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Stonehenge Deciphered — Interview with Alun G Rees at the Red Lion, Avebury

🌿 More writing & fieldwork plus detailed review of Stonehenge Deciphered: https://www.stonetemplegardening.com 📕 Book discussed: https://www.shortifylink.in/82cdf Topics covered include the seaborne transport of the Preseli bluestones; acoustic and optical properties of stone; Bush Barrow, Clandon and Upton Lovell geometry; 360-degree conceptual thinking; long-distance knowledge pathways; ancient trade networks; Blick Mead and Mesolithic memory; Winterbourne chieftains and movement; and the relationship between story, evidence, and interpretation in archaeology. 00:00 Introduction 01:21 Early influences 04:10 The bluestones at Stonehenge 12:05 Archaeoacoustics of the bluestones 18:06 The three golden protractors of Stonehenge 23:40 Metallurgical connections from Stonehenge to Nebra via Cornwall 25:10 Ancient geometry and the Anatolian connection 26:45 The Nebra Sky Disc and the golden protractors 27:45 The Saros cycle and predicting lunar eclipses 29:15 The Altar Stone and the observation of the Moon 30:43 Putting flesh on the bones: human stories of Stonehenge 32:58 The original builders’ connections to Preseli, Wales 38:30 The King of Stonehenge and the Upton Lovell shaman 41:00 The Neolithic son et lumière at Stonehenge 42:00 Speaking to the Bush Barrow Giant Stonehenge may be Britain’s most studied monument, yet new voices still teach us how to see it differently. In this wide-ranging conversation, author and journalist Alun G. Rees discusses his book *Stonehenge Deciphered*, a re-evaluation of the ancient henge and the wider ceremonial landscapes of Wessex, Preseli, and beyond. Rees neither parrots academic orthodoxy nor indulges fantasy. Instead, he follows stone, craft, story, and evidence to propose a more interconnected Neolithic world—one in which people, materials, and ideas travelled far more freely than we often assume. Rees proposes a practical, tidally assisted seaborne route for the Preseli bluestones, highlighting not only logistics but the sensory qualities of the stones themselves: resonance, mica-flash under solstitial light, and their possible role as acoustic and symbolic instruments. He also re-examines Wessex gold artefacts such as the Bush Barrow Lozenge, the Clandon Lozenge, and the Upton Lovell Button, treating them not as ornaments but as instruments of thought. Working with young mathematicians, he suggests these objects may encode geometric principles, possibly even a 360-degree conceptual circle. Rather than arguing for colonisation from the Near East, Rees proposes that mathematical and symbolic knowledge may have travelled westward along the same trade routes that carried gold, amber, jet, and stone—challenging the idea of a culturally isolated Neolithic Britain. Above all, Rees reminds us that archaeology is not merely forensic; it is human. Evidence must be interpreted, data woven into story. The people who built Stonehenge were not simple pastoralists, but intellectually curious, technically skilled, and symbolically literate agents navigating complex worlds of meaning. Whether or not one accepts all of his conclusions, Stonehenge Deciphered makes Stonehenge feel new again. 📍 Filmed at The Red Lion, Avebury, at the heart of Britain’s sacred landscape. Part of the Stone Temple Gardening project. 🎵 Stone Temple Gardening logo music: Meditation and Relaxing Chill by Ivy Music (Pixabay licence) 🔔 Subscribe for long-form conversations on Neolithic monuments, archaeoastronomy, and prehistoric landscapes. #stonehenge #avebury #AlunGRees #StonehengeDeciphered #PreseliBluestones #archaeology #prehistoric #britain #neolithicbritain #megaliths #ancientsites #wiltshire #StoneTempleGardening #AlexanderPeach #mythology #BritishPrehistory