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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: The Antiquity of "Christmas"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.202742.2847@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
- References: <1992Dec23.205941.3133@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:27:42 GMT
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- tratclif@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Tracy Ratcliff) writes:
- : In article <1992Dec23.084010.3782@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- : >lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
- : >:
- : >: The age of these monuments -- _at least_ 4000-5000 years (I
- : >: don't recall precise figures), typically, which is a lot longer ago
- : >: than when Jesus Christ lived.
- : >
- : >If I recall correctly, the structures (such as Stonehenge) were started
- : >about 1000 BCE - maybe a bit earlier.
- : >
- : I _could_ make a quick dash to the bedroom to get the actual references, but,
- : naaah, I'll be like most everyone on the net and just pop off...
- :
- : From memory, Stonehenge was a later structure (ca. 1500 BCE?) but many
- : megalithic structures in Western Europe predate the pyramids, 3000 BCE give
- : or take a few centuries.
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- I believe the comment was in reference to structures with polar alignments.
- To the best of my recollection - 1000 to 1500 BCE was the earliest for these.
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- Such things as cromlechs preceeded this period - but none of them had any
- real alignment.
-
- Bill
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