A new set of archaeological discoveries at Stonehenge in Wiltshire which has pushed back habitation at the site by at least another 500 years have reinforced the right of the British people to claim indigenous status on these islands.
Previously, the first stage of the Stonehenge complex was believed to have been constructed around 3000 BC, or 5,000 years ago. Now however, new discoveries by a team from the universities of Birmingham, Bradford and Vienna have made new discoveries at the site using ground-penetrating radar.
While the teams were using the radar systems—which can detect changes in soil composition and thus accurately map out covered-up pits or buried objects—of the ‘Cursus’ which is located near Stonehenge, they discovered two great pits at the Cursus’s ends.
It was always thought that Stonehenge was built after the Cursus, which appeared to be a sort of “gateway” to the more famous standing stones.
Now, however, according to the scientists doing the research, it seems as if the Cursus could not have been built until after Stonehenge.
The newly-discovered pits hold the key to understanding the riddle: When modelled on a computer and compared to Stonehenge, the alignments with sunrise and sunset on the longest day of the year (the summer and winter solstices) are perfect between the two structures.
The chances of this, say the scientists, are “extremely low.”
This means that Stonehenge is older than the Curus, as the latter’s design seems to have been made to align with the centre of Stonehenge.
As old as all this may be, it is still “young” compared to the 8000 BC Mesolithic (‘Middle’ Stone Age) site in what is now Stonehenge’s car park.
These time periods are significant for another reason. All over the world, peoples are recognised as indigenous due to their “native” status, which in turn is linked to the length of time their people have occupied a territory.
In this way, the Maori people of New Zealand are regarded as indigenous and given special status—even though they have only been in New Zealand for 730 years.
The people of Tibet are regarded as the indigenous inhabitants of their land, and under threat from Han Chinese occupation. The Tibetans have only been in Tibet for some 3,000 years.
The American Indians, regarded as the indigenous people of North America, and given special status and reservations to preserve their culture and racial integrity, have only been on that continent for 12,000 years at most.
When the time lengths at Stonehenge and elsewhere in Britain are considered—10,000 years and more—it is obvious that the British people can easily claim indigenous status, and protection from invasion and dispossession in exactly the same way that all other indigenous people do.
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We do not need a 12,000 year old claim to our lands… we need to fight for it!
They also seem to ignore the fact that they have recognised the bronse age mine workings in wales as a world heritage site,and the fact that a skeleton on display in the welsh national museum is cosidered indigenous and 5000 years old
I feel really offended every time I am asked what my ethnicity is in my own country.(Are we allowed to say rhat)?
Why is the book called ‘Four Flags’ if there five on the front cover? I think someone should suggest a new cover or title for the book.
Very interesting. My opinion has been for many years that man is far older then past historians would have us believe. There is a very sound theory and book by Robert Ballard that the Sphinx was built in 10,500 BC and not 2,500 BC as thought. With regard to Britain, a skeleton found in Cheddar caves was dated at being 10,000 years old and amazingly had DNA links with 30% of the people still living in that area of Somerset.
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Like the new name for the website…… Congratulations.
It is only people who do not come from our islands who are trying to remove us. There seems to be a large group running our country who should not be there. I left England 34 years ago to live in Canada and I must admit I have had a lot of comments made to me for being English. I never knew how many people hated us. Oh well I think we are quite nice. We come from hardy stock we will not go down without a fight.
My middle son lives in Flint, although we all come from Chester. Maybe it is time we used our tribal names to tell the world we do exist in our own lands and be recognized there as the First Nations and I do not mean the Crown I mean the people. We then have to put forward land claims for our people and that means no immigrants from Asia, Africa, East Europe, and India. Only our tribes you know, just like the natives here in Canada so we cannot be lost in time, so we will always have our rights to our land.
Well quite Chester.
If things go on like this we will need ‘reservations’ to survive at all as a people.
(Party Member) Yes Mike, we will. It’s called Apartheid! We have it now actually. I call it economic Apartheid which is when better off people flee to parts of the country that have not been ‘enriched’. The only downside is you might have to live next door to a Labour or Liberal MP as they never live in multi-cultural areas themselves!