[Stones] Ian Honeywood (Stonedowser)

[Ric]

about 6000 years ago the Sahara dried out - it had been savannah, and megaliths and rock art are constantly coming to light here: peoples would have been on the move with their megalith / alignment knowledge - who knows to where?
   
  http://www.homestead.com/wysinger/nabtaplaya.html

belshade <belshade at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
        

    v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}  o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}  w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}  .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}                Interesting comment David, on climate deterioration between say 3000 and 1000 BC. At some point in that period a real era of global (?) cooling seems to have occurred. You mention Santorini. Another culprit was Hekla in Iceland. According to the dendrochronologists (like Prof. Mike Baillie) Santorini/Thera went up in 1628 BC and there were 2 eruptions of Hekla within the period in question - in 2345 and 1159 BC. Of the two, Hekla would have had a more devastating effect on the British Isles than Santorini. 
   
  Archaeologists have found evidence of Neolithic period cultivation under peat bogs in Ireland and Scotland – I think possibly Dartmoor too. Increasing rain and cold forced farmers to move off the plains and to clear the less profitable but better drained upland slopes. 
   
  It is a fascinating topic. Hekla events could have forced a southward migration of northern peoples while Santorini/Hekla could have driven some Mediterranean peoples northwards in search of a new home. 
   
  There would seem to be a possibility that Middle Eastern deserts could have developed some time during this period as the rains shifted and some farmers from those areas migrated to Northern Europe.  Certainly the builders and users of the British stone monuments would have been affected and new ideas and styles would have emerged. 
   
  Anyone got any ideas on this theme? 
   
  Desmond. 

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