2015-08-26 BBC:巨石阵行动:被埋藏的秘密-19(在线收听) |
-Here we are at the bottom of one of the shafts. It's a lot darker than it would have been in the Neolithic, because at moment there's a modern concrete cover just to protect the archaeology. The devision that would be open to sky, so the sun would be coming in, and water around us and white chalk could have been reflecting that light, bouncing off the walls and extending out into the excavation space beyond. Each one of the 450 shafts e* the surface would have been like this, this particular one descending 12.5 meters down to the solid chalk. Quite an achievement, when you think that the people excavating this were using stone and bone tools. This would take months to excavate out down.Once the miners reached the floor stored flint, they dug horizontal galleries, following the rich scenes. -The galleries are extremely restricted insides, so I think we're probably seeing some of the younger, slighter elements of the society who would have engaged in the actually constructing process. |
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