What was behind this project?
What a find! On the territory of the archaeological complex Darrington Walls, located three kilometers northeast of Stonehenge in Great Britain, archaeologists have discovered the remains of a truly gigantic (500 meters in diameter!) Circle of pillars - not stone, but wooden …
Scientists have found that the huge wooden circle for some reason was never completed. A few years after the start of construction in society, there have been powerful religious and, possibly, political shifts, researchers suggest. Although there is very little time left for completion, work has stopped. Giant wooden pillars (6-7 meters long and 60-70 centimeters in diameter) were pulled out of the holes (1.5 meters deep) and used to expand other elements of the complex.
Moreover, a few years later the pits themselves were specially covered with chalk fragments. Under a layer of this material in one of the pits, scientists found one of the tools (a shovel made of cow bone) - apparently, it was thrown into the pit during a ritual that marked the closure of the "project". That is, the builders tried in this way to consign the past to oblivion. It remains unclear whether they destroyed their own creation or the construction of another group of ancient people.
It is noteworthy that this shift took place at about the same time as the restructuring of Stonehenge itself: from a wide circle with low stones to a narrow one with high ones. In the same era, Europe's largest mound, Silberry Hill (39 meters high), was built. Archaeologists associate these changes with the emergence of the bell-beaker culture in Britain and the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.
And we already know that the beginning of the “Bronze Age” is a new attempt by the civilization of the “gods” to sort of “restart” the human project and give it a new impetus for development - with specific goals and objectives … rejection of wooden structures - including a technological breakthrough. We can recall the legendary Arkaim, where ritual buildings on a large scale were also made of wood, that improvised material that people of that time knew how to use …
This is the following short video on the topic: