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And before you ask, putting some stones in a circle in your garden is not the same thing – although do feel free to create Pebblehenge if you feel like it. Just don’t spend hundreds of years doing it or you’ll be late for school.
The people in charge of rituals and ceremonies may have
been shamans. People believed shamans could see the future and communicate with the spirits controlling nature through animals – and even become AnImAlS! So if you see some guy chatting to a hedgehog or suddenly changing into a wOrM, chances are you’ve just seen a shaman in action!
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Doyoueverwish . . .
you could build something really cool in your garden?
How about a massive stone circle that takes thousands of people hundreds of years to build? Will that do? That’s what a gang of people started to do 5,000 years ago.
To begin with, the circle at what would become Stonehenge, at Salisbury Plain, England, was just a round ditch inside a
clay bank. Within the ditch was a ring of
56 timber or stone posts. But around 4,500 years ago, enormous stone blocks were brought in from as far off as the Preseli Hills in Wales, which are 250 kilometres away.
The largest stones weigh 25–30 tonnes, which even Big Barry Gruntpole from Class 6B probably couldn’t lift. It’s thought they were carried in boats and hauled over land.
To pull these stones upright, a sloping-sided hole was dug, and the rock was hauled up using ropes and a wooden A-shaped frame. The BiG question is, what was it for? Some think it was used to study the movements of the sun and moon, while others believe it was for funerals or that it was a place of healing. Or perhaps the Stone Age folk just rEaLlY liked circles.
Whatever it was for, there’s no doubt it was an incredibly sacred, special place.
Gods and religion