henge monuments
Russian translation: памятники хендж
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| 3 +3 | памятник-котлован, памятник-кратер, хендж |
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peer agreement (net): +3памятник-котлован, памятник-кратер, хендж Explanation: возможные переводы - памятник-котлован, памятник-кратер, хендж What is a henge? A henge is a roughly circular or oval-shaped flat area enclosed and delimited by a boundary earthwork - usually a ditch with an external bank. HENGE Definition: Circular or sub-circular enclosure defined by a bank and (usually internal) ditch, with one or two (rarely more) entrances. Of ceremonial/ritual function, they contain a variety of internal features including timber or stone circles. Definition: A henge is the term given to a large prehistoric earthwork, usually but not always circular, whether of stones, wood, or earth. This word, interestingly, is a back-formation from Stonehenge. Stonehenge was the Saxon name for the famous monument on the Salisbury plain, and the "henge" part is Old English for "hang," not earthwork. Nonetheless, the term henge is in wide use in both popular and scientific literature to refer to megalithic monuments of the Neolithic and Bronze ages. http://archaeology.about.com/library/glossary/bldef_henge.ht... Reference: http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/henge.htm sine.ncl.ac.uk/ term_definitions.asp?thesaurus_code=ty&term_id=442 |
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