items; each value from one, two, three, five, eight, thirteen all through to 89. Of major importance are fully detailed accounts of the Stonehenge Sun and Moon calendars, all a millennium before Babylonian astronomers. Five day weeks and sixteen months a year endured for four millennia until the Romans and their Empire arrived in ancient Britain. “Very convincing, a major contribution” Monash University Review “Brilliant” ‘The Age’ Melbourne

14 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 8, 2020