Comments on: Burial Mounds https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/burial-mounds/ Gardenvisit.com Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:09:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/burial-mounds/#comment-809 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:09:44 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=1747#comment-809 Visually, I find Stonehenge rather a disappointment. But the more you read about it the more interesting it becomes. Archaeologists are unusual people. They do the most cautious, careful and painstaking research. But then they indulge in the wildest flights of interpretative fancy. So I will try and follow their example.
My interpretation is that the burial customs seen around Stonehenge come from Central and West Asia. The stone circle was used for community burials, from the time when ‘the tribe was the thing’ and the mounds, equivalent to kurgans, from a time when ‘the king was the thing’.

There is a great need to re-invent burial customs to reflect our evolutionary understandings of ‘nature’ and ‘society’.

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