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StonehengeView in Winter Bronze Age (c. 2000 BCE) |
The mysteries of the Bronze
Age provoke contemporary minds
to unlock the intricacies
of its cultural arrangements --
whether lingual, visual, calendrical,
or cosmological.
What appear now to us to be
abstract systems, nonetheless,
form the basis for the fundamental
questions we ask
when attempting to understand
distant civilizations.
Perhaps one of the most useful clues that a vanished culture could leave behind is the remnant of a physical structure. We are most fortunate to have such a remain in the central southern region of England, where the simply arranged and undecorated ruin of a single stone building endures as testimony to a society which is not. |