Temples of Stone

[1798]

Some time around 6,000 years ago, the members of a now long-forgotten tribe dragged and lifted carefully chosen stones into place and built Ireland’s first “Temple of Stone”. Over the next 2,000 years, hundreds more megalithic tombs were built across the country and then, around 2,000 BC, the building stopped and the knowledge of what these remarkable stone structures meant to their builders was lost.

This is from the book "Temples of Stone" by Dr.Carleton Jones.
The answer to Irelands dna lies under these monuments. The Irish Diaspora could loby the Goverment here in Ireland to allow the excavation and testing of the skeletal remains that are in these ancient grave sites.

[Pincera]

Looks to be a good book I might purchase a copy, when I went to Newgrange I was completely surprised by how large the site was, I had expected a burial mound like the long barrows in England but Newgrange was on a completely different scale. Newgrange was constructed over 5,000 years ago (about 3,200 B.C.), making it older than Stonehenge in England and the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.

Putting aside the monument itself the organisation and infrastructure that must have been needed just to support the people who built it, is breath-taking.

I wonder what the DNA of the builders of these Neolithic monuments could tell us?

[1798]

Looks to be a good book I might purchase a copy, when I went to Newgrange I was completely surprised by how large the site was, I had expected a burial mound like the long barrows in England but Newgrange was on a completely different scale. Newgrange was constructed over 5,000 years ago (about 3,200 B.C.), making it older than Stonehenge in England and the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.

Putting aside the monument itself the organisation and infrastructure that must have been needed just to support the people who built it, is breath-taking.

I wonder what the DNA of the builders of these Neolithic monuments could tell us?

It would tell us who built them.

[Pincera]

It would tell us who built them.

Providing that the people that built them share the same DNA as the people who are buried in them, I wonder if the DNA of Pharaoh's would provide a fair representation of the builders of the pyramids!

[1798]

Providing that the people that built them share the same DNA as the people who are buried in them, I wonder if the DNA of Pharaoh's would provide a fair representation of the builders of the pyramids!

It is suspected that the large Irish passage graves were built for the elites of over twenty separate territories.
"Irelands Other History" by Hector McDonnell

[1798]

Details of the “first passage-tomb to be discovered in in Boyne Valley in 200 years” have been reported in the Sept 7 edition of the Meath Chronicle. It was discovered by the Heritage Council Funded ‘Boyne Valley Landscapes Project’, a collaborative research project led by researchers from University College Dublin (Dr Stephen Davis and Dr Will Megarry) and Dundalk Institute of Technology (Dr Conor Brady).
The newly discovered passage-tomb, on the floodplain of the Boyne southwest of Newgrange, had showed up in the lidar surface as a low rise, a mere 25cm high and 30m across, surrounded by a barely visible enclosure 130m in diameter. The site was originally designated LP2 (Low Profile) by the research team, but is now recorded as an embanked enclosure (the Irish equivalent to a henge monument), SMR no. ME019-094.
Geophysical survey using magnetic gradiometry and resistivity was then carried out, and confirmed the weakly defined outer enclosure in addition to a distinct passage/chamber arrangement, with the passage aligned towards the north-northeast on the Newgrange ridge.
Archaeologists have been excited about the central mound, which they said “appears to show a clear passage and chamber arrangement with splayed terminals at the NNE. The central mound is clearly identifiable and measures c. 30m in diameter. This strongly suggests that the feature represents a hitherto unknown passage tomb.”
The lidar survey also revealed a wealth of other new monuments and possible monuments (in excess of 65), including previously unrecorded embanked enclosures at Carranstown, Co. Meath and in Dowth townland.
With three henges/embanked enclosures and the remarkable images of the chamber and passage these discoveries rewrite the narrative of Brú na Bóinne, and demonstrate the huge potential of lidar in both archaeological prospection and landscape archaeology.