“Unearthed Secrets: Archaeologists Discover Denmark’s Mysterious 4,000-Year-Old Wooden Ritual Site, Echoing Stonehenge’s Enigma!”
Moreover, though, the Danish Woodhenge hints at a larger, shared belief system prevalent across Neolithic Europe, as the site seems to have a similar axis as the English Stonehenge and Woodhenge.
Wikimedia CommonsThe English Woodhenge in Salisbury is as old as Stonehenge.
“It shows us that they are sharing the same worldviews on large-scale areas on how to be farmers, how society connects with the supernatural,” Wåhlin said. “Building monuments on this scale, you need to understand why and how. If a British person from the time would have come to the site they would have known what they are doing in there.”
Though the purpose of these structures ultimately remains shrouded in mystery, burials at Stonehenge suggest it may have been a place to honor the dead, while an altar found there hints at the site’s possible religious purposes. Likewise, Denmark’s Woodhenge may have served as a place of worship, especially that of the Sun.
But now, experts hope that further research will help unlock the reason why this site was built — and more.
Future Plans To Excavate The Woodhenge Site In Aars
Vesthimmerlands MuseumSidsel Wåhlin, front left, and Andreas Bo Nielsen, right, with fellow Woodhenge excavation team members Jeppe Skovgaard and Julie Baunvig Aagaard.
Now knowing that this is a ritual site, Wåhlin and excavation leader Andreas Bo Nielsen expressed excitement at excavating further. In the surrounding region, they have examined other significant Neolithic sites, including one filled with burial mounds as well as several other settlements from this same period. Their hope is that excavating the Woodhenge site will unearth “burial goods” that shed more light on the people that built it, believed to belong to the Bell Beaker culture.
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