Megalithic Sound and Landscape: A research project to investigate whether ancient monuments were built with acoustic effects in mind, and how they related to the landscape around them. (via nutlog)
I’ve heard of similar theories before, and IMO there’s a lot of weight there. Every megalithic monument (well, enclosed ones like caves and barrow graves) in my experience have had great acoustic qualities, and it seems to make sense that in an oral society this would be very important. It’s one of my minor obsessions ;)
BTW, ObIrishness: Newgrange is significantly older than Stonehenge: Newgrange was built around 3200BC, Stonehenge about 1000 years later. na na na nah.
However, Stonehenge is the subject of a rocking Tap tune. More Tap:
Nigel: We saw the film that everyone else saw and we were quite upset because it was not a depiction that was accurate. You see someone like Derek not getting out of the pod. Most nights…
Derek: Every night!
Nigel: Well, 80 percent of the time…
Derek: But you don’t see that.
Nigel: What they choose to show…
David: They chose to show a time when we couldn’t get Derek out of the bloody pod.
Nigel: The night there was some mechanical misfunction and we become the brunt of a joke, and not the smooth act that we really were.
David: Skew, eschew…
Nigel: Basically, it’s all twisted. “Let me go into my little editing room and twist.”
Derek: What do they call that, McCarthyism?
David: It’s called McCarthyism.
Nigel: Charlie McCarthyism.
Derek: I call it DiBergiism.
Nigel: This Is Marty DiBergi should have been the name of the movie.