{"id":1145,"date":"2022-02-27T19:25:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T19:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.muddyarchaeologist.co.uk\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2022-02-27T22:10:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T22:10:52","slug":"the-world-of-stonehenge-a-journey-through-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.muddyarchaeologist.co.uk\/?p=1145","title":{"rendered":"The World of Stonehenge – A Journey through Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The British Museum’s new World of Stonehenge\u00a0<\/strong>exhibition is a journey through prehistoric eras. The exhibition is not really about Stonehenge at all but about the world at the time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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So here’s a walk through the ages to accompany your\u00a0journey through the exhibition and the amazing finds, making connections en route with how Stonehenge was developing over 1,000 years.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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The story starts as the Ice Ages end,\u00a0 before 9,000 BC<\/span><\/strong> (11,000 years ago).\u00a0 It’s\"\" a\u00a0vibrant world of Mesolithic (Middle\u00a0Stone Age) harpoon-wielding hunter-gatherers<\/span><\/strong> and shamanistic-style connections with<\/span>\u00a0nature. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Meanwhile stone axes are beautifully crafted and exchanged across Europe.\u00a0 This is when the great wooden ‘totem’ poles<\/span> are erected in the Stonehenge landscape.<\/strong>\u00a0 All that remains are the post holes …<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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As farming arrived in Britain by 4,000 BC, the early farmers of the Neolithic settled down<\/span><\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0 They cut down forests and created timber tools with hafted aesthetically gorgeous polished stone axes and they cultivated crops and domesticated animals, first sheep and goats and then cattle which enabled new technology of wheeled carts.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n