Chapter 6
This archaeologist was the lead archaeologist at Stonehenge in the 1950s. He did make a mistake with the dates of a ramp found at Stonehenge.
Who is Richard Atkinson?
The conclusion drawn after Mike Parker Pearson finds pay dirt which is defined as “black soil filled with animal bones, scraps of pottery, and flint.” (Aronson, 2010, p.39)
What is Mike had clear evidence that people lived, worked, and eaten right there.
Today, some 35,000 people visit Stonehenge on this, the longest day of the year.
What is the summer solstice?
The three great discoveries that helped the new theory of Stonehenge capture the attention of the world.
What are 9 houses, bones, and the true Avenue?
He thought the ancient prehistoric temple where Druid's held ceremonies.
Who is William Stuckeley?
A view or opinion that has not been proven.
What is a theory?
This words best describes Mike Parker Pearson’s emotions when he found the nine houses.
What is satisfying?
Mike and his team said that Stonehenge and The Southern Circle were set, like the gears of this, to work together on the shortest and longest day of the year.
What is a watch?
This was evidence was found near Stonehenge and showed that the placement of Stonehenge was considered important long before the stones were put in place.
What is the Cursus or the antler pick?
This person thought there was buried treasure in the center of Stonehenge. He sent men out to dig it up.
Who is King James I?
This is what Mike said he had hit when he found that 9 houses, bones, and flint. The black soil was called this. Which means any source of success or wealth.
What is "Pay Dirt"?
This is what could benefit from carbon-14 dating.
What are living things?
This circle was found along the riverbank at the end of the avenue to Stonehenge.
What is Bluestonehenge?
"The great stone circle was left to stand on its own, with no processions, no new burials. THE STONES WENT SILENT." What figure of speech is the all caps?
This person thought Stonehenge was a "religious site devoted to the sun where people went to be cured," and "the stones were from Wales because they were believed to have healing properties."
Who is Timothy Darvill?
This was the choice Mike had to make about the theory Ramilisonia said was obvious.
What is "let Ramilisonina's insight fall into silence. Or he could take up the challenge himself"?
"The Riverside Team stripped away the ground cover and saw clear evidence of this. The missing half of the Stonehenge story."
What is "the land of the living"?
By finding the Southern Circle, archaeologist knew now that Stonehenge was not part of what.
What is a much larger environment?
"Mike thinks that the homes he found, and many others, were this; they were covered in dirt when people stopped using the stone circle.
What is deliberately closed down?
He believed he found the ramp used by the ancient people to raise one of the stones.
Who is Richard Atkinson?
Mike finally got word that he could do a tiny dig. But the real test would be IN this.
We heard about Carbon-14 dating, but what other way scientists can learn from bones?
What is Strontium Analysis?
This is where Mike learned that Atkinson had made a mistake, showing that not all of archaeology is digging trenches and ditches.
What is archives and libraries?
"This is a book about Ramilisonina and Mike, but not only about them. Really it is about putting aside what you think you know, what has been passed along, and being willing to "what".
What is trust yourself and your instincts (and test rigorously)?
He believed that the Southern Circle was a place for people to live and gather for feasts and celebrations.
Who is Ramilisonina?