Blog-05 Stonehenge Abandoned

Archaeology has left us with a conundrum. At some point in history, Stonehenge was abandoned. Its adjacent town on the river was abandoned. People left, never to return in significant numbers. Since this was before recorded history, no one knows why. Archaeologists only know there are no skeletal remains of warfare.

The problem is that we also don’t know when this happened.

Yes, we do have radiocarbon dates. However, that presents us with a different conundrum. Older radiocarbon dates cannot be trusted. The issue is that the older dating techniques depended on an assumption: that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere remained stable.

That assumption proved to be false.

We now know that the atmosphere has not remained stable, so all older dates determined during the time of that assumption should be adjusted. But PHDs are not awarded for technician-level work, and technicians earn their money by working on current PHD thesis work. The result is that, for older work, you cannot trust the accuracy of the dating techniques.

The older, original dates for the abandonment of Stonehenge were 1600-1650 BCE. However, we now know that those dates need adjusting by “approximately” a century. That puts the best current dating for the Stonehenge abandonment to 1700-1750 BCE.

That puts the abandonment of Stonehenge during the lifetime of Abraham.

A coincidence?