Vol 1 Ep 20 - Megaliths, Part Two ( Stonehenge )

History of the World podcast

Chris Hasler

History

4.8 • 971 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This week's podcast centres around Stonehenge, but in order to try to understand this most famous of megaliths, we discuss the Neolithic wonders of the Orkney Islands and the Carnac Stones of Brittany. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historyoftheworldpodcast/message

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0:27.0	Welcome to the History of the World Podcast. My name is Chris. This is episode 20. Megaliths part 2. Oh, Last week we talked about the emergence of megalithic construction.
1:07.0	We talked about the astonishing site of Gobekly Tepe in modern Turkey and how significant it was, especially in terms of its age
1:18.6	at around 11,000 years old. This told us that megalithic construction emerged at a
1:26.7	similar time and location to agriculture, sedentary lifestyles, metalworking and the construction of permanent villages
1:36.7	where great numbers of people would coexist.
1:40.1	All of these aspects appeared to spread into the European continent from the
1:45.8	fertile crescent with each other so it could be seen as a new and successful way of
1:52.0	living which supplanted earlier societies.
1:57.0	Megalithic culture spread throughout the Mediterranean lands of Europe and from around 5,000 B.C.E. spread northwards as far as the British Isles.
2:09.6	We can see this with the UNESCO World Heritage site of Stonehenge, Avebury and
2:16.9	associated sites which we briefly discussed during the last podcast. In 2017, over 1.5 million people visited the megalithic structure of Stonehenge in the county of Wiltshire in the
2:38.7	modern country of England.
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